Monuments Project: Community Contributions
If you were in Richmond in 2020 – 2022 during the monuments’ removals, you were part of history. Make your story part of public knowledge! At our community contribution events this fall, library staff will be on hand to assist you with submitting any of the following to Richmond Public Library’s Digital Special Collections:
·Photos and videos (bring digital or physical copies)
·Documents (bring digital or physical copies)
·Signs, flyers, or other ephemera (bring digital or physical copies)
·A brief oral history (we will have the capability to record video and audio on the spot)
·Written histories and memories (we will have submission forms)
The Monuments Collection is a multimedia collection of documents, images and oral histories related to the removal of Confederate Monuments in Richmond between 2020 and 2022. Right now, the collection is comprised of government records and documentary footage of the monuments in storage. A fuller story must be told and preserved. All community contributions to the library’s collection will be digital copies, with originals retained by donors.
The Monuments Collection is available to the public via Richmond Public Library’s Digital Special Collections: https://rvalibrary.contentdm.
Richmond Public Library provides public access to materials via a digital collections platform, unless otherwise stipulated by the donor. You can, without permission, copy, modify, distribute, display, or perform the digital object, for non-commercial uses.
Contact MemoryLab@rva.gov or 804-646-1609 for more information.
- Date:
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025
- Time:
- 6:00pm - 8:00pm
- Location:
- Hull Street Meeting Room
- Categories:
- Civic Life Richmond Room
- Audience:
- Adults Seniors Teen (ages 13-18)
Meldon Jenkins-Jones is the Richmond Public Library / Community Services Manager at Hull Street Branch Library.
Meldon also chairs the Get Lit Advisory Committee which supports the Richmond Public Library Get Lit Reading Initiatives including the Black Male Emergent Readers (BMER) program and the Lit Chicks Read book clubs.
Meldon is a graduate of the Leadership Metro Richmond Class of 2022. She was the first recipient of the Virginia Library Association (VLA) Librarians of Color Forum Award in 2021 and is an active member of VLA. She presented “Libraries Bringing Community Together” at the 2023 VLA Annual Conference.
In 2011, Meldon received her Master of Library and Information Studies from Florida State University. She received her Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University School of Law—Newark and practiced law in New Jersey until her retirement in 2003. Meldon received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, where she studied African American Studies and Russian Civilization.
A Metro Richmond resident, Meldon is the mother of two adult children and enjoys spending time with her grandchildren.
