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Welcome to Beloved Community Tours

Learn a more inclusive history with our online tour of significant sites in Charlottesville.

    Click on the above video to view a 1-minute introduction to our tours.

    Discover who we are

    Collage of narrators and collaborators of Beloved Community Tours.

    We’re a multi-racial group of people who came together around a common mission: to shine the light of truth on our community’s history.

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    Most of us are not professional historians or academics, but rather people who believe that learning a more inclusive local history is necessary in order to create a better, more equitable community.

    Facing the truth of our history allows us to move forward together.


    “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
    -- James Baldwin

    Gratitude

    The Beloved Community Tour is made possible in part by the financial support from these organizations:

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    Charlottesville's Vibrant Community Fund
    Harry D. Forsyth Foundation
    UVA Division for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
    UVA Karsh Institute of Democracy
    UVA Provost Office
    Virginia Humanities

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    We partner with Light House Studio in creating videos for the tour sites.

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