20K views · 291 reactions | There’s so much more to Green Square...

1.9K views · 36 reactions | Dana Angell, prints & photographs collection specialist, shares a little bit about herself and why your support is critical to helping the Library preserve and share Virginia’s history, government and culture. Please consider making a gift today at www.lva.virginia.gov/donate. #archives #thisisLVA #familyhistory #loveyourlibrary | Library of Virginia | Facebook

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13 reactions | The Library has some remarkable historical documents containing information about Maggie Lena Walker, whose birthday we celebrate today! Watch this video that highlights some of the important steps this social reformer and civil rights activist took to support her community in Virginia. Then learn more about her at https://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/dvb/bio.php?b=Walker_Maggie_Lena | Library of Virginia | Facebook

Did you know October is American Archives Month? Come solve your research “problems” with help from the archival collections in the VMHC library. ⁠Plan your visit at https://virginiahistory.org/library. | Virginia Museum of History & Culture

On July 23, 1986, Caroline Kennedy stood beside Senator Ted Kennedy at the JFK Library, unaware most people didn’t know she had just finished an extraordinary mission—recording over fifty private interviews with her mother Jackie to preserve memories of her father, released decades later. Raised under intense public scrutiny, she transformed that burden into purpose, earning a Columbia law degree in 1988, raising three children, and writing nine influential books on poetry, civics, and history.

13 reactions | During the end of November in 1909, a group of white women met in Richmond on Franklin Street to formally organize the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia to fight for women's voting rights. Find more resources on this piece of local history at https://edu.lva.virginia.gov/wedemand/ | Library of Virginia | Facebook