Children photographed by Gari Melchers, courtesy Gari Melchers Home and Studio: https://www.garimelchers.org/
Mrs. Alsie Ellis, courtesy Shirley Robinson, African Americans of Spotsylvania County
Timothy O'Sullivan, "Fredericksburg, Virginia: View from across the river," 1861-1869, courtesy Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2018670537/
Andrews, John, Engraver. Anthony Burns / drawn by Barry from a daguereotype i.e. daguerreotype by Whipple & Black ; John Andrews, SC. Boston Massachusetts, ca. 1855. Boston: R.M. Edwards, printer, 129 Congress Street. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003689280/.
Formerly enslaved people at Clearview Plantation: https://i0.wp.com/emergingcivilwar.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/former-slaves-at-the-scott-house-492.jpg.
"Gateway to Freedom" Memorial in Detroit, Michigan, featuring George DeBaptist: https://wdet.org/2023/10/12/forgotten-tales-of-the-underground-railroad/
Benjamin Henry Latrobe, "An overseer doing his duty near Fredericksburg, Virginia," circa 1798, courtesy Maryland Center for History and Culture: https://www.mdhistory.org/resources/an-overseer-doing-his-duty-near-fredericksburg-virginia/
Fredericksburg News, February 1, 1862, courtesy John Hennessy
Advertisement in the Virginia Gazette, June 9, 1774
Courtesy Shiloh Baptist Church (Old Site): https://shiloholdsite.org/history-overview/
Falmouth, Virginia. Lt. Col. [Jos] Dickinson and group of officers. Headquarters, Army of the Potomac Courtesy Library of Congress: https://loc.gov/pictures/resource/cwpb.03854/
US Colored Troops at Gari Melchers Home and Garden, Stafford County, Virginia, 2015, courtesy Steward Henderson.
Timothy O’Sullivan, “Fugitive Negroes fording the Rappahannock (during Pope’s retreat),” 1862. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Lost Friends Ad, published September 1880, courtesy Historic New Orleans Collection.
John Washington Papers, 1858–1865, 1982, Accession #15000. Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va
Ms. Gaye Adegbalola, Summer 1960, Courtesy The Free Lance-Star.
Walker-Grant Students, Courtesy The Free Lance-Star.
Fredericksburg Sit-In Movement: Woolworth's Counter, 1960, courtesy The Free Lance-Star.
Walker-Grant Student Protest, 1950, Courtesy The Free Lance-Star: https://blog.fredericksburgva.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/This-Entrance-Closed-to-US-00000002.jpg.
Dunmore and Eliza Gwinn, enslaved in Falmouth, Virginia by the Conway family, escaped to freedom in 1862 and established a home in the "Conway Colony" in Yellow Springs, Ohio. https://discoverstafford.org/artifact/civil-war-reconstruction-2/trail-to-freedom-2/the-gwinns/
Jerine Mercer (McConnell), 1960, Courtesy The Free Lance-Star.
Auction Block Protest, June 2020, Courtesy The Free Lance-Star: https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/fredericksburg-area-museum-to-exhibit-citys-slave-auction-block-in-november/article_2fe2045e-0e85-5a58-bb87-5f8146be51f3.html
Reverend Lawrence Davies addresses a group of students in the 1980s. Image courtesy The Free Lance-Star.
Mrs. Gladys Poles Todd, photo courtesy Ms. Gaye Adegbalola https://fredericksburg.com/news/local/gladys-todd-local-civil-rights-leader-dies-at-101/article_272199b8-51c3-5bc5-989f-80f98969d8c4.html.
The Spotsylvania All-Stars at Maury Stadium in 1958, founded by Charles "Sonny" Dyson (top, far left), courtesy Mr. James Dyson.
Mrs. Gladys Poels Todd dancing with her husband, Mr. Clarence Todd. Image courtesy Ms. Gaye Adegbalola.
Mrs. Gladys Poles Todd, courtesy Ms. Gaye Adegbalola.
Mrs. Gladys Poles Todd, Ms. Gaye Adegbalola, Mr. Juno Pitchford, courtesy Ms. Gaye Adegbalola.
Marguerite Bailey Young, 2019, Courtesy The Free Lance-Star: https://fredericksburg.com/discover/difference-maker-hall-of-fame-marguerite-bailey-young/article_ff766c5e-8caa-57c8-b9a0-c9a70aaa59c6.html.
Children photographed by Gari Melchers, courtesy Gari Melchers Home and Studio: https://www.garimelchers.org/.
African American children on Water Street (now Sophia), between 1927 and 1929, photographed by Frances Benjamin Johnston, courtesy Library of Congress.
Reverend Lawrence Davies, courtesy The Free Lance-Star.
