Guest post by Diana Kim, WAHS Multicultural Club President and Crozet Public Library Teen Advisory Board officer The Jefferson School African American Heritage Center presents the soil from John Henry James’s lynching at the Crozet Library. The display features a digital presentation next to the display case where people will be able to learn about the history and the lynching of James. The exhibition provides pictures of documents, and guides the people through the events of what happened. According to the Daily Progress, the display case used to hold the statuette of Robert E. Lee; however, it now contains a jar of soil with history. The day James was lynched, a mob of white and black people stopped the train. He was heading back from Staunton, awaiting his charges of criminally assaulting a white woman in Charlottesville. The African Americans were there hoping to prevent the lynching. However, they were unsuccessful. James was lynched on July 12, 1898. To learn more about the lynching, visit the Crozet Library to see the display, or check out the Daily Progress article here.
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