Moton for AmericaANNUAL REPORT 2010 AND 2011

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Museum Board of Directors

Robert L. Hamlin, President

Dorothy Holcomb, Vice PresidentRepresenting Prince Edward County Students, 1959-1963

Cynthia L. Johnson, SecretaryRepresenting Prince Edward County Public Schools

Marcie Wall, Assistant Secretary

Charles Taylor, Treasurer

Edwilda Allen IsaacsRepresenting the Martha E. Forrester Council

Bill Bass

Nina Monroe

Grace Moton

Ruth MurphyRepresenting Fuqua School

Melvin Nunnally

Hon. A. D. “Chuckie” ReidRepresenting the Prince Edward County Branch NAACP

Jamie Riley, Ph.D.

Hon. Howard SimpsonRepresenting Prince Edward County

Joy Cabarrus Speakes

Sherry SwinsonRepresenting Virginia’s Retreat

Hon. Sally B. ThompsonRepresenting the Town of Farmville

J. Michael Utzinger, Ph.D.Representing Hampden-Sydney College

Andrea VerschaeveRepresenting Longwood University

Wanda WhitusRepresenting the Farmville Area Chamber of Commerce

Francis Wood

James P. Young

Museum Staff

Lacy Ward, Jr., DirectorLori Blackwood, Associate

Director for Administration and Development

Justin Reid, Associate Director for Museum Operations

Morgan Bomar, InternH. William Bowler, MaintenanceLucia Davis, InternJanie Osborne, Office AssistantBrenda Richards, Administrative

AssistantMelvin Watkins, Custodian

Advisors/Consultants

All About PresentationBuford CreekChmura Economics & AnalyticsThe Coleman GroupCommonwealth Regional CouncilLinwood Cousins, Ph.D.Dalch ConsultingDetails & CompanyDixon Hughes GoodmanLarissa S. Fergeson, Ph.D. E.L. Freeman, LLCFaith Davis RuffinsFinancial Accounting ServicesThe Hamilton GroupRonald Heinemann, Ph.D.Hill, Tucker, & Marsh Law FirmHirschler-FleischerJackson Brady DesignJamē AndersonKadiri Consulting, LLCKeiter Stephens

Laurnette Lee, Ph.D.McGuire Woods, LLPWilliam ObrochtaObsidian ProductionsPayne, Ross & AssociatesRobert Pratt, Ph.D. Prestige ConstructionQwaku & AssociatesWallace StettiniusHelen Stiff-Williams, Ed.D.StoryCorpsStudio AmmonsTalbot ConsultingTaylor Dabney Virtual AdvantageWall Law OfficeWiley Wilson

Photo Credits

American Friends Service Committee

Stanley Bleifeld, Virginia Department of General Services

Bob Brown, Richmond Times-Dispatch

CORBIS/BettmannTaylor DabneyLibrary of Congress, Prints

& Photographs Division, U.S. News & World Report Magazine Collection, [203A]

Moton MuseumPayne, Ross & AssociatesPete Souza, White HousePrince Edward County

Public SchoolsStudio Ammons

Mission of the Robert Russa Moton MuseumThe Robert Russa Moton Museum is committed to the preservation and positive interpretation of the history of civil rights in education, specifi-cally as it relates to Prince Edward County and the role its citizens played in America’s struggle to move from a segregated to an integrated society.

Vision of the Robert Russa Moton MuseumThe Robert Russa Moton Museum is envisioned to be a repository for historically significant materials that record Prince Edward County’s thirteen-year struggle to achieve Civil Rights in Education. The Museum will feature exhibits that docu-ment and reflect upon the period of transition from segregation to integration of public educa-tion, with particular attention to events occur-ring from 1951 to 1964. The Museum will exist to commemorate the students and families whose courage and per-sonal sacrifices brought about change. The Museum will serve future generations as:• an education center that delivers the story,• a policy center for the study of Civil Rights in

Education, and• a provider of community outreach services to

support area citizens.

Let me begin by thanking you, the many friends and supporters of the Robert Russa Moton Museum for making possible two years of outstanding growth.

As a result of your help and encouragement the years 2010 and 2011 will long be remembered as the period in time when the Moton Museum set itself apart as a highly valued entity within the commu-nity, an entity representing a community’s desire for commemoration and healing.

Prince Edward County children paid a tremendous price in leading America from its segregationist past to its current day embrace of equality of opportu-nity. Let us assure that the children’s sacrifices were not in vain, and that their contributions will never be forgotten.

On the following pages we highlight the accom-plishments of 2010 and 2011, we recognize our

From the Director

donors over the last four years whose gifts have brought us to this point of development, we de-tail their investment in Moton, we comment on Moton’s place in history, and we lay out our vision for the future — the Moton for America initiative.

Enjoy what these pages have to offer. Share with us your reflections and critiques. Share with friends, family and neighbors the good news of good things happening in Prince Edward County, Virginia.

