Segregation & public facilities
The annexation that diluted Richmond's Black vote
Annexation effective 1970; decided 24 June 1975; ward elections 1977The 23 square miles annexed from Chesterfield County, south and west of the James, Richmond, VA
In 1970 Richmond annexed 23 square miles of Chesterfield County and 47,262 people, 1,557 of whom were Black, taking the city from 52 per cent Black to 42. The mayor had asked the county for assurances of at least 44,000 additional white citizens.
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.