Today's blog post was inspired by one archivist's research into an African 
American family depicted in a collection of photographs in the Library of 
Virginia collection. The Watkins family of New Kent County included George W. 
Watkins, a minister and educator who headed a school that figured into one of 
the most important school desegregation-related court cases to follow Brown 
v. Board of Education. Many communities in Virginia have similar stories of 
educators, families, churches, and organizations that worked on many 
different levels to abolish the “separate but equal” school system. It is 
fortunate that a part of this family’s story is preserved here in the archives. 
See the Out of the Box blog at 
http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out_of_the_box/

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