Thanking you always for your continued support, I remain

Sincerely yours,

Lacy Ward, Jr.Director

Ms. Joan Cobbs, left, sister of civil rights legend Barbara Johns, shakes hands with Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, right, after a portrait of Miss Johns, center, was unveiled in the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond, Va., Friday, Sept. 17, 2010. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Bob Brown)

The year 2010 began with Prince Edward County’s history placed in the hearts and minds of the Com-monwealth when Governor Bob McDonnell at his inaugural remarked,

It was in seizing the opportunity of equality in education that a courageous 16-year-old girl named Barbara Johns, memorialized behind this majestic Capitol at the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial, stood up and walked out of Moton High School in Farmville 59 years ago this spring.

The following week Dominion Resources awarded a grant to support production of the museum’s orien-tation video, Strike: April 23, 1951, a film directed by Hollywood icon Tim Reid. Strike, a dramatization of the student walk out the Governor referenced, previewed at an April 23 museum gala, keynoted by Virginia Secretary of Education Gerard Robinson.

NAACP President Ben Jealous also visited the mu-seum in April. Hosted by Our Schools, Our Vision Jealous addressed an audience of Hampden-Sydney College, Longwood University, Prince Edward

2010 in Review

County High School and Fuqua School students as well as Central Virginia NAACP leaders.

Barbara Johns was again the center of attention on Constitution Day when Louis Briel’s painting of Johns as portrayed by Courtney Jamison was unveiled by Governor McDonnell and members of the Johns Family at the Virginia Capitol. The work hung at the Capitol through the summer of 2011.

Construction at the museum began in September, supported by donations from the Bob McDonnell Inaugural Fund, the Cabell Foundation, the Mary Morton Parsons Foundation, Wallace and Mary Gray Stettinius, the Virginia Tobacco Commission, and a special appeal — the Family Challenge, as well as continuing support from the National Edu-cation Association.

Their combined gifts allowed for the conversion of five former classrooms to modern gallery exhibit space. Fundraising continues for the final fabrica-tion and installation of Galleries II thru VI of Moton 2011: the Permanent Exhibition.

Tim Reid, New Millennium Studios

Dominion Diversity Initiative

Ben Jealous, NAACP

The year 2011 opened with the museum closed for construction.

From January through September crews from Prestige Construction were on site restoring the historic auditorium to its 1951 appearance, convert-ing former classrooms to gift shop and office space, and working with Obsidian Productions to install auditorium audiovisual equipment.

Construction took a break in April to observe the 60th Anniversary of the Moton Student Strike and to honor the student and parent plaintiffs of Davis v. Prince Edward. One of four cases decided in the landmark 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board, Davis had 117 student plaintiffs, well outnumbering the 50 students represented in the District of Columbia, Delaware, Kansas, and South Carolina cases combined.

We were fortunate to have in attendance the then lone surviving parent plaintiff of 1951, Deaconess Louise Willis Foster. We were all deeply saddened by her passing in November.

2011 in Review

The museum observed Johns-Griffin Day with services at Barbara Johns’ Triumph Baptist Church and Rev. L. Francis Griffin’s First Baptist Church in April. The Johns-Griffin Day Sermon Unfinished Business was delivered by Rev. Eric Griffin, the late minister’s youngest child.

A visit by WGBH’s 2011 Student Freedom Ride, a 50th anniversary pilgrimage, rounded out a busy April.

In September the community celebrated the com-pletion of Phase I of Moton 2011, a project supported with financing from USDA-Rural Development and Virginia Community Capitol. Dominion Re-sources was also recognized for their support of the film Strike, which plays in Gallery I of the exhibit.

In October we held our inaugural community ban-quet at Longwood University with more than 400 supporters on hand to hear from Essence Magazine co-founder Ed Lewis. Lewis, Barbara Johns’ cousin, shared his remembrances of summers spent in his grandparents’ tobacco fields and the many lessons learned which prepared him for business success.

Ed Lewis, Essence Magazine

Ellen Davis, USDA

Louise Foster, Plaintiff

Errors and Omissions

The Honor Roll of Donors has been carefully reviewed. However, omissions and errors occur. We sincerely apologize if indeed this has happened. Please bring any omissions or errors to our attention:Lori Blackwood, lori.blackwood@motonmuseum.org

$500,000 and above

Dominion ResourcesUSDA-Rural Development *The Virginia Tobacco

Indemnification and Community Revitalization Commission

$250,000 – $499,999

Martha E. Forrester Council of Women & Friends **

National Education Association

National Park Service Save America’s Treasures **

U.S. Department of EducationVirginia Community Capital *Virginia Department of

Transportation Enhancement Program **

W. K. Kellogg Foundation

Norfolk Southern Foundation

Pulse ElectronicsSave Our HistoryStokes FamilyVirginia Foundation for the

HumanitiesWachovia Foundation

$5,000 – $9,999

Atlantic PhilanthropiesMartha CookHunton & Williams, LLPSteven and Katherine

MarkelJohn A. StokesLacy Ward, Sr.

