Pride Overcomes Prejudice considers the history of peoples of African descent in Charlottesville. Beginning with an examination of enslavement in Albemarle County, it suggests the importance of chattel labor by considering the conditions that allowed the area to become the 4^th richest slave holding region in the Commonwealth. It continues into the 19^th century by drawing on the oral and written histories of African Americans who participated in local, regional, and national struggles for racial equality as students, teachers, and alumni of Jefferson School, ca. 1865-1965 and beyond. Their memories, painstakingly recorded for each period of the school’s history, infuse the historic Jefferson School campus and surrounding cultural landscape with meaning and significance and provide a unique, intergenerational perspective that is largely missing from other Civil Rights/School Desegregation historic sites. The permanent exhibit.