Jennings Ordinary, Virginia

Jennings Ordinary
Unincorporated community
Jennings Ordinary, April, 2015
Jennings Ordinary Location within the state of Virginia Jennings Ordinary Jennings Ordinary (the United States)
Coordinates: 37°13′22″N 78°8′44″W
Country	United States
State	Virginia
County	Nottoway
Elevation	502 ft (153 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS ID	1493142

Jennings Ordinary is an unincorporated community in Nottoway County, Virginia, United States. It was also known as Jennings Store.

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 Stokely Carmichael, 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.