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The Charlottesville Department of Parks and Recreation will be hosting a public meeting to present and gather input on Benjamin Tonsler Park.

The Charlottesville Department of Parks and Recreation will be hosting two online public meetings on Benjamin Tonsler Park.

The papers, which encompass the years between 1901 and Washingtons death in 1915, will be searchable and can be used in conjunction with other Rotunda imprint publications in its American

Booker T. Washington, who emerged from slavery to become one of the leading African American intellectuals around the turn of the 20th century, had ties to Charlottesville that eventually led to a city park being named after him. A new connection between Washington and this area will be forged virtually via the University of Virginia Press’ electronic imprint, Rotunda, which has acquired “The Booker T. Washington Papers” to create a digital edition. Washington – an author, pioneer in hi...