Douglas Davis highlights the importance of community and talks about growing up in a family of ten children in Liberty Hill of Danville, Virginia. Watch the video to hear him discuss his parents, his siblings, and his grandmother, who was enslaved. Davis also talks about participating in Bloody Monday. “We locked hands, we said, ‘We shall overcome,'” he recalls.
NewsVoices of the Dan River mini-documentary features oral histories with local Caswell County, NC residents Hosanna Blanchard, Joe Graves, Elizabeth Lassiter, Earl Richmond, and Vanessa “Twinkle” Richmond-Graves. Their stories explore …
NewsAs part of the Dan River History Harvest program in 2015, the Pittsylvania County Public Library initiated Tales Told Out of School, an effort to collect and archive items and …
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