Wilson To Give Black History Month Talk

Mountain Gateway Community College will cap off this year’s Black History Month programming with a presentation by Rockbridge Historical Society Executive Director Eric Wilson entitled “Cultivating Education: Lexington’s Black Schools and Churches, 1865-1965,” sponsored by the VMI Office of Diversity, Opportunity and Inclusion.”

Free and open to the entire community, the program will be held on Thursday, Feb. 29, from noon to 1 p.m. at MGCC’s Rockbridge Regional Center at 35 Vista Links Drive in Buena Vista.

Full of historic photographs and biographical profiles of notable students and educators, Wilson’s slideshow canvases 100 years - from Emancipation to the height of the American Civil Rights Movement -- when local schools and churches instilled a “Culture of Education” for Black students in Lexington and across Rockbridge County.

For more details, email Director@RockbridgeHistory. org.