When the new Virginia Civil Rights Memorial is unveiled in Richmond’s Capitol Square July 21, Rita Moseley, 61, will be there with her new college degree. Moseley’s degree in business administration comes courtesy of the Brown v. Board of Education scholarship program started in 2004. The idea is to pay tuitions for black students whose local schools in Prince Edward and Warren counties, as well as the cities of Norfolk and even Charlottesville, were closed in the name of Massive Resistance after the landmark 1954 ruling. In the case of Prince Edward, the closing lasted five years, effectively terminating the educational careers of some students who are now grown and in some cases retired. The scholarship fund, however, still has some unfinished business. In 2004, former broadcasting tycoon John Kluge, a wealthy donor formerly of Charlottesville and now living in Palm Beach (more…) Comments(0) ...
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When the new Virginia Civil Rights Memorial is unveiled in Richmond’s Capitol Square July 21, Rita Moseley, 61, will be there with her new college degree. Moseley’s degree in business administration comes courtesy of the Brown v. Board of Education scholarship program started in 2004. The idea is to pay tuitions for black students whose local schools in Prince Edward and Warren counties, as well as the cities of Norfolk and even Charlottesville, were closed in the name of Massive Resistance after the landmark 1954 ruling. In the case of Prince Edward, the closing lasted five years, effectively terminating the educational careers of some students who are now grown and in some cases retired. The scholarship fund, however, still has some unfinished business. In 2004, former broadcasting tycoon John Kluge, a wealthy donor formerly of Charlottesville and now living in Palm Beach (more…) Comments(0) ...