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She was born in Alderson, West Virginia, the 7th of eight children of Robert and Mamie Beckett Steele. She received a B.S. from the U. of Pittsburgh and a Master of Library Science from U. of California-Berkeley and taught many years in the Berkeley Public Schools. In 1964, responding to her friend Robert Moses' call for volunteers to join the Freedom Summer project to register disenfranchised Black voters in Mississippi, she and two other volunteers drove her VW bus from Berkeley, California to Oxford, Ohio for several days of non-violence training. One of her passengers, who became a life-long friend until his death, was Mario Savio who later was a leader of the University of California-Berkeley, Free Speech Movement. They left Oxford, Ohio for Mississippi shortly after the murder of civil rights workers Cheney, Schwerner and Goodman. As the only librarian volunteer she was assigned the responsibility of creating 'Freedom Libraries' from the thousands of books shipped to Black communities from northern donors. (African Americans in Mississippi were barred from public libraries.) Black children eagerly helped in packing and transporting the books to stores, barber shops, service stations and other public places. These young helpers dubbed Steele's Volkswagen bus 'The Freedom Bus.' In 1974 she purchased an abandoned mountain farm adjacent to the Monongahela National Forest in West Virginia, near Hillsboro, and spent the summers there writing and enjoying local events. Her articles were published in Wonderful West Virginia and Goldenseal. She encouraged the development of, participated in and subsequently became a generous benefactor of High Rocks, a year-round leadership development program, located on her farm, for rural high school girls. Its summer outdoor program is named Camp Steele in her honor."},{"label":"Search SCL Digital Archives for this Author","value":["Steele, Virginia, 1922-2006"]},{"label":"Search Author or Book in Library Catalog","value":"Search for works by Virginia Steele in the <a href=\"https://find.sonomalibrary.org/client/en_US/default/search/results?qu=%22Steele%2C+Virginia%22&te=&rt=false%7C%7C%7CAuthor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">library catalog</a>"},{"label":"Author Website","value":"View <a href=\"https://digital.lib.miamioh.edu/digital/collection/fstxt/id/625/rec/3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">personal or professional website</a> for Virginia Steele"},{"label":"Search Author in Open Library","value":"Search for works by Virginia Steele in <a href=\"https://openlibrary.org/search/authors?q=Steele+Virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Open Library</a>"},{"label":"Author's Place(s) of Residence","value":["Santa Rosa"]},{"label":"Sort Title","value":"Virginia Steele (1922-2006)"},{"label":"Significant Title","value":"Freedom Libraries of the Mississippi Summer Project"},{"label":"Digital Archives Identifier","value":"virginia_steele"},{"label":"Digital Archives Collection Name(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Date Added","value":"2016/10/09"},{"label":"Filename","value":"virginia_steele.jpg"},{"label":"Title","value":"Virginia Steele (1922-2006)"},{"label":"Item Type","value":["Text"]},{"label":"Item Format or Genre","value":["Biography files","Bibliographies","Portraits","Photographs"]},{"label":"Search SC Local Arts for this Author or Artist","value":"<a href=\"https://digital.sonomalibrary.org/documents?filter_363=virginia_steele&applyState=true\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Virginia Steele (1922-2006)</a>"},{"label":"Collection(s)","value":["Sonoma County Local Authors"]},{"label":"Author Name (Controlled)","value":["Virginia Steele (1922-2006)"]}],"description":"Virginia Steele (1922-2006)","sequences":[{"@type":"sc:Sequence","canvases":[{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/1777396e-68c3-4544-98b4-a3e3aa62a636/canvas/_1","@type":"sc:Canvas","label":"Virginia Steele (1922-2006)","height":400,"width":400,"images":[{"@type":"oa:Annotation","motivation":"sc:painting","resource":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/1777396e-68c3-4544-98b4-a3e3aa62a636/full/full/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","format":"image/jpeg","service":{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/context.json","@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/1777396e-68c3-4544-98b4-a3e3aa62a636","profile":"http://iiif.io/api/image/2/level2.json","tiles":[{"width":512,"scaleFactors":[1]}]},"height":400,"width":400},"on":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/1777396e-68c3-4544-98b4-a3e3aa62a636/canvas/_1","metadata":[]}],"thumbnail":{"@id":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/1777396e-68c3-4544-98b4-a3e3aa62a636/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","@type":"dctypes:Image","height":500,"width":500}}]}],"thumbnail":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/1777396e-68c3-4544-98b4-a3e3aa62a636/full/500,500/0/default.jpg","logo":"https://iiif.quartexcollections.com/sonomalibrary/iiif/logo"}