Template:On this day/June 21

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June 21:

  • 1901 – The Virginia Constitutional Convention meetings began and continued for over a year. J. H. Lindsay and W. H. Boaz represented Albemarle County and the City of Charlottesville in the House of Delegates. The major question before the delegation was how to bring about African-American disfranchisement without technically violating the 14th and 15th amendments to the United States Constitution.
  • 1908 – A Grand Rally and Reunion of Confederate veterans was held at Scottsville; over 2000 people gathered to greet the veterans at the campgrounds located near the burial sites for 40 Confederate soldiers who died in local hospitals during the Civil War.
  • 2019Karenne Wood, Native American anthropologist, died.
  • 2023 – A delegation from Winneba, Ghana, Charlottesville’s Sister City, visited Charlottesville.