2024 Hall of Fame Inductee, Brenda Andrews Paul Lawrence Dunbar High School – Lynchburg, VA


2024 Hall of Fame Inductee, Ronald Carey
Jackson P. Burley High School -
Charlottesville, Virginia


2024 Hall of Fame Inductee, Michael Morse
Peabody High School –
Petersburg, Virginia


2024 Hall of Fame Inductee, James Mitchell
Langston High School –
Danville, Virginia


2024 Hall of Fame Inductee, General Leo Austin Brooks
Parker Gray High School – Alexandria, Virginia


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Jim Crow Era Achievers Honored 50+ Years Later

The Virginia Interscholastic Association (VIA) Hall of Fame was created in 2014 to recognize Virginia’s Black teachers, coaches [...]

Dr. Latorial Faison, KeyNote Speaker

Dr. Latorial Faison is a twenty-eight-year military spouse married to COL (Retired US Army) Carl J. Faison. They have three sons. [...]

Carl B. Jackson, Jackson P. Burley High School –Charlottesville, VA

Carl B. Jackson is a Charlottesville native and a 1956 graduate of Jackson P. Burley High School. Carl began playing with the Bur [...]

Eric R. “Duke” McCaskill, Sr, Huntington High School, Newport News, Virginia

Eric R. “Duke” McCaskill is a native of the East End of Newport News, Virginia. He attended the all black Huntington High Sch [...]

Alvin N. Puryear, George P. Phenix High School – Hampton, Virginia

Alvin N. Puryear, PhD. was a University educator, church, civic and community leader, and a distinguished alumni leader at Yale U [...]

Douglas M. Smith, George P. Phenix High School – Hampton, Virginia

Douglas Smith is a native of Hampton, Virginia. He attended George P. Phenix High School from 1957 – 1960. At Phenix, he was kn [...]

Walter “Rock” Greene, Jackson P. Burley High School – Charlottesville, Virginia

Walter “Rock” Greene was an incredible coach, mentor, and teacher at Jackson P. Burley High School in Charlottesville, Virgin [...]

Thomas Hooker, Southside High School – Dinwiddie, Virginia

Thomas Hooker was born in Raleigh, North Carolina as the youngest of seven children to Nathaniel Hooker Sr., and Della Hooker. Th [...]

Louis Johnson, Parker-Gray High School – Alexandria, Virginia

Louis Johnson was born in Lynchburg, Virginia and grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he attended Jefferson High School. [...]

Mary Winston Jackson, George P. Phenix High School – Hampton, Virginia

Mary Winston Jackson was born on April 21, 1921 in Hampton, Virginia. She grew up in Hampton where she was an honor graduate of G [...]

Frank J. Smith, Armstrong High School – Richmond, Virginia

Frank J. Smith grew up in Richmond, Virginia where he attended Armstrong High School. At Armstrong, he played four years of footb [...]

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