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A view of Vinegar Hill in the early 1960s — before Charlottesville city leaders uprooted the thriving Black community — looking north at the intersection of Main and Ridge streets. (Charlottesville Housing Authority)
A General Assembly commission is probing public universities' disruption of Black communities across the Commonwealth
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Official map of Farmville, Virginia in 1934. The outlined area shows the Longwood College campus on the north section and the predominantly Black neighborhood, known as the triangle, to the south. Longwood planned expansions beginning in the 1960s that would diminish, then capture, the neighborhood.
A Virginia university wanted property for dormitories and classrooms. It targeted a Black neighborhood at the center of the Civil Rights Movement.
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