Advance Evening News
It's Halloween, and this evening the Advance offers a look at Fredericksburg during the age of Jim Crow, and Stafford Public Schools receives five-figure donation.
Fredericksburg in the Time of Jim Crow
By Erik Nelson
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In the Fredericksburg area, a new Civil Rights Trails highlights leadership within African American churches, sit-ins at drugstore lunch counters, and a sustained drive for educational opportunities. It is a story of activists pushing their communities, and a nation, toward social and political equality. The darker story of the Jim Crow experience, however, reveals what was being overcome.
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Sheehy Toyota of Stafford Donates $35,000 to Stafford Schools
This contribution brings to $170,000 the total contributed to the school district over the past five years.
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