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  • 1) The Bull on Monument Avenue
  • 2) May Grace Now Lead Them Home
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  • 3) Little Monuments in Grace Park
  • 4) Little Monuments, 1607 – 1861.
  • 5) Little Monuments, 1861 – 1865
  • 6) Little Monuments, 1865 – 1945
  • 7) Little Monuments, 1946 – 2019
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  • 8) Talking About Race
  • 9) Racial Storytelling
  • 10) When I was a Little White Boy
  • 11) Intelligent, Patriotic, Spiritual
  • 12) The Carra Lee Rule
  • HomeWe walk with the Women and Men of our History to our Future …
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  • Newsroom“And that’s the way it is” … … “Good night and good luck.”
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  • Friends & Neighbors 🎧“You wanna go where people know, people are all the same.”
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  • Afterword 🎧“As long as our Lives endure, may Grace now lead them Home”

Category: Classroom

Classroom…

Classrooms in a Network of Learning 🎧

2 Aug 201820 Feb 2019
In schools and universities, community centers and storefronts, throughout our neighborhoods, we will create classes in a network of learning. We’ll list new and existing opportunities here at GraceParkRVA.org along…
Proposed

Book Clubs

4 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
GraceParkRVA.org encourages local book clubs to include books that address issues of racism both current and historical. Five suggestions out of thousands of possible choices: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (unabridged…
Proposed

Race & Religion

4 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
The influence of religion on race cannot be overstated. From the earliest days of Virginia history, religion informed its congregants that Natives and Blacks were -- in the eyes of…
Proposed

Arts about the Avenue

4 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
One way to start a conversation is to use a discussion of Monument Avenue & Grace Park as a platform to tell our own stories and aspirations. In prose &…
Proposed

The History and Influence of Race in Local Politics

4 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
From the days of "whites only" on City Council, the era of white flight and mandatory bussing, splitting Jackson Ward with an interstate highway, at-large mayor and the ward system…
Proposed

Jackson Ward, Harlem of the South

4 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
One stop on the "Neighborhoods of Richmond" tour. An evening that combines a walking tour of the neighborhood (eg. Valentine tour), followed by dinner and a presentation, class, discussion, etc.…
Proposed

The History of the Monuments

4 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
The history of the monuments will make for an interesting topic here in the Grace Park library and as a class presentation. Insofar as possible, we'd like to understand the…
Proposed

Radio, Television, Media & Race

4 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
Revisit the racial stereotypes of yesteryear and examine how these portrayals influence our views on race. How did radio and television's "Amos & Andy" shape our collective perceptions and attitudes?…
Proposed

White Privilege, Affirmative Action

1 Sep 201715 Sep 2017
"What's all this stuff about white privilege? If I had any, I'd know it." A discussion of the history of white privilege; how and why it affects us today.  

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  • Afterword 🎧
  • 1) The Bull on Monument Avenue
  • 2) May Grace Now Lead Them Home
  • ~~
  • 3) Little Monuments in Grace Park
  • 4) Little Monuments, 1607 – 1861.
  • 5) Little Monuments, 1861 – 1865
  • 6) Little Monuments, 1865 – 1945
  • 7) Little Monuments, 1946 – 2019
  • ~~
  • 8) Talking About Race
  • 9) Racial Storytelling
  • 10) When I was a Little White Boy
  • 11) Intelligent, Patriotic, Spiritual
  • 12) The Carra Lee Rule
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