Gallery
Ed Peeples is a fan of history as captured by the camera, and an avid photographer himself. These photographs refer to people, places and stories mentioned in Scalawag – find out more when you read the book.

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Privy, Five Forks Elementary school in rural Prince Edward County, Virginia, epitomizing conditions southern black children endured under Jim Crow.

Doctor’s office in Farmville, Virginia, 1961.

Commonly expressed sentiments of angry segregationists, route U.S. 60, Powhatan County, Virginia, 1962

Remnants of Jim Crow, Richmond, Virginia, early 1970s.

June Shagaloff of the national NAACP, Ed’s inspiring and indomitable civil rights workshop leader at the Encampment for Citizenship, New York City, Summer 1957.

One of the signs planted by hatemongers in the Encampment for Citizenship dorm, Union College, Barbourville, Kentucky, during the tumultuous summer of 1966.

Confederistas march by Jefferson Davis statue in a Sons of Confederate Veterans parade on Richmond’s Monument Avenue, April 21, 2007.

Opening attraction for “Good News!”, a week of events organized by Ed under the auspices of the Richmond City Human Relations Commission, aimed at exhibiting and affirming examples of positive race and other intergroup relations in the city, 1983.

Congressman John Lewis and Ed at the commemoration of the long struggle for equality in Prince Edward County, Virginia, Farmville April 2006.

Governor Tim Kaine assuring Ed of further recognition of Virginia’s champions of Civil Rights, at the July 21, 2008 dedication of the Civil Rights Memorial in Capital Square.

Araceli, Natalie and Isak Rodriguez, Ed’s beloved grandchildren, 2013.

Edward Harwood, William Henry Brisbane and Levi Coffin, prominent abolitionists and Underground Railroad conductors in Ohio. Brisbane was Ed’s great, great uncle and a S.C. slaveholder who in 1835 turned abolitionist, 1853 image.

Ed’s father (1905-1986) and grandfather (1854-1926), all three named Edward H Peeples, about 1914.

Birthplace (1908-1986) of Ed’s mother, Lula Jane Stephens, Myakka Head, Manatee County, Florida.

An uneasy Ed when pulled over by Mississippi cop, 1969, Scalawag, pp 156-157

1878 New York Times account of vigilante acts by Ed’s great, great uncle, Edward H Peeples, and his great grandfather, William Brisbane Peeples, who as members of the Red Shirt Brigade and the Redemption Movement, sought to restore white supremacy in S.C.

Ed at the Virginia Civil Rights Memorial in Capital Square, October 2008

Ed with Ruby Clayton Walker, his freedom-loving sister and collaborator in countless civil rights efforts for a half century, at the Moton Museum in Prince Edward County VA, 1996

Ed amidst the Segregationists - his unremitting nightmare during the 1950s and 60s. Ed was known to dream in Technicolor.

The daily scene of dogs, police and picketers who were demonstrating against racial discrimination and the insulting practices aimed at blacks at Thalhimers Department Store in Richmond, VA.

Site where Ed joined the first Virginia Union University student sit-in at Thalhimers on Saturday February 20, 1960. He was thrown out of the store and no one was arrested until the students returned Monday.

Bob Young, Vincent Wright and Ed Peeples. Brothers of other mothers and fellow Justice Seekers for half a century, about 2007

John Stokes, student strike leader in Prince Edward County in 1951, at a Virginia Civil Rights Memorial Dedication event 7-21-08

Letter from Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. to Ed in 1957

Johnson’s Landing on the Savannah River in SC where Ed’s grandfather Peeples loaded his cotton crop on river boats for sale downstream in Savannah, GA.

A Kent Willis view of Ed Peeples, 1984

Ed’s Granddaddy Stephens’s birthday, on the Stephens hardscrabble farm in Florida back country, about 1946.

Reverend L Francis Griffin, Sr, the heroic and inspiring Civil Rights leader of the black struggle for racial equality in Prince Edward County VA

American Nazi Party Hate Bus, 1961. George Lincoln Rockwell and the Nazis from Arlington County VA, here about to be escorted by the National Guard out of Montgomery AL.

Temporary tar paper buildings with no central heat or running water were the official Prince Edward County answer to crowding in schools in the 1950s. This one is at Moton High School in Farmville.