Warren County (Va.) Board of Supervisors Petitions and Letters For and Against Public School Integration
| Creator | Warren County (Va.). Board of Supervisors |
| Description | This collection consists of letters and petitions received by the Warren County Board of Supervisors from residents for and against public school integration. The letters, 24-27 February and March 1959, primarily request the Board of Supervisors to adopt a normal school budget for the 1959-60 school year and not close the public schools. A letter from J. R. Orgain, Jr., however, asks the Board of Supervisors to cut off funds for integrated schools. The petitