vrc_pec_188 188 pec vrc yes Ball field adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, Farmville, Va., 1991 Peeples, Edward H. (Edward Harden), 1935- R.R. Moton High School (Farmville, Va.) Mary E. Branch Elementary School No. 2 (Farmville, Va.) Baseball fields--Virginia--Farmville--History--Pictorial works Sports facilities--Virginia--Prince Edward County Ball field on S. Main Street in Farmville, Va., adjacent to Robert R. Moton High School, which was known as Mary E. Branch Elementary School #2 for African Americans in 1963. This is one of the two sites where the Richmond Volunteers to Prince Edward County conducted recreational and educational activities for school-less African Americans teenage boys in 1961-1962. In the background is the previous African American high school, and the cemetery where L. Francis Griffin, Jr. is buried. Longwood College had taken possession of the field by 1998. 37.2924846,-78.3961863 Local identifier: pec104.tif Richmond, Va. : VCU Libraries VCU Libraries. JBC Special Collections Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools Project (VCU Libraries) 2010 Color photographs http://dig.library.vcu.edu/u?/pec,188 Color negative 6 x 9 cm. image/tiff Scanned with Epson Expression 10000 XL, using Photoshop CS4, at 24-RBG color, 2400 dpi Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools 1991 Farmville (Va.) Prince Edward County (Va.) http://www.library.vcu.edu/copyright.html 20130517 120326