$1,000 – $4,999

Edna V. Allen-DeanJamē AndersonShirley B. AshleyGeorge and Susan Bagby, Jr.Paul and Diane BarrettKieran H. BartleyLynn and Lori BlackwoodAnn BradshawRobert BurrusMartha ClevelandAlfred L. CobbsClaude and Joan Cobbs

Charles and Nannette TaylorTaylor FamilyUniversity of VirginiaVirginia Education

Association ChallengeWalMartLacy and Ardeania WardLee WashingtonJames L. WeinbergWoolridge Family

$500 – $999

Aetna Giving CampaignAnonymousKelly BelangerRichard and Darlene

BratcherLonnie and Marian

Calhoun, IIIFreddie CobbsHilda J. CosbyJarrod and Larrissa FergesonJohn J. FestaFieldstone AlliancePatrick and Joan FinneganMichael GiovannettiRobert GordonRonald and Sandra

HeinemannJames and Dorothy

HolcombHolcomb Family

$50,000 – $249,999

Altria GroupCabell FoundationInstitute of Museum and

Library ServicesMary Morton Parsons

FoundationPrince Edward CountyWallace and Mary Gray

Stettinius

$25,000 – $49,999

Department of Housing and Community Development

Family ChallengeNational Endowment for the

HumanitiesTown of Farmville

$10,000 – $24,999

Amerigroup Charitable Foundation

Bank of America FoundationBob McDonnell Inaugural

Committee, Inc.R. H. Bunzl, IIICivic Entertainment Group,

LLCMartin Luther King, Jr.

Memorial Commission

Cobbs FamilyNellie ColesColes FamilyGoodwin DouglasE.B. Allen FamilyJames EdmundsEstate of the Late Thomas

MayfieldFarmville Area Chamber of

CommerceJames and Patsy FranklinG.P. Morton FamilyRobert and Diane HamlinHamlin FamilyArthur C. HoutsJohns FamilyHugh and Beatrice KennedyEdward LewisMcGuireWoods, LLPPatterson FamilyJohnny and Aundre PearcePrestige ConstructionPrince Edward County

Public SchoolsRoy Hock and Margaret

Nelson FowlerReid Temple AME ChurchScott-Carrington FamilySpencer Croner Family

ReunionLeslie StokesHoward StokesCarrie StokesStudio Ammons

Sharon Lee HostlerCarolyn Hubbard-

KamunanwireIndiana University

FoundationCynthia JohnsonJoanne KatsantonisHeyn and Sandy KjerulfRipon W. La RocheGrace MotonMoton FamilyRuth MurphyJoyce MurrellErline PatrickCedric E. PearsonThomas C. ReedRichard S. and Pam

Reynolds, IIIStan ShawAlexander H. SlaughterJoy Cabarrus SpeakesJacquelyn E. StoneRobert and Mary TrumbullKnox W. Tull, Jr. University of RichmondLawrence and Linda VarnerVirginia’s Retreat

ConsortiumPeter and Sookhan Ho

WallensteinGerald and Ivy WardWomack Family

Honor Roll of DonorsGifts, Pledges, and Financing received/awarded January 1, 2008 through December 31, 2011

* Financing provided by the USDA-Rural Development Community Facilities Loan Program.

** Gifts received prior to January 1, 2008.

$250 – $499

Vilma AmadioRandal ArnoDon BakerViola BaskervilleJohn H. BranchGertrude H. CapersClaudette CarsonCentury LinkClass of 1960Samuel CobbsDeborah ColemanRomie DeloatchLouanna Suckins DennisDominion Foundation

Matching Gift ProgramWilliam and Martha DorrillEdward M. Farley, IVFarmville Rotary ClubMaurice and Beatrice FinneyGaines FamilyDiane GloverFrank and Anna HarrisonGloria HendersonMary Carroll HerdegenChristopher and Barbara

HowardEdwilda Allen IsaacCalvin and Birdie JamisonErnest JohnsRobert Spencer JohnsJohn R. KernLura KiddGregory KonzalDianne McIntyre

Ross MeyersErenest E. MillerNina MonroeQwaku & AssociatesS. Waite Rawls, IIIAlbert H. RaymondKylor and Mary ReedReid FamilySaunders FamilyCatherine ScottHarry L. SeawrightKen Dye and Sam SeeleyK. David SmithRucker Snead, IIILarry A. StylesSuckins FamilyAldrena ThirkhillThomas and Daisy Allen

FamilyPatrick and Deborah

ThompsonVirginia TechWard FamilyJohn WatsonWatson FamilySamuel V. WilsonSamuel and Sally Witt, IIIDeborah YaffeeJames P. YoungYoung Family

