Trailblazers of a New Era

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Dr. Joseph Endom Jones and Rosa Kinckle Jones, prominent educators in post-Emancipation Richmond, are buried here. Joseph Jones, enslaved at birth, taught at Virginia Union University for 45 years. A minister, he served as corresponding secretary of the Baptist Foreign Mission Convention and installed many Black clergymen in pastorates. His wife, Rosa, earned a teaching degree from Howard University and studied at the New England Conservatory of Music. She taught music at Hartshorn Memorial College for decades and led the Woman’s Union Beneficial Department, an insurance company. Their son Eugene Kinckle Jones led the National Urban League and in 1906 co-founded Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

Department of Historic Resources, 2022

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

Charles H. Corey, A History of the Richmond Theological Seminary (Richmond: J.W. Randolph Company, 1895), 174-178. Richmond Times Dispatch, 15 Oct. 1922, 26 June 1932, 12 Jan. 1954. Richmond Planet, 16 July 1898, 21 Oct. 1922. William J. Simmons, Men of Mark: Eminent, Progressive and Rising (Cleveland: Geo. M. Rewell and Co., 1887), 234-239. “A Founding Family, Part 3: The Joneses,” Virginia Union University Archives and Special Collections (https://vuuarchives.wordpress.com/2017/02/17/a-founding-family-part-3-the-joneses/#fn12) “Black Women at BU and Boston”: https://blackwomenatbuandboston.wordpress.com/2018/05/09/rosa-daniel-kinckle-jones/ Shennette Monique Garrett-Scott, “Daughters of Ruth: Enterprising Black Women in Insurance in the New South, 1890s to 1930s” (Ph.D. diss., University of Texas, 2011). Felix L. Armfield, Eugene Kinckle Jones: The National Urban League and Black Social Work, 1910–1940 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2012). Lancet, 15 July 1882. https://apa1906.net/our-history/