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/ To subscribe, change options, or unsubscribe, please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html