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Essay, "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957"
Collection — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0664
Content Description
This collection is comprised of an eight page typescript essay titled "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957" by Estelle V. Anderson. The essay was written in 1973 and details African American schools, churches, and families of the Buffalo District of southwest Rockbridge County, Va., one of six former magisterial districts which included such communities and locales as Collierstown, Bolivar Mills or Murat, North and South Buffalo, Black's Creek, and Kyger's Hill. The essay...
Dates:
Essay; Other: Majority of material found within Time frame of coverage of essay
James Graham Leyburn Sunday School Lectures
Collection
Identifier: WLU-Coll-0624
Content Description
This collection consists of a small three ring binder of typescript Sunday school lectures by Dr. James G. Leyburn, one of Washington and Lee's most revered 20th century professors. Leyburn used this notebook to teach his class at the Lexington (Va.) Presbyterian Church from October 2, 1949 to the final class of the year on May 28, 1950. The lectures cover and introduction to the Bible, it's characters, and the tenets of Presbyterianism. In the final lecture, Leyburn details a transformative...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1949 - 1950