Elizabeth City County (Va.) Schools correspondence
| Creator | Elizabeth City County (Va.) Public Schools |
| Description | Elizabeth City County (Va.) Schools Correspondence, 1918-1952, contains the general correspondence of Division Superintendents Robert M. Newton, Herbert M. Spain, and C. Aton Lindsay. It documents the administration of the Elizabeth City County, Hampton (City), and Phoebus (Town) school systems. The records also contain minutes of the Elizabeth City County Board of School Trustees, 1918-1921. The correspondence files include a petition from the Elizabeth City County Teachers?ó?.¼?.ó Association for equalization of teacher pay, 1940 Dec. 6; a letter, 1941 May 14, from attorney Oliver Hill regarding the petition, and a copy, with a few notes, of the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit), banning discriminatory pay scales for teachers. Elizabeth City County (Va.) Schools Division Superintendent Correspondence, 1924-1952, contains general correspondence with teachers, principals, parents, students, teacher organizations, parent-teacher organizations, school board members, state education officials, attorneys, and vendors. The letters pertain to renovation and construction of schools and strategies for increasing taxes to pay for school construction; recruitment of teachers and student-teachers, parents and teachers lobbying to increase pay for teachers and coaches, inquiries about charging tuition for the children of military personnel at Fort Eustis and Fort Langley, and legal requirements for educating the children of immigrants. The correspondence files also contain annual reports, budgets, teacher contracts, lists of teachers and their salaries, and scattered ephemera, such as programs from high school commencements, plays, and concerts. Elizabeth City County (Va.) Board of School Trustees minutes, 1918-1921, document efforts to expand school construction in the district to accommodate a rapidly growing population. The minutes include correspondence with architects, proposed budgets, annual reports, memos and reports on the estimated costs of construction of four new schools, and information on teacher salaries in Newport News and Elizabeth City County. |
| Call number | Barcode numbers 1048911-1048913, 1048915-1048916 |
| Date from | 1918 |
| Date to | 1952 |
| Geographic school | Elizabeth City County, VA; Hampton, VA; Phoebus, VA; Newport News, VA |
| Size | 5 boxes |
| Access restrictions yes/no | no |
| Access restrictions | |
| Part Of larger collection yes/no | no |
| Larger collection title | |
| URL | http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi04308.xml |
| Repository | Library of Virginia |
| Repository address | 800 East Broad Street, Richmond, VA 23219-8000 |
| Repository contact name | |
| Repository contact title | Archives Reference Services |
| Repository contact email | archdesk@lva.virginia.gov |
| Repository contact phone | (804) 692-3888 |
| DoveRegion | region5 |
| Subjects | o African Americans–Civil rights
o Public schools o Hill, Oliver W., 1907-2007 |
| Types | o Annual reports
o Correspondence o Financial records o Government papers o Minutes o Organizational Records o Petitions o Reports |