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Interactive Media

This website provides accessible and searchable digital access to the Celebrating Simms exhibits and its archive. It is also designed to showcase creative ways to explore the history and importance of the Simms School. Below, find a booklet, map, and timeline that provide different ways to experience the Celebrating Simms exhibit and the local and national history associated with it.

Companion Booklet

Click the image to the left to flip through the pages of our companion booklet, created in April 2016 to accompany the permanent exhibit in the Lucy F. Simms Continuing Education Center in Harrisonburg, Virginia.

Interactive Maps

Click the image to the left to browse important landmarks in African American history in Harrisonburg.
 
Click the image to the left to tour the original classrooms of the Lucy F. Simms School and learn more about the teachers who taught there.

Interactive Timeline

Click the image to the left to browse important moments in African American history in Harrisonburg and Virginia.