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    <unittitle>Essay, "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957"</unittitle>
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      <persname role="aut" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Anderson, Estelle V. </persname>
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    <unitdate calendar="gregorian" certainty="inferred" datechar="creation" era="ce" normal="1973/1973">Essay</unitdate>
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    <head>Content Description</head>
<p>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 includes lists of family names and biographical sketches of a number of the African American community members. Churches mentioned are Cedar Hill Baptist Church, a church on Black's Creek, the former Collierstown Baptist Church, Oxford and Collierstown Presbyterian Churches. A number of former African American schools are also described.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Access</head>
<p>This collection is available for research use.</p>  </accessrestrict>
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    <head>Conditions Governing Use</head>
<p>The materials from Washington and Lee University Special Collections are made available for use in research, teaching, and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright law.  The user assumes full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.  Any materials used should be fully credited with the source.  Permission for publication of this material, in part or in full, must be secured with the Head of Special Collections.</p>  </userestrict>
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    <head>Preferred Citation</head>
<p>Preferred citation: "Colored People in Buffalo District, 1890 - 1957", by Estelle V. Anderson, WLU Coll. 0664, Special Collections and Archives, James G. Leyburn Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA<p>In some cases the citation format may vary. Please contact Special Collections' staff to verify the appropriate format.</p>  </p>
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    <subject source="fast">African American Baptists</subject>
    <subject source="fast">African American Sunday schools</subject>
    <subject source="fast">Schools</subject>
    <subject source="fast">African Americans -- Segregation</subject>
    <famname source="lcnaf">Anderson family  </famname>
    <corpname rules="aacr" source="local">Cedar Hill Church (Rockbridge, Va.)</corpname>
    <corpname rules="aacr" source="local">Virginia--Collierstown</corpname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Beal family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Alexander family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Boss family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Caruthers family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Cook family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="local">Crutchfield family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Davis family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="local">Garry family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Evans family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Johnson family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Merchant family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Morrison family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Parker family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Spencer family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Washington Family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="local">Checkwood family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Lee family</famname>
    <famname rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Jackson family</famname>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="local">Beal, Lee</persname>
    <persname rules="aacr" source="local">Morrison, Sam</persname>
    <persname role="ctb" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Beal , Leroy</persname>
    <persname role="ctb" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">McCutcheon, Ophelia Beal</persname>
    <persname role="ctb" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Beal, Lily</persname>
    <persname role="ctb" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">Moore (Alice Morrison)</persname>
    <persname role="ctb" rules="aacr" source="lcnaf">McCown, Mary Montgomery</persname>
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