Lucian Louis Watts was a Virginia statesman who advocated for government services to support blind citizens. As the first Executive Secretary of the Virginia Department for the Blind and Visually...
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/public-welfare/watts-lucian-louis-1888-1974/
Nadia Bukach is a clinical M.S.W. student at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Mellon Foundation Social Welfare History Graduate Fellow at VCU Libraries. She earned her B.A. in Geography f...
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/biography/bukach-nadia/
Before the Newbury Center opened in 1957, there was no education available in a school setting in Richmond or the surrounding counties for children younger than five. Preschool itself was an inno...
Ora Brown Stokes founded and was the driving force behind the Richmond Neighborhood Association (RNA), an organization which has received little attention despite its centrality to social welfare...
Angela Lehman received a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001 and a Master of Arts in history from VCU in 2023. Between 2001 and 2013, she was a freelance j...
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/biography/lehman-angela/
This remembrance is excerpted from a forthcoming book by Willnette Cunningham being prepared in collaboration with Shruti Sathish, editor. Ms. Cunningham is an AIDS survivor and HIV Awareness Act...
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/recollections/lessons-from-the-real-me-willnette-cunningham/
Shruti Sathish graduated from the University of Richmond in 2023 with a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and minors in Health Studies and Mathematics. She is is passionat...
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/biography/sathish-shruti/
Willnette Cunningham is a retired postal worker, an AIDS survivor and HIV awareness activist. She has worked for more than 15 years to raise awareness of this infection and disease, to educate on...
https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/biography/cunningham-willnette/
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is charged with fulfilling the nation's promise to care for those who have served in our nation’s military, and for their families, caregivers, and survi...
When the United States purchased the Danish West Indies (now U.S. Virgin Islands) from Denmark in 1917, the change in the islands’ political status profoundly impacted the educational options a...