The JXN Project

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Across
  1. 2. Boulevard (Leigh Street from Belt Boulevard to 3rd Street) named after the “Father of Tapology, who was a Black performer born in Jackson Ward in 1878. . He was inducted in the National Museum of Dance Hall of Fame and a “National Tap Dance Day” was declared by the US Senate to commemorate his birthday.
  2. 3. (Clay Street from 2nd Street to 3rd Street) named after the first Black attorney certified to practice law before the Virginia Supreme Court in 1887
  3. 9. (St.James Street from Charity Street to Hill Street) named after the first Black actor (born in Jackson Ward) to be honored by the Drama League in 1920-followed by the NAACP Spingarn Medal in 1921 and honors by President Warren G. Harding
  4. 13. (2nd Street from Broad Street to Marshall Street) named after a Black woman who founded and led the open mic poetry series called Tuesday Verses, which began at Tropical Soul and then moved to Addis Ethiopian.
  5. 15. Co-creator of The JXN Project, Founder/Creative Director of the Afrikana Film Festival, assistant curator of film and special programs at the ICA-VCU, and Founder of BLK RVA, which is a Richmond Region Tourism Initiative to highlight Black culture in the city.
  6. 16. (E Clay Street and W Clay Street) named after a Black woman who was the first Black educator with Richmond Public Schools in 1872.
  7. 17. (2nd Street from Leigh Street to Clay Street) named after a Black-business owner of the Hotel Eggleston ( now The Eggleston Hotel), which was featured in the 1947 edition of The Negro Motorist Green Book.
Down
  1. 1. (3rd Street from Leigh Street to Jackson Street) named after the founder of A.D. Price Funeral Establishment in Jackson Ward and one of the first Black funeral directors to receive a state embalming license in 1894
  2. 4. (3rd Street from Leigh Street to Clay Street) named after a Black editor of the black-owned Richmond-Planet newspaper who ran for governor in 1921and was elected a city alderman for Jackson Ward in 1892
  3. 5. (Judah Street from Leigh Street to Duval Street) named after a freed Black Richmonder who soon after 1789 was the owner of one of the earliest dwellings in what would become Jackson Ward.
  4. 6. Co-creator of The JXN Project, Director of diversity, equity, and inclusion at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Maryland & Curator of a blog on Instagram called @ Angry Black Female
  5. 7. (Marshall Street from 2nd Street to 3rd Street) named after a Black civil rights attorney who helped tried the case Brown v. Board of Education and became the first Black resident elected to the Richmond City Council in 1948.
  6. 8. (Broad Street from 3rd Street to Adams Street) named after the first Black woman to charter a bank in the U.S. - the St.Luke Penny Savings Bank- and serve as president.
  7. 10. (Chamberlayne Avenue and Jackson Street) named after the founder of the temperance society-turned insurance company called the Grand United Order of True Reformers in Richmond in 1876.
  8. 11. (St.John Street from Charity Street to Federal Street) named after the founder of the Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans (now called Friends Association for Children) in 1871, and an original member of First African Baptist Church after it’s split from First Baptist Church in 1841.
  9. 12. ( Charity Street from St.James Street to 1st Street) named after a Black woman who was a leading voice in fair housing practices in Richmond and received the Mothers of Courage Award from Mothers for Justice and Equality in 2016 while also running for mayor of Richmond
  10. 14. (Chamberlayne Avenue to Duval Street; this street designation was previously secured by Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church) named after a Christian preacher and founder of Sixth Mount Zion Baptist Church in Jackson Ward, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places