Marker to honor site of Virginia hotel where Louis Armstrong, Thurgood Marshall stayed

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Marker to honor site of Virginia hotel where Louis Armstrong, Thurgood Marshall stayed

When the 10-room inn opened in 1947, Black travelers were largely consigned to small guesthouses. The Carver Inn was “the only Negro hotel in Charlottesville.”