In 1961, the Revs. Virgil Wood and John Teeter stood together to voice a shared frustration and outrage over the segregation of Lynchburg.

Otis Tucker Jr. may have seen the movie “Remember the Titans,” but he didn’t live it.

In 1961, on a hot Fourth of July afternoon, six young boys showed up at Miller Park Pool, swim trunks in hand.

When Clarence W. “Dick” Seay decided to run for Lynchburg City Council in 1970, he printed and distributed a 10-point platform.

Rebecca Owen, a privileged daughter of the South who was taught integration should be brought about slowly, was a principal organizer of the “Patterson Six” sit-in and is remembered today as one of the pioneers of the local civil rights struggle.

The hour was late on Dec. 15, 1960, when 18-year-old Miriam Gaines walked into a downtown drug store and dared to do something she’d never done before — sit down.

One day in 1977, Garland-Rodes Elementary School principal Vivian Camm made local civil rights history.