History

Delegate Sam Rasoul presented the resolution.

Hidden in Plain Site will include a virtual education tool. It will allow users to virtually visit five Roanoke sites integral to Black History.

Mimi Reinhard, a secretary in Oskar Schindler’s office who typed up the list of Jews he saved from extermination by Nazi Germany, has died in Israel at the age of 107.

Norfolk Southern Corporation is donating archives from the Norfolk and Western Railway to the Virginia Museum of History & Culture in Richmond.

Pocahontas’ legacy in Virginia is complicated. We know nothing of her story from her own perspective, and her story was enshrined by white colonists and corporations.

On this day in history, April 5, 1856, the famous Virginian Booker T. Washington was born enslaved in Franklin County.

In the Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab, team members monitor Ukrainian cultural heritages sites using advanced satellite imagery.

First Baptist Church’s Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Community Worship Service was planned for January. But inclement weather led the church to postpone it to Sunday.

The event will include free guided tours of the Fauntleroy home, a historical presentation, live music, lawn games and refreshments.

One of Virginia’s newest historical highway markers profiles one of Roanoke College’s most influential graduates.

Veterans of the Vietnam War, and others who salute their service to the nation, gathered Saturday in Roanoke’s Freedom Plaza.

Those with the tribe call this a win for Monacans everywhere.

They say the new kind of hunter was a part of a mysterious group of animals that are now completely extinct.

The Roanoke Chapter Southern Christian Leadership Conference hosted the annual event.

An organization in Martinsville has a unique mission, as it responds to the crisis in Ukraine. The Cultural Heritage Monitoring Lab is located at the Virginia Museum of Natural History, and is leading U.S. efforts to monitor and map Ukraine’s cultural heritage sites.

Martha Anne Woodrum Zillhardt was the first woman in Virginia to earn an instrument rating license and run a fixed base operation at an airport.

The museum’s new gallery exhibit is titled “We the Women: Portraits of Empowerment”.

The Historic Greenfield Advisory Council said it’s important to restore Greenfield’s antebellum buildings to teach new generations about the past.

100 years ago, filmmaker Oscar Micheaux moved his office to Roanoke. Between 1922 and 1925, he produced as many as six full-length films here.

In 1875, Governor Warmoth signed the “Mardi Gras Act,” making Fat Tuesday or ‘Mardi Gras’ a legal holiday in Louisiana.

“He’s really the connection for the whole neighborhood. He brought the whole community together,” Anna Robertson said.

Lt. Col. Enoch “Woody” Woodhouse spoke to VMI cadets Thursday night.

Trained as a nurse, she founded an orphanage, worked with the elderly, pushed for more schools for the African American community, and organized political fundraising.

Governor Northam pardoned the seven men on August 31, 2021.

The community is now able to have any of their history preserved digitally at these events.