$100 – $249

AARP Hanover ChapterRobert Alden

Elsie R. AlexanderJames D. AllerAmelia Baptist Missionary

CircleKathleen BakerPaul BakerAllen BanksCarolyn M. BarryScott BellemanEdgar BinghamMargaret BlackmonKitty BoitnottJames BookerCamille BowmanSandra J. BreilSally G. BrownJudy Kay BryantLynn BuckleyJean Lee BusbyClarence CarpenterCarpenter FamilyCarthorne FamilyNathaniel CarthorneNancy CassidyKevin ChandlerJohanna ChaseRichard L. ChubbRobert CokerDavid and Tina ColonaCarolyn CooperPatricia P. CormierCostco WholesaleLinwood CousinsCarolyn M. CraftEdith CrawleyNancy F. Crowther

Linda DavisRobert DendyThomas DeWolfeBarbara DixonRussell DoveShirley N. EarlyLeola EntzmingerJames and Elizabeth EppesFarmville Presbyterian

ChurchDelores E. FergusonFlorence FosterGlenn FrankelLuther GainesMarybeth GallagherElsie GantJames GarrettMartin GeeJim GlanvilleAmy W. GriffinMary GruberEarl GuthrowClyde HamlinMell Hamlin, Jr.Handy Ice and Hometown

Bottled WaterNavona HartMichael HeffernanSusan HemlerCarolyn HendricksMaurice HillFrederick HolcombJames HolcombJames and Ruth HolcombCharlie HolmesLawrence Hoover, Jr.

Marvin HowardICA of Farmville, LLCAda B. JacksonDolores Y. JohnsJohn JohnsDorothy JohnsonRobley Shelton JonesThriftone JonesNadine KaneHugh D. KeoghEdward KinmanElizabeth KostelnyLancaster FamilyJohn Lancaster, Jr.Alvin M. LeeClinton LeeAgnes LynchLawrence MatthewsRome MatthewsJoseph C. McCutchenSusan McNeaseWayne McWeeMerck Partnership for

GivingJames MillerJohn MillerPatricia MillerRon MinickPaul B. Mohr, Sr.Nancy MooreG. Kenneth MorganHoward and Barbara

MorlandFrank MoseleyAnn Morton NealeHarold Nelson

Nunnally FamilyAlex NyergesOdem FamilySusan Hicks OrrMarilyn OsbornBeblon Goodloe ParksThomas and Marcia PaschRosewell Page, IIIMary PaigeNorman PaigePaige FamilyMukesh PatelDavid PattersonMary PattersonPeabody High School

Alumni AssociationPeaks Baptist ChurchLenore M. PeayGrady PowellCarita RandallRebecca RandolphThomas ReddReed FamilyArmstead Chuckie ReidBrenda C. RichardsCalvin and Gwendolyn

RichardsShirley RichardsonRoanoke County Education

AssociationTom RobinsonG. M. RosenthalRosenthal FoundationAlan RudnickMarguerite Y. RuppTreva Russ

Honor Roll of Donors continued

Andres SchlossGilbert ScottJames ScottRobert ShetterlyAltheldra SmithBernice SmithVivian SmithTerrence and Darby SorberSourthern Virginia Higher

Education CenterEarl SpencerSelma Gaines SpencerAlma C. StephensNelson StevensTwitty StylesJames SweeneyParker TerryJanice Scott ThomasMatthew G. ThompsonSally ThompsonJames ThorntonJ. Michael UtzingerVCU Medical CenterAndrea VerschaeveDoris WalkerJennifer WallBradley WatsonHunter WatsonMike R. WengerAlberta WhiteJames Richard WhiteWhite FamilyWanda WhitusQuentin WilhelmiAnnie WilkinsWillie Williams

Honor Roll of Donors continued

William WomackWoman’s Club of FarmvilleTammy WoodWoodson FamilyEva WoolridgeJames H. WorthRoger J. YoungMary Z. Zeugner

Up to $99

Beverly B. AbbottDana AcostaKimberly and Chris AdamsLeslie J.C. AdamsPatricia AdamsJames AdamsAllen AdolphCarl E. Allen Hettie AllenAlpha Kappa Alpa SoroityJames AmaralBenjamin M. AmossAlice AndersonJennifer AndrewsRosalind AndrewsLou AnzaloneJames and Barbara ArietiKaren T. ArmsteadDecoris ArtisAwesome Party SuppliesManuel Levell BakerBaker FamilyGeneva BanksAshley Barker

Laura Bayless Jean M. BeckCarolyn BellDale T. BennetSamuel BigelowNorgie BiggerShirley BlackwellFloyd BlandDonald BlessingCarolyn Y. BoothBonnie W. BowenThomas V. BradyOra J. BriggsDaniel Nixon BrownArline BrownBeverly BrownBrandon BrownMarc BrownJacqueline BrownSouthard BrumfieldKathy BuckJanice BurguieresSharon CarneyDarlene Carr-GreeneDorothy M. CarterIris C. CarterMargaret Ann ChapiaLawrence P. CheckAnna Marie CiarrocchiRichard ClarkEthel R. ColesEileen ColihanDoris CookLea Keener CooperPatsy W. CoppinsDavina Copsy

