RVAblues t1_jdzo3wa wrote on March 28, 2023 at 11:16 AM

Reply to comment by popeboyQ in What is up with Colonial Heights? by [deleted]

It was created as its own town when federal law made Petersburg schools integrate. The whites moved across the river and set up their own schools.

Freseper t1_jdztuml wrote on March 28, 2023 at 12:13 PM

The white flight from Petersburg absolutely happened, almost doubling Colonial Heights’ population, but it was incorporated 6 years before Brown so integration couldn’t have been the only reason for its existence.

popeboyQ t1_jdzo7aa wrote on March 28, 2023 at 11:17 AM

Wow, how fucked.

RVAblues t1_jdzocro wrote on March 28, 2023 at 11:18 AM

Yup. Scratch the surface of anything around here and there’s some effed up racist shit behind it.

BureauOfBureaucrats t1_je1apnc wrote on March 28, 2023 at 6:14 PM

You don’t even have to scratch. Just lightly breathe towards anything.

Mystic-333 t1_jdzoow8 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 11:22 AM

Thanks for that little history tidbit! Never knew why it carried that name.

popeboyQ t1_jdzosww wrote on March 28, 2023 at 11:23 AM

Lovely.

guiltyofnothing t1_je1hl0r wrote on March 28, 2023 at 6:57 PM

Just wait until you find out what used to be on Monument Avenue.