Local newspaper editors in Virginia say they hadn’t been aware of their publications’ roles in the 1883 Danville massacre. “It’s just appalling,” Steven Doyle, editor of the Danville Register &…
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Local historians Dean Hairston and Karice Luck-Brimmer, who are both African American, had trouble discovering their family history in Danville, Virginia. African American history can be difficult to uncover. Traditional…
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Danville, Virginia, was economically prosperous in 1883. The town’s tobacco industry alone brought in $1 million a week, according to Danville Deputy Police Chief Dean Hairston, who is also a…
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