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  • Collection: Celebrating Simms Collection: The Story of the Lucy F. Simms School

simms00434-barbra-blakey.jpeg
A photo of Miss Barbara Blakey, a teacher at the Lucy F. Simms School.

simms00419-baseball-players.jpg
A photo of the Harrisonburg community baseball team. From back, left: Butch, Pat, Roscoe Burgess, Sr., Don Burgess, Pepper Stroke, Ronald Burgess. From middle, left: Albert Jackson, Clarence Whitelow, Linwood Tuckson, Bob, Wilmer Byrd, Woodrow…

simms00264-baseball-team.jpg
A photo of a group of young men in baseball uniforms posing outside of the Lucy F. Simms School. Their names are handwritten over each of them. Front row: Bob Lee, Donald Ray, Carter Bundy, Sherman Curry, Roscoe Burgess Jr., and Bernard Burgess.…

simms00323-basketball-team-in-the-gym.jpg
A photo of a basketball team posing together with a middle-aged man in a suit inside a gymnasium. The younger boy on the left is identified as Billo Harper.

simms00406-bethel-ame-church.jpg
A photo of churchgoers posing outside of Bethel AME Church in Newtown.

simms00131-betty-broadus-and-date-at-prom.jpg
A photo of a well-dressed couple attending prom at the Lucy F. Simms School. The man has his arm around the woman, who is identified as Betty Broadus.

simms00464-birds-eye-view-of-harrisonburg.jpg
A postcard painting of Harrisonburg from a hillside.

simms00411-bobo-sampson-and-mary-lewis.jpg
A photo of Bobo Sampson and Mary Lewis sitting on a stoop in the 1940s.

simms00247-booker-t-washington-school.jpg
A photo of a large group of men of varying ages, all dressed the same, standing together on the stairs of a brick building and holding hats.

simms00151-boy-amongst-the-bushes.jpg
A photo of a young boy standing outside in the grass, smiling for the camera, with one hand tucked into a pocket.
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