Shackelford married Virginia Minor Randolph, daughter of Dr. Wilson Cary Nicholas Randolph of Charlottesville, great-great-grandson of President Thomas Jefferson.

The National adopted the constitutional argument put forth by Francis and Virginia Minor at the Missouri Woman Suffrage Convention in St. Louis in October 1869.

From 1870 to 1875 several women, including Virginia Louisa Minor, Victoria Woodhull, and Myra Bradwell, attempted to use the Fourteenth Amendment in the courts to secure the vote ( Minor and Woodhull ) or the right to practice law ( Bradwell ), but they were all unsuccessful.

* John Minor Botts, U. S. Representative from Virginia

Virginia Minor, whose attempts to register as a voter gave rise to the Minor v. Happersett case

* Letter, November 4 1857 to Dr. James H. Minor of Virginia quoted in the entry

They are related to Matthew Fontaine Maury, Dabney Herndon Maury and the early and prominent Fontaine, Dabney, Brooke, Minor, Mercer, Herndon, Slaughter and Slayden families of Virginia, Tennessee, and Texas.

A regiment of Virginia Militia under Colonel George Minor was delayed by administrative confusion and arrived on the field only as the battle ended.

** 10th Virginia Militia Regiment, Colonel George Minor, 700 all ranks ( Arrived late and without ammunition and held in reserve )

She was daughter of Thomas and Margaret C. Winn Neale and the grand daughter of Richard Neale and Francis Underwood as well as Minor Winn and Betty Withers all of Virginia.

* Anderson, Virginia DeJohn, “ Thomas Minor ’ s World: Agrarian Life in Seventeenth-Century New England ,” Agricultural History, 82 ( Fall 2008 ), 496 – 518.

The son-in-law who married Virginia Maury Otey was Benjamin Blake Minor writer, educator, legal scholar, and fourth President of the University of Missouri.

The Potomac Nationals are a Minor League Baseball team located in Woodbridge, Virginia.

Halsey McLean Minor ( born 1964 in Charlottesville, Virginia, USA ) is a technology entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993 ( initial plans for the company began in 1992 ).

Minor attended Woodberry Forest School and the University of Virginia, where he was a member of St. Elmo Hall and received a degree in anthropology.

The Minor Basilica of Saint Mary of the Immaculate Conception, located in downtown Norfolk, Virginia is the oldest Roman Catholic parish community in the Diocese of Richmond.

Lawrence's position as Adjutant General ( militia leader ) of Virginia was divided into four offices after his death.

A successful planter, he was a leader in the social elite in Virginia.

Strongly opposed to the abolitionists who sought to end slavery in the U. S., Booth attended the hanging on December 2, 1859, of abolitionist leader John Brown, who was executed for leading a raid on the Federal armory at Harpers Ferry ( in present-day West Virginia ).

* 1831 – Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death in Virginia.

A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science, invention, architecture, religion and philosophy, interests that led him to the founding of the University of Virginia after his presidency.

* December 2 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

* August 25 – American Nazi Party leader George Lincoln Rockwell is assassinated in Arlington, Virginia.

** Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader ( b. 1585 )

** Alexander Whitaker, Virginia Colony religious leader ( d. 1616 )

Virginia Tsouderou, who became Deputy Foreign Minister in the Mitsotakis government, and journalist Giorgos Karatzaferis ( later the founder and leader of a right-wing party, LAOS ) claimed that terrorism in Greece was controlled by Papandreist officers of Hellenic National Intelligence Service ( the Greek security and intelligence service ), and named Kostas Tsimas ( the head of EYP ) and Colonel Alexakis as two of the supposed controllers of 17N.

Benjamin Harrison V ( April 5, 1726 – April 24, 1791 ) was an American planter and revolutionary leader from Charles City County, Virginia.

After the Revolution, Henry was a leader of the anti-federalists in Virginia.

It was named for Light Horse Harry Lee, the Governor of Virginia from 1791 to 1794, who was known as " Light Horse Harry " for his exploits as a leader of light troops in the American Revolutionary War.

Hampton was named for Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton, an important leader of the Virginia Company of London, for whom the Hampton River, Hampton Roads, Southampton County and Northampton County were also named.

