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Collections in the Classroom
Time Periods
1000-1600: Early Indigenous
1600-1775: Colonial
1775-1784: Revolutionary
1785-1850: Building America
1850-1865: Civil War Period
1866-1870: Reconstruction
1871-1899: Post Reconstruction
1900-1950: Early 20th Century
1951-1999: Late 20th Century
2000-present: Early 21st Century
Excerpt from Richmond Planet, July 5, 1902
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A Measuring Rod by Mildred L. Rutherford, 1919
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference members in Richmond, 1963
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Andromache & Astyanax, 1893
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Rads Must Go, 1883
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Remove Riot Gear sign on Monument Avenue, 2020
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Recumbent Lee, 1872
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