Author Archives: Jefferson School African American Heritage Center

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center is hosting a series of two-day conversations on the subject of reparations, funded in part by a grant from Virginia Humanities. The fourth public lecture in the series will take place on May 17 at 6 PM.

Swords Into Plowshares is an innovative project to melt down the statue of Robert E. Lee that formerly stood in one of Charlottesville’s public parks and use the bronze to make a new work of public art.

The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center (JSAAHC), a Charlottesville, Virginia, non-profit organization, has submitted an offer to the Charlottesville City Council to acquire ownership of the city’s recently removed statue of Confederate general Robert E. Lee.