RICHMOND (AP) — Fifty-three years ago, the doors to America's segregated public schools were forced open for all children, regardless of color. Largely to thank for that was a Virginia lawyer named Oliver White Hill.
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RICHMOND (AP) — Oliver W. Hill, a civil rights lawyer who was at the front of the legal effort that desegregated public schools, has died at age 100, a family friend said.
Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Michael N. Herring is expected to announce early next month the status of an investigation into roughly $170,000 missing from Mayor L. Douglas Wilder's 1989 gubernatorial campaign fund.
Richmond Commonwealth's Attorney Michael N. Herring is expected to announce early next month the status of an investigation into roughly $170,000 missing from Mayor L. Douglas Wilder's 1989 gubernatorial campaign fund.
The first black candidate elected governor says he's confident that the next president of the United States will be a white woman or a black man.
RICHMOND — Organizers of the United States National Slavery Museum must raise $10 million by summer's end or risk missing their late 2008 goal for opening the slave history repository, already more than a decade in the works.
RICHMOND — Organizers of the United States National Slavery Museum must raise $10 million by summer's end or risk missing their late 2008 goal for opening the slave history repository, already more than a decade in the works.
