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Celebrating National Poetry Month
Posted about 4 years ago by Alexandra Zukas
Hello, readers! Not only is this week National Library Week (and coincidentally, RPL’s reopening week), but it’s also currently National Poetry Month! I’ll admit that I haven’t always found poetry […]
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Jailed For Freedom: Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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| Tagged with 19th Amendment, Alice Paul, Angela Dodson, Doris Stevens, Forced Feeding, Jailed For Freedom, Kate Heffelfinger, law, Law Library, Lucy Burns, Maud Powell Jamison, Meldon Jenkins-Jones, National Women's Party, Night of Terror, Occoquan Workhouse, Oliver W. Hill Book Club, Pauline Adams, Silent Sentinels, Turning Point Suffrage Memorial, Women's Suffrage, Women's Suffrage Banners, Women's Suffrage Prison Special, Woodrow Wilson
Lorton, Virginia’s Occoquan Workhouse,built in 1910 and originally used to hold prisoners completing short sentences for offenses like disorderly conduct, played a key role in women’s suffrage history. National Woman’s […]
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New Richmond Public Law Library Book Club
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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| Tagged with Angela P. Dodson, Doris Stevens, Jailed For Freedom, law, Lucy Burns Museum, Occoquan Workhouse, Oliver W. Hill, Oliver W. Hill Book Club, Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box, Richmond Public Library, Spottswood Robinson, Virginia history
The Richmond Public Law Library is launching the bi-monthly Oliver W. Hill Book Club on Monday, March 8th online. The club is named in honor of Oliver W. Hill (1907–2007), […]
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Explore Black History Across America
Posted about 4 years ago by Katherine Daigle
The roots of Black History Month spans back to 1926 when what is now the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), established the second week […]
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BILL OF RIGHTS DAY
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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| Tagged with Bill of Rights, Bill Of Rights Day, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Mason, James Madison, law, Law Library, Nazi Germany, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, President Harry S Truman, U.S. Constitution, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Virginia Constitution, Virginia Declaration of Rights, Virginia General Assembly, World War II
Presidential Proclamation On November 27, 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a proclamation designating December 15 as Bill of Rights Day. The proclamation read in part: The first ten amendments, […]
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Commemorating Native American Heritage Month
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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| Tagged with Anglo-Powhatan War, Indigenous Peoples, law, Law Library, Native American Heritage Month, Native Americans, Virginia's Native Americans
Part II: Virginia’s Native Americans Virginia’s Earliest Inhabitants Virginia’s earliest inhabitants were hunters and gatherers who tracked the migratory patterns of animals. In time, they formed towns along riverbanks and sketched […]
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NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH: PART 1
Posted about 4 years ago by kathryn Coker
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| Tagged with Law Library, Native American Heritage Month, Native Americans
National American Indian Heritage Month Designation In 1990 President George H. W. Bush approved a joint resolution authorizing November 1990 as National American Indian Heritage Month. Comparable proclamations, under various […]
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25 Socially Distant Acts of Kindness for World Kindness Day
Posted about 4 years ago by Jennifer Deuell
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Children's, Events, Health and Wellness, Reading Recommendations, Teens
| Tagged with #bekind, #worldkindnessday, #worldkindnessday2020
World Kindness Day takes place every year on November 13th. If you weren’t previously aware of this holiday, it’s time you get acquainted! This international holiday was started back in […]
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Veteran’s Day 2020
Posted about 4 years ago by Lisa Crisman
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| Tagged with Folklife Center, Library of Congress, McGuire VA Medical Center, national parks, Veterans Day, Veterans History Project
Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines armistice as “temporary stopping of open acts of warfare by agreement between the opponents.” In 1918, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh […]
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