Also pardoned were a top Virginia lawmaker and advocates for immigrant rights, criminal justice reform and gun violence prevention.

President Joe Biden on Sunday posthumously pardoned Black nationalist Marcus Garvey , who influenced Malcolm X and was convicted of mail fraud in the 1920s.

An emotional General Assembly gathering to remember the 100 Black Virginians served in the Virginia General Assembly from the late 1870s to 1890 and in the 1867 constitutional convention.