Ball field adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, Farmville, Va., 1991

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Title	Ball field adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, Farmville, Va., 1991
Date of Photograph	1991
Town / Community	Farmville (Va.)
County	Prince Edward County (Va.)
Description	Ball field on S. Main Street in Farmville, Va., adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, which was known as Mary E. Branch Elementary School #2 for African Americans in 1963. This is one of the two sites where the Richmond Volunteers to Prince Edward County conducted recreational and educational activities for school-less African Americans teenage boys in 1961-1962. In the background is the previous African American high school, and the cemetery where L. Francis Griffin, Jr. is buried. Longwood College had taken possession of the field by 1998.
Subject	baseball fields
Corporate Name Subject	R. R. Moton High School (Farmville, Va.); Mary E. Branch Elementary School No. 2 (Farmville, Va.); Richmond Committee of Volunteers to Prince Edward County
Topical Subject	Baseball fields -- Virginia -- Farmville -- History -- Pictorial works; Volunteer workers in recreation -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County; Volunteer workers in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
Geographic Subject	Farmville (Va.)
Local Genre	photograph
Photographer	Peeples, Edward H. (Edward Harden), 1935-
LC Classification	LA380.P74
GIS Data	37.2924846,-78.3961863
Map URL	http://maps.google.com/maps?q=37.2924846,%20-78.3961863
Original Image Medium	Color negative
Original Image Size	6 x 9 cm.
Type	Stillimage
Digital File Type	image/tiff
Date Digitized	2009-04
Digitization Process	Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL, using Photoshop CS4, at 24-RBG color, 2400 dpi
Rights	© VCU. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.
Contributor	James Branch Cabell Library. Special Collections and Archives
Digital Publisher	VCU Libraries
Collection	Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools
Original File Name	pec104.tif

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