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Fourteen months after it was stolen and 103 years and 14 months after its subject was murdered, a marker remembering the lynching will be replaced Friday.

Walter Ashby Plecker was the first registrar of Virginia's Bureau of Vital Statistics, which records births, marriages and deaths.

SUMMARY Floyd Allen was the central figure in one of the most sensational and bizarre incidents in Virginia criminal and legal history, the so-called Hillsville Massacre. In the great Carroll County shootout in Hillsville on March 14, 1912, a judge, a sheriff, a commonwealth’s attorney, a juror, and a spectator were all killed by shots fired by Allen and others after Allen was convicted of assault. Allen and several members of his family immediately fled the courtroom but were later ca...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of one of the most shameful political events in Virginia history, one that has repercussions to this day. In 1921, Virginia Republicans purged Black voters from their ranks. Virginia Republicans weren’t alone. Republicans across the South were doing the same thing, in a failed bid to make themselves more acceptable to white voters. Much context is in order: Before the Civil War, Democrats were the dominant party in the South. The Republican candidates ...