Cultivating Education: Lexington’s Black Schools and Churches, 1865-1965
Presented Eric Wilson, for VMI Black History Month
Tuesday, Feb. 20, 8 PM
VMI Preston Library, 5th Floor
In tribute to Black History Month, Rockbridge Historical Society Executive Director Eric Wilson will share a presentation entitled “Cultivating Education: Lexington’s Black Schools and Churches, 1865-1965,” sponsored by the VMI Office of Diversity, Opportunity, & Inclusion.” Free and welcome to all, Wilson’s presentation canvases 100 years – from Emancipation to the height of the Civil Rights Movement — when local schools and churches instilled a “Culture of Education” for Black students in Lexington and across Rockbridge County. Learn more about these distinctive legacies of learning, and reflect on your own histories of “How You Got to School.”