📸 Farmville, Virginia – 1933 This powerful photograph captures a moment frozen in American history. A moonshiner stands beside his copper pot still, freshly seized. A lawman stands next to him — the prisoner handcuffed directly to the officer — on the courthouse steps in Farmville, VA. No squad cars. No radios. Just duty, courage, and the rule of law in the middle of Prohibition-era America. Back then, illegal distilling was common across Virginia. Moonshiners worked the backwoods, while office

The Virginia episodes of the U.S. Civil Rights Trail podcast are live everywhere you stream podcasts! What happened here changed the course of history. Learn more about everyday Virginians whose fight for Civil Rights made a national impact. Listen to first hand accounts as well as historians as they cover key Civil Rights events in Farmville, Fredericksburg, Danville, and Richmond. Listeners can find the series by searching for “U.S. Civil Rights Trail Podcast” on all major podcast platforms, i