Proposed Virginia license plate celebrates The Richmond Planet and Black excellence
The effort to honor a forgotten piece of Richmond history with a new license plate
By: Shelby Brown
and last updated 2021-03-04 11:20:31-05
RICHMOND, Va. - Stumbling across a newspaper article while conducting research for a historical highway marker, Reginald Carter got a lesson that he said was not in his history books growing up in Essex County.
The Virginia State University and University of Richmond graduate was exploring the details of a lynching in Essex.
He found proof in this 125-year-old article from a black-owned newspaper. The name of the paper was unfamiliar to him.
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