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<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/a> <\/a> Virginians\u2019 Inventions includes the following topics: Chapter 2: Maggie Lena Walker<\/strong> Maggie Lena Walker includes the following topics: Chapter 3: Harry F. Byrd Sr.<\/strong> Harry F. Byrd Sr. includes the following topics: Chapter 4: Arthur Ashe<\/strong> Arthur Ashe includes the following topics:<\/p>\n Where did Arthur Ashe grow up? <\/a><\/p>\n Explore the progress of civil rights in America in the 20th Century by learning about some famous Virginians. Maggie Lena Walker was the first woman to be president of a chartered bank in America. Harry F. Byrd Sr. opposed the … Continue reading
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\n![\"Maggie](\"\/images\/comics\/vital-virginians-2.gif\" "\\"Maggie")
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\nChapter 1: Virginian Inventions<\/strong>
\nAfter the American Revolution, Virginia\u2019s agricultural base begins to change. Tobacco farming is hard on the soil, causing many to look for new ways to grow crops or for new jobs to do. Thomas Jefferson and Cyrus McCormick invent better farming tools. Lewis Temple helps others farm the seas. Other Virginians turn their creative problem-solving skills to other areas . . .<\/p>\n
\nWhat did Thomas Jefferson invent?
\nWhat did Cyrus McCormick invent?
\nWho made a better whale harpoon?
\nWhat did Matthew Maury create?
\nWho discovered yellow fever\u2019s cause?<\/p>\n
\nAfrican-Americans have trouble using their rights in the time between the Civil War and World War II. \u201cJim Crow\u201d laws make it hard for them to vote or mix with white people in public. Despite this, Richmond\u2019s Maggie Lena Walker finds a way to help African-Americans make economic choices for themselves…<\/p>\n
\nWhere did Maggie Walker live?
\nWhat does a producer do?
\nWhat could a penny buy in 1902?
\nHow can you get free money?
\nIs Maggie Walker\u2019s bank still going?<\/p>\n
\nHarry F. Byrd, Sr., an apple grower from the western part of Virginia, becomes governor and follows a \u201cPay As You Go\u201d policy for road improvements in the 1920s. He modernizes Virginia\u2019s government offices. But he massively resists change when he becomes a United States senator for Virginia and the U.S. Supreme Court says all public schools should be desegregated . . .<\/p>\n
\nWho ran \u201cThe Organization?\u201d
\nWho said separate was unequal?
\nWho created Massive Resistance?
\nDid Massive Resistance work?
\nHow fast did Virginia integrate?<\/p>\n
\nArthur Ashe is a young Richmond man with the natural skills to take advantage of the civil rights progress of the 1950s. He becomes the first African-American winner of a major men\u2019s singles tennis championship. Ashe is also an author and eloquent speaker for social change. He coaches America\u2019s Davis Cup team against other nations in the 1980s but then gets AIDS and faces the toughest contest of his life . . .<\/p>\n
\nHow did Arthur Ashe play better?
\nWho won the first U.S. Open?
\nWhen did Ashe win Wimbledon?
\nWhy did Arthur Ashe stop playing?<\/p>\nView the\u00a0Teaching Guide<\/a>\u00a0for this Comic<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"