Template:On this day/September 19
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- 1953 – Nannie Cox Jackson, a former slave, prominent African-American educator, wealthy property owner and businesswoman, died (aged 88).
- 1858 – Joseph Fossett, a former enslaved man at Monticello who became a renowned blacksmith, died in Ohio. When Thomas Jefferson died in 1826, Joseph was one of only five enslaved people to be freed in his will.
- 1958 – Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. closes Lane High School and Venable Elementary School in Charlottesville to prevent desegregation.