Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...victory for civil rights came 338 years, to the week, after the first shipment of Negro slaves to the British colonies landed at Jamestown, Va...
Dodd, of Ashland, Va. and Chicago; their son Robert...
...women's division of the Negro A.T.A. national championships. She was beaten in the finals by Roumania Peters, a Tuskegee Institute instructor, but her tremendous potential as a tennis player caught the attention of two A.T.A. officials: Dr. Robert Johnson, a general practitioner from Lynchburg, Va., and Dr. Hubert Eaton, a surgeon from Wilmington, N.C. Dr. Johnson took Althea aside and asked bluntly: "How'd you like to play at Forest Hills some...
With the help of Rural Development, many farmers are learning to be better farmers. In Lewis County, W. Va., Rural Development last year helped twelve farmers buy 146 Western ewes. In one season they made enough from their lambs and wool to pay back the loan, this year will pocket a sizable profit from their almost vertical hillside pastures...
...Asked Congress to appropriate $35 million for a second Washington municipal airport at Burke, Va., 17 miles southwest of the capital, to ease nearby National Airport's traffic load, which has almost doubled since...