Shirley J. Cordell-RobinsonBrian CrossKathleen CroweMarcene CulbrethChris DanielBarbara W. DanielRosa Bell DavisLucia D. DavisJanet Maloney DawsonDawn DeHartRobert DenglerMartha Carol DevriesChelsey L. DewsKathleen T. DolanLee DormanHerbert N. Doswell, Jr.Allen DoucetRobert DoyleCarolyn EarlyGeorge ElliottLori A. EllisonJames EnnisMachelle EppesColita Nichols FairfaxMaureen W. FauxNancy K. FergusonFirst Rock Baptist ChurchLouise A.P. FishbeinMarian FitchEmma A. FochtRex ForehandPhilip R. ForgitLloliza Forrest-MarshallWendell J. FosterVirginia FosterFrancis Fourie

Angeline FrankViki T. FrankenburgerCharles Franklin, Sr.Hartwell FreemanTracey D. FreyJill FreymullerLowell T. FryeMary GaddisGaines Chapel AME ChurchAnita Holmes GarlandLucy West GarrettJoanna C. GentryShirley GeorgeStephen H. GoldbergerWilliam GoldmanBasil GoodenFranklin GrantAnne Lee GravelyClineth GravesRoger GrayCornelia GrayCharlotte GreenSharon Green-HennessyJill GrissomPatricia GrossoDavid HaddadKatherine E.S. HairstonJennifer HalladayJohnnie HardwickAmy M. HarrisDavid HarrisQueen HarrisRon HatzenbuehlerForrest HeathErnestine HerndonRonny G. Herrig

Bemeche HicksSylvia HicksTameka HobbsWylyn L. HodnettErnest M. HolleyLarry HooverJoyce HopkinsDana HouckPauline HoustonMary HowarthWarren HowzeKenya HuffmanNeil J. HumphreysJacqueline HuntGeorge M. HurtJennie JamesCheri W. JamesSelena JamesShelley JenningsHelen I. JohnsonStella Little JohnsonNaomi R. JohnsonFrank JohnsonJames H. JohnsonTerry JonesEmma JonesMary JonesBobby JordanJohn A. JordanJoAnn KarshCharlotte KelsoLaura KeohaneCecil KiddJames KiddDavid KinsellaCrystal Konny

Elsie LancasterPetra LarsenSusan LawmanCheryl Allen LeeAdrian Yvon LeeElliott LeibowitzSandra LevUrzetta LewisPatrice LewisRay LigonAnna LindsayBrian LinnaneAndrew Lockett-FarrLombardy Grove Baptist

ChurchSheila LopezNicole Marie LoweLoyola University MarylandDawn LucasMichael LundJanet LundyTerry LyleBarbara B. MannBarbara R. MarlandSusan MayThomas MayoWilberta Gibson McCoyIlona McGuinessRobert MeyersRobert Leon Miller, Sr.Vivian C. MinyardHeather MohrmannRobert MonkkonenHeather MooreJames L. MooreStacy Morton

Tony T. MossLillian MouzonFrieda MyersDoris E. NicholsonRoy NunnallyMelvin NunnallyCharles NunnallyVance NunnallyRobert NunnallyT. E. OkaforCatherine M. PacificoT. Sheppard Parsons, IIIKen PerkinsSusan C. PitmanGail PittmanKenneth R. PlumHerbert R. Plummer, Sr.Lissa Power-deFurAnita James PriceMatthew PuccinelliCheryl D. RamseyJoseph RandolphRandolph FamilyHoward RayT. C. ReedLeslie J. RevilockMichael RichardsVivian RidleyKim RobersonAtlas RobinsonMildred RobinsonSidney RobinsonElana RockJennifer RokaskyRobin RubioMark Ryan

Thomas J. RyderLewis SamuelsLisa A. Schoenbrodt-MyersClaire A. ScholzLinda SheffieldAlice ShowalterMarianne E. SimpsonJanet Sims-WoodCarol SkalkyCarolyn R. SmithBruce SmithBarbara SmithCharley SmithKitty SmithJeanette L. SmithSmith FamilyHugh M. Smith, Sr.Gerald SpatesJames SpencerEdna Spencer-OutlawLois Harvey StantonRebecca S. StarlingRebecca StevensJerry StuartDiane StubbinsLatasha SuggsClara TaylorTurner Taylor, Jr.Patricia L. ThomasJonathan ThomasEdward ThorntonJill Ogline TitusPatricia TompkinsTown and Country

