A three-session course on "Gloucester County and Progressive Movements" will be held on consecutive Thursday afternoons next month at the Gloucester Library.

The course, sponsored by Rappahannock Community College Educational Foundation’s Rappahannock Institute for Lifelong Learning, will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. on March 3, 10 and 17. Fred Carter will teach the course.

Material will include the 1663 Slave and Indentures Rebellion, the Royal Africa Company’s role in colonial Virginia, early efforts by black residents to organize countywide relief, early business ventures by black freedmen, the founding and early efforts of the NAACP and the integration of Gloucester County schools, according to RCC spokesperson Tom Martin.

Carter, a Gloucester native who was educated at Temple University and the American Academy McAllister Institute of Funeral Service, is president of the Carter Funeral Home in Newport News.

He is a past chair of the Newport News Planning Commission, served as Gloucester’s first black sheriff’s deputy and is currently pastor of Shepherdsville Baptist Church in Gloucester.

His father, G. Nelson Carter, was the founding president of the Tri-County NAACP, and with his wife Miriam, sponsored the Irene Morgan bus desegregation case in 1942. The Carters also funded the only NAACP equal schools case, which resulted in the building of T.C. Walker School in Gloucester and the Ralph Bunche School in King George, Martin said.

Advance registration is required, with a tuition payment of $35. For more information or to register, contact Sharon Drotleff at the RCC Educational Foundation office at 877-722-3679, or at sdrotleff@rappahannock.edu.