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Day 4: Fort Early
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Day 14: Desegregating Lynchburg's Swimming Pools
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Day 9: The History of Lynchburg's Confederate Monument
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Day 8: Jubal Early and the Lost Cause
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Day 3: Court Street Baptist Church, Part 1
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Day 9: Jubal Early and the Lost Cause, continued
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From the Archives: Fort Early
We can choose how we tell the stories about our past.
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Why a Bridge of Lament?
"We affirm that Black history is American history, without which we cannot understand our country’s fight for freedom or secure a more democratic…
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Share Your Story with Bridge of Lament
Stories of integration in Lynchburg area schools
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Silent Witnesses
A Lynchburg, Virginia, community event this coming Saturday
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Coming Soon in 2025
Promoting history and celebrating diversity, equity, and inclusion through daily narratives, poems, and essays between Juneteenth and Independence Day
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Lynchburg Votes!
"The fact that the Negro had now reached the stage where he could have a voice in the actual operation of the city’s government...inspired a new…
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Day 16: Rise, Celebrate, and Speak
We step off the bridge, but let us keep striving forward toward what we believe in.
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Daily readings between Juneteenth and Independence Day to remember, lament, and seek renewal for our city

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