BeautificationScott Traylor

Anthony TuckerHatshepsitu S. TullTunstall Middle SchoolJeremy B. UttEarnest WadeMattie F. WalkerFred WalkerAlice WaltonDeborah WardLinda WardErnestine WareMarie WeberCarol J. WellingtonLillie M. WestWest FamilyJordan WhileyErnestine WhiteCharla W. WhiteJames WhiteWilliam WhitehornLinda WhitehurstSteve WhittenGladys WigginsPamela WileyThomas WileyWiley FamilyJ. Samuel WilliamsBarbara WilsonCheryl Wilson-SprinkleHugo WomackJosephine WomackLarry WomackVan T. WomackWilliam WoodJohn W. Wood, IIIKenneth Woodley

Belinda WoodsEdith O. WrightMichelle WrightBetsy Ellen YeagerYoder PropertiesDouglas and Sarah Young

HONOR AND MEMORIAL GIFTS

Honor Gifts

In Honor of Colin AdamsKimberly and Chris Adams

In Honor of All Those Who Fought for Equality in Education and Citizenship in Virginia

Lea Keener Cooper

In Honor of Ulysses S. AllenFloyd Bland

In Honor of BCHSMichelle Wright

In Honor of Joan BowersBonnie W. Bowen

In Honor of Martha CookGeorge and Susan Bagby

In Honor Grace Poindexter Forrest

Grace Poindexter Forrest

In Honor of Dr. Michael Giovannetti Family

Michael Giovannetti

In Honor of Janet HilliardTunstall Middle School

In Honor of Barbara JohnsDarlene Carr-Greene

In Honor of Cynthia Johnson

Nadine Kane

In Honor of Jean KonzalGregory Konzal

In Honor of Clara LigonMartha Cook

In Honor of Princess MossBarbara Wilson

In Honor of My Children, Victoria and Garrison

Nicole Marie Lowe

In Honor of My Fifth Grade Students

Beverly Brown

In Honor of My StudentsKathy Buck

In Honor of Beblon ParksPatsy W. Coppins

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In Honor of David T. Patterson

David Patterson

In Honor of Herbert and Lillie Powell

Grady Powell

In Honor of Anita James Price

Leslie J.C. Adams

In Honor of Ralph Bunche Alumni Association

Urzetta Lewis

In Honor of Roanoke CityLeslie J.C. Adams

In Honor of Robert James Scott

Janice Scott Thomas

In Honor of Wallace Stettinius

R.H. Bunzl, III

In Honor of The StudentsDoris Walker

In Honor of Edna WiseBeverly B. Abbott

Memorial Gifts

In Memory of Pearl Carrington Allen

Janice Scott Thomas

In Memory of Vera AllenShirley Blackwell

In Memory of Alexander & Katie Bigger

Annie Wilkins

In Memory of Hazel Suckins Brown

Louanna Suckins Dennis

In Memory of Fred and Lucille Carson

Claudette Carson

In Memory of Frances Charleton

Turner Taylor

In Memory of J.B. FuquaRuth Murphy

In Memory of The Green-Moore-Moton-Spencer Family

Edna Spencer-Outlaw

In Memory of Joyce GunnPatricia Adams

In Memory of Grace GordonRobert Gordon

In Memory of Marian HenryGeneva Banks

In Memory of Oliver HillJohn Kern

In Memory of Douglass Holmes

Charlie Holmes

In Memory of Pauline Carpenter Houston

Clarence Carpenter

In Memory of Mr. Boyd Jones

Robley Shelton Jones

In Memory of John JonesMay Jones

In Memory of Thomas Mayfield

George and Susan BagbyJennifer HallidayThomas MayoMarilyn OsbornAltheldra SmithRobert and Mary TrumbullAlberta White

In Memory of Freda McCombs

Robert AldenCarolyn M. BarrySandra BreilMartha CookCarolyn CraftRobert DenglerGeorge ElliottMarureen W. FauxRex ForehandAngeline FrankTracy D. FreyJoanna C. GentrySharon Green-HennessyDavid HaddadDavid HarrisMaurice HillJacqueline HuntCrystal KennyCecil KiddLoyola University MarylandIlona McGuinessMichael RichardsLisa A. Schoenbrodt-MyersTerrence and Darby SorberLillie M. West

In Memory of Charles W. Parks

Beblon Goodloe Parks

In Memory of LaVerne Pervall

Treva Russ

In Memory of Barbara Johns Powell

Nancy Moore

In Memory of Ethel ReddTreva Russ

In Memory of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Tate, Jr.

Karen T. Armstead

In Memory of William Trumbull

Robert Trumbull

In Memory of Carolyn Varner-Baldwin

Lawrence Varner

In Memory of Celeste Villanova

Vilma Almadio

In Memory of Grace WardLacy Ward, Sr.

