Photographic Credits

With the exception of Jackson Davis’s Dunbar High School photographs, all black-and-white photographs courtesy of The News and Advance. We are most grateful to Nancy Marion for all her help to collect and preserve these historic photographs.

Color photographs: David Myers and Patricia Wild

The January, 1924 photographs of Dunbar High: Papers of Jackson Davis MS 3072, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, from the Albert and Shirley Small Collections Library. We are most grateful to have been given permission to include these photographs on this site.

About Header Photographs (left to right):

1.The “Patterson Six,” arrested for a sit-in at Patterson Drugstore, December, 1960, pray in front of Corporation Courthouse (February 6, 1961). Left to right: Barbara Thomas, Rebecca Owen, Mary Edith Bentley, Terrill Brumback, James Hunter, and Kenneth Greene (in background.)

2. Reverend John Teeter being ejected from Lynchburg’s Corporation Court because he refused to sit in a segregated courtroom (February 6, 1961).

3. The NAACP pickets the F.W. Woolworth’s Five and Ten on Main Street (November, 1960).

4. Rebecca Owen, Kenneth Greene (wearing hat), Mary Edith Bentley, and James Hunter sitting at the Patterson Drugstore lunch counter. (December 14, 1960.)

5. “Krushchev can eat here but we can’t.” Sign held by NAACP member in front of Woolworth’s. (Nikita Khrushchev was prime minister of the Soviet Union.)

6. Crowd leaving courthouse during Patterson Six trial. (February, 1961)

7. Left to right: Civil rights leaders M. W. Thornhill, Jr., W. H. Reynolds, Junius Haskins, Jr., O. C. Cardwell, Mary Payne, and Carl B. Hutcherson, Jr. plan the State Convention of Virginia’s NAACP branches, held in Lynchburg in 1972. In background: Court Street Baptist Church.