Until this past weekend, there was only one place you had a chance to see all of Virginia’s living governors come together in the same place, and that was at the inauguration of the next one.
But on May 17, in commemoration of the anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling desegregating schools and commemorating Virginia’s role in that case, there they all were, Democrats and Republicans sitting together, sharing the commonality that comes from being part of a group of only 74 Virginians that includes names like Payne and Jefferson.
All were there except for one glaring absence, especially considering the occasion.
Nowhere to be found was the United States’ first black governor, not to mention a descendant of slaves and the first black governor of a former Confederate state, L. Douglas Wilder. Nowhere to be found at the…
