Jennings Ordinary is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

in Nottoway County,

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, United States. It was also known as Jennings Store. William Henry Jennings, with his wife Mary Pulliam, established the Jennings Ordinary in Amelia County, VA, where they raised a large family. 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

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, 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.

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Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Nottoway County, Virginia {{NottowayCountyVA-geo-stub