Robert Russa Moton Museum

Before Selma, before Montgomery, there was Farmville, where young people made history. The Civil Rights movement came to Farmville, Virginia, thanks to the courage of students protesting inequality. The Robert Russa Moton Museum’s permanent exhibition, The Moton School Story: Children of Courage, tells the stories of the Prince Edward students who expanded the meaning of equality for all Americans.

Farmville Virginia’s former Robert Russa Moton High School, now a National Historic Landmark and museum, preserves and constructively interprets the history of Civil Rights in Education, specifically as it relates to Prince Edward County, and the leading role its citizens played in America’s transition from segregation toward desegregation/integration. Moton strives to promote dialogue and advance positions that ensure empowerment within a constitutional democracy.

The Robert Russa Moton Museum is a repository for historically significant materials that record Prince Edward County’s 13-year struggle to achieve Civil Rights in Education.

The Museum features exhibits that document and reflect upon the period of transition from segregation to desegregation/integration of public education with particular attention to events occurring from 1951 to 1964.

The Museum exists to commemorate the students and families whose courage and personal sacrifices brought about change.

The Museum serves future generations as an education center that delivers the story, a center for the study of Civil Rights in Education, and a provider of community outreach services to support area citizens.