In Memory of Rachel Weddington

Carolyn Hubbard- Kamunanwire

Deborah Yaffe

In Memory of Fletcher White

Ernestine White

In Memory of Vesta WhiteJames Richard White

In Memory of Celeste WileyJean BeckLawrence CheckKathleen DolanEmma FochtJill FreymullerMarybeth GallagherSandra LevThomas PaschPatrica Thomas

In Honor of Edna Wise Beverly B. Abbott

In Memory of Donte Woodson

Martha Cook

CHALLENGE GIFTS

Virginia Education Association Challenge

Beverly B. AbbottKimberly and Chris AdamsLeslie J.C. AdamsJames AmaralJennifer P. AndrewsKaren T. ArmsteadGeneva BanksAshley BarkerKitty J. Boitnott

Honor Roll of Donors continued

Honor Roll of Donors continued

Carolyn Y. BoothBonnie BowenThomas BradyOra BriggsBeverly BrownDaniel Nixon BrownJacqueline BrownKathy BuckJanice BurguieresDarlene Carr-GreeneDorothy M. CarterIris C. CarterMargaret Ann ChapiaRichard L. ClarkEthel R. ColesEileen ColihanLea Keener CooperPatsy W. CoppinsDavina CopsyShirley Cordell-RobinsonKathleen CroweChris DanielJanet Maloney DawsonChelsey L. DewsLee DormanLori EllisonNancy K. FergusonLouise A.P. FishbeinPhilip R. ForgitLloliza Forrest-MarshallWendell FosterFrancis FourieMary GaddisShirley GeorgeClineth GravesRoger Gray

Jill GrissomPatricia GrossoMary GruberAmy M. HarrisRon HatzenbuehlerRonny G. HerrigErnest M. HolleyJoyce HopkinsDana HouckMary HowarthKenya HuffmanGeorge M. HurtJennie JamesShelley JenningsHelen JohnsonStella Little JohnsonRobley Shelton JonesTerry JonesJoAnn KarshCharlotte KelsoDavid KinsellaUrzetta LewisSheila LopezNicole Marie LoweDawn LucasBarbara B. MannWilberta Gibson McCoyT. E. OkaforBeblon Goodloe ParksGail PittmanAnita PriceSidney RobinsonJennifer RokaskyRobin RubioClaire ScholzAlice Showalter

Marianne SimpsonBarbara SmithBruce SmithCarolyn R. SmithEdna Spencer-OutlawLois Harvey StantonLatasha SuggsTunstall Middle SchoolJeremy B. UttDoris WalkerMattie F. WalkerDeborah WardMarie F. WeberCarol J. WellingtonErnestine WhiteLinda WhitehurstSteve WhittenBarbara WilsonEdith O. Wright Michelle Wright

Family Challenge (Participating Families)

E.B. Allen FamilyThomas and Daisy Allen

FamilyBaker FamilyBland FamilyCarpenter FamilyCarthorne FamilyCobbs FamilyColes FamilyGaines Family

Hamlin FamilyHolcomb FamilyJohns FamilyLancaster FamilyG.P. Morton FamilyMoton FamilyNunnally FamilyOdom FamilyPaige FamilyPatterson FamilyRandolph FamilyReed FamilyReid FamilySaunders FamilyScott-Carrington FamilySmith FamilySuckins FamilyStokes FamilyTaylor FamilyWard FamilyWest FamilyWhite FamilyWiley FamilyWoodson FamilyWoolridge FamilyWomack FamilyYoung Family

In-Kind Gifts

Altria GroupAwesome Party SuppliesCentra HospitalDominionFarmville Area Chamber of

CommerceFuqua SchoolGrants Glass, Inc.Hampden-Sydney CollegeKinex Networking SolutionsLongwood UniversityMartha E. Forrester Council

of WomenPrince Edward CountyPrince Edward County

Branch NAACPPrince Edward County

Public SchoolsProject Management

Institute, Central Virginia Chapter

Putney MechanicalTown of FarmvilleVirginia’s Retreat

Statement of ActivitiesYears ended December 31

A compilation was completed by Financial Accounting Services, Ltd. To receive a copy of the compilations, please contact Lori Blackwood, (434) 315-8775, ext. 4.

2011 2010 2009 2008 2007

Revenue, gains, and other support Government 125,958 146,337 106,251 16,865

 Individuals/Private Organizations 537,389 1,214,487 495,759 357,126 17,235

 Other Income 7,040 7,685 14,208 4,273 10,404

Total revenues, gains, and other support

670,387 1,368,509 616,218 378,264 27,639

Expenses Salaries and Benefits 210,457 196,227 168,918 65,588

 Consultants 132,266 202,362 126,821 71,522 2,947

 Operations 310,625 265,829 167,390 91,973 21,654

Total expenses 653,348 664,418 463,129 229,083 24,601

Assets/Liabilities Unrestricted 1,719,368 1,746,484 1,041,037 884,486 732,258

 Liabilities (5,563) (5,514) (4,160) (1,466)

Net Assets, end of year 1,713,805 1,740,970 1,036,887 883,020 732,258

President Barack Obama signs a proclamation to designate Ft. Monroe, in Hampton, Virginia, a National Monument, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington on November 1, 2011. Pictured with the President from left are: Adam Goodheart, Civil War Historian, Washington College; Rep. Scott Rigell (R-Va.); Rep. Bobby Scott (D-Va.); Mayor Molly Ward, Hampton, Va.; Secretary Ken Salazar; Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.); Lacy Ward, Jr., Director, Robert Russa Moton Museum, Farmville, Va.; and Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO). (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Moton is a local story with national, perhaps in-ternational, implications. Our history is America’s history. This point was brought home November 1, 2011 when I traveled to the White House to witness President Barak Obama’s signing of a Proclamation designating Fort Monroe a National Monument.

