The Civil Rights Movement in Virginia was an exhibition during 2004 at the Virginia Historical Society. It was also a traveling exhibition through 2006.
Collection Principles
This exhibition contains items from Virginian history during the Civil Rights Movement. The site is divided into different issues, events and people such as The Jim Crow Laws, Hampton Institute and Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. DuBois and the NAACP, and Brown I and Brown II.
There is no description regarding the images and content chosen for the exhibit.
Object Characteristics
Once you click on the subject heading you are taken to a page with related images and description of the topic. There is also a description that corresponds to the images.
The images can be enlarged into another screen but the size is not much larger than the image on the exhibition page. You cannot zoom in and out on the images.
Metadata
There is very little metadata accompanying the images. Next to the image there is always a title and listing of who lent the image such as the newspaper or the person or institution.
Intended Audience
One of the intended audiences is teachers teaching the Civil Rights Movement to their students. There is a link specifically for middle school and high school teachers that displays a number of links to related sites on the Civil Rights Movement.
I found this website to be very simple and basic. It was easy to navigate, but the metadata was very poor which might be due to the fact that most of the images were not housed at the Virginia Historical Society.
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