The county was named after Richard Bland, a leader of Colonial Virginia whose arguments laid the intellectual foundation for freedom and independence from England.

Virginia surveyor William Byrd II, in his History of the Dividing Line Betwixt North Carolina and Virginia ( 1728 ), recorded a tradition of a former religious leader, which had been current among the Tuscarora tribe.

This settlement was named Mount Wollaston in honor of the leader, who soon after 1625 left the area bound for Virginia.

* Queen Anne ( Pamunkey chief ) ( c. 1650 – c. 1725 ), Native American tribal leader in colonial Virginia

* The Confessions of Nat Turner ( 1967 ), narrated by Nat Turner, the leader of an 1831 Virginia slave revolt ;

He was a leader of the Virginia Colony ( based at Jamestown ) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.

Logan was merely a war leader ...." Like his father, Logan maintained friendly relationships with white settlers moving from eastern Pennsylvania and Virginia into the Ohio Country, the region which is now Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, and western Pennsylvania.

In 1995, Mercer graduated from James Madison High School in Vienna, Virginia, where she was a track captain and a leader of the school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes.

* 1927 – The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

Founded in 1908 as a women's college, James Madison University was established by the Virginia General Assembly.

Virginia Woolf's legacy as well as " Adrienne Rich's call for women's revisions of literary texts, and history as well, has galvanized a generation of feminist authors to reply with texts of their own ".

The Mary Immaculate Hospital is aj acute care hospital, and was relocated to the Denbigh area of the city and offers a wide range of services, including minimally invasive surgery, orthopedic services, The Liver Institute of Virginia, and women's services.

Though a women's college, it offered a classical curriculum based upon what was being offered at the time by Amherst College, Brown University, and the University of Virginia.

* Mia Hamm, American women's soccer player, attended Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia.

Georgeann Wells, as a 6 ' 7 " junior playing for West Virginia University became the first woman to score a slam dunk in women's collegiate play, in a game against the University of Charleston on December 21, 1984.

Virginia Beach serves as home to two soccer teams, the Hampton Roads Piranhas, a men's team in the USL Premier Development League, and a women's team by the same name in the W-League.

The Virginia Beach Sportsplex, seating 11, 541 and opened in 1999, contains the central training site for the U. S. women's national field hockey team.

* The Hours is a novel of 1998, and a film released in 2002, portraying Virginia Woolf while writing Mrs Dalloway, and its impact in women's lives in the 1950s and the present day.

The most significant of these new staff members were Homer Rodeheaver, an exceptional song leader and music director who worked with the Sundays for almost twenty years, and Virginia Healey Asher, who ( besides regularly singing duets with Rodeheaver ) directed the women's ministries, especially the evangelization of young working women.

In 1944 the college became associated with the University of Virginia as its women's college.

The team has a sister organization, the Northern Virginia Majestics, who play in the women's USL W-League, and fields a team in the USL ’ s Super-20 League, a league for players 17 to 20 years of age run under the United Soccer Leagues umbrella.

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Muldaur is a 1960 graduate of Sweet Briar College, a small private women's school in central Virginia.

This suggestion has proven to be accurate as there are no public women's colleges in the United States today and, as a result of United States v. Virginia, the last all-male public university in the United States, Virginia Military Institute, was required to admit women.

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Martínez won her second Olympic silver medal in the women's doubles in 2004 in Athens, Greece ( partnering Virginia Ruano Pascual ).

Mary Baldwin College is a private, independent, and comprehensive four-year liberal arts women's college in Staunton, Virginia, USA.

Sun also competed in the 2004 Summer Olympics, defeating Conchita Martínez and Virginia Ruano Pascual of Spain in the women's tennis doubles final to win a gold medal along with her partner Li Ting.

In the fall of 1901, at Longwood University five friends, Virginia Lee Boyd-Noell ( Virginia Boyd ), Juliette Jefferson Hundley-Gilliam ( Juliette Hundley ), Calva Hamlet Watson-Wootton ( Calva Watson ), Louise Burks Cox-Carper ( Louise Cox ), and Mary Williamson-Hundley ( Mary Williamson ) decided to rush the local women's fraternities on campus.