I attended in my capacity as a Virginia advisor to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, but somehow it seemed appropriate that a representative of Moton also be in attendance. I was fortunate to be able to fulfill both roles.

One of the stories of Fort Monroe is that of Major General Benjamin Butler, an attorney, and his “con-traband decision.” Enslaved Americans Shepard Mallory, Frank Baker, and James Townsend es-caped Confederate lines in May of 1861, arriving at the fort. Butler refused to return the three to their owners, declaring them “contraband of war.” Throughout the Civil War hundreds of thousands of enslaved Americans similarly sought refuge under this doctrine, a precursor to both the Emancipation Proclamation and the Thirteenth Amendment.

Mallory, Baker, Townsend and Butler are the fore-runners of Johns, Stokes, Hill and Robinson.

Moton’s Place in American History

Ninety years after the “contraband decision” stu-dents at Moton sought relief from segregation. They, like those at Fort Monroe, placed their trust in the hands of attorneys. Oliver Hill and Spotswood Robinson were more than up to the task. They, their firm, and the NAACP were there for three U.S. Supreme Court decisions in 10 years concerning Moton — Brown (1954), Brown (1955), and Griffin (1964).

Moton’s role in defining — I dare say — redefin-ing American citizenship during the Civil Rights Movement is our unique contribution to civics edu-cation. Moton is home to the only case in Brown v. Board initiated by students. Moton initiated civic protest predating Rosa Parks, the Greensboro sit-ins, Birmingham, and the Selma voting rights march. Moton was a school building in the only public school system in America to be shuttered for five years (1959–64) in opposition to desegregation. It is time to tell Moton’s story.

Like the recently reclaimed history of the “contra-band decision” it is time to reclaim the Moton story and move it to the forefront of civics education. There is no other way for us to come to fully know ourselves as Americans. This is why we now launch the Moton for America initiative.

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Virginia Civil Rights Memorial by Stanley Bleifeld, bronze on a granite base. (Photo courtesy of Virginia Department of General Services)

Moton for America is the museum’s plan over the next decade to harness the powerful lessons drawn from a seminal series of events in the American Civil Rights Movement — the 1951 Moton Student Strike and the 1959–64 Prince Edward County, Vir-ginia Public School closings — to globally inform and improve civics education. Students around the world will learn to utilize an important chapter in American history as a lens through which to under-stand and apply modern civic engagement tactics in a personal context. Building upon recent improve-ments to the Moton campus and future capital in-vestments, the plan calls for developing curricular and pedagogical strategies and scholarship which carry the story of Prince Edward County students’ challenge, steadfastness and triumph into the world’s classrooms.

Telling the Story means bringing into the grand narrative of the Civil Rights Movement the lesser known, local sagas such as the Barbara Johns-led Moton Student Strike which produced the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education and the five-year public school closings which directly impacted some 4,000 Prince Edward County school-aged youth over a five-year period.

Moton for America: Telling the Story … Teaching the Teachers …

Teaching the Teachers is the means by which Moton will transmit its meaning and application. Moton will develop competitive teacher institutes, a fellow-ship program, a proprietary policy-based pedagogi-cal approach to teaching the Civil Rights Move-ment, and digital archives and online resources rich in the personal triumphs of children of the era, each designed to strengthen Moton’s position in the edu-cators’ professional development marketplace.

Moton began in earnest in 2008 with plans to greatly improve its campus and prepare for increased onsite and online visitation. In the years since, $3 million has been invested in restoration of the historic au-ditorium, renovation of classrooms for gifts shop and office use, preparation of permanent exhibit galleries, and electrical and mechanical upgrades. Staff has grown to include three full-time and five part-time employees along with a host of volunteers.

Planning for the future, Moton in 2012 is convening a working group of leading professionals to begin strategizing for the creation of a system of expanded programming and online content delivery. Their work will include recruiting a board of trustees who will assume leadership in 2013 and begin to broaden the museum’s horizon.

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Moton for AmericaANNUAL REPORT 2010 AND 2011

Robert Russa Moton Museum900 Griffin BoulevardP. O. Box 908Farmville, Virginia 23901

www.motonmuseum.orginfo@motonmuseum.org 434-315-8775