Jennings Ordinary, Virginia

Jennings Ordinary is an unincorporated community in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. It was also known as Jennings Store.

Jennings Ordinary
Unincorporated community
Jennings Ordinary, April, 2015
Jennings Ordinary
Location within the state of Virginia
Jennings Ordinary
Jennings Ordinary (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°13′22″N 78°8′44″W
CountryUnited States
StateVirginia
CountyNottoway
Elevation
502 ft (153 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS ID1493142[1]

William Henry Jennings, with his wife Mary Pulliam, established the Jennings Ordinary in Amelia County, VA, where they raised a large family.[2]

In the summer of 1965, a house at 6313 Patrick Henry Highway in Jennings Ordinary became the first headquarters of the Virginia Students' Civil Rights Committee (VSCRC), a biracial organization of Virginia College students that grew out of a conference held at Hampton Institute in December 1964 by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), designed to move the experience of Mississippi's Freedom Summer project to Virginia.

In June, 1965, SNCC staffers Stokely Carmichael, Charlie Cobb and Chuck Neblett visited the house at Jennings Ordinary to train the students gathered there in the skills of community organizing. Part of their advice was to move out into several counties in the Southside Virginia Black Belt, which was done for the rest of VSCRC's existence in the 1960s.

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jennings Ordinary, Virginia
  2. "William Henry Jennings". geni_family_tree. Retrieved 2018-04-25.


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