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Nearly two years after the city of Charlottesville declared the stretch of Fourth Street between West Main Street and Preston Avenue a Black History Pathway in 2021, the community had
Burley School served as the high school for Black students in Albemarle County and Charlottesville from 1951 to 1967 when “separate but equal” was the land’s law.
From left to right: Myra Anderson, Katie Kishore, Jimmy Hollins, Karina Monroy and Robert Gray. Meet five individuals who are striving to make a difference in the Charlottesville community — often behind the scenes — in the areas of mental health, entrepreneurship, historical preservation, education and mentorship. Find out what inspires them to do the work and how we can all be changemakers during a special episode of “Charlottesville Inside-Out,” Thursday, May 13 at 8:30 p.m. on VPM television and streaming on VPM Facebook. Myra Anderson Photo by Terri Allard Myra Anderson is ...
Decades after Jackson P. Burley High School shut its doors, the schoolâs alumni continue to tell their stories to keep the memory of the once all-Black high school alive, and they want to work with students at the school, which became Jackson P. Burley Middle School in 1974, in that effort. âI wish the history of this school would be taught to students in a class, so the kids would understand what we went through, what our parents went through and show them the difference between what it is then and what it is now,â said Donald Byers, who graduated in 1959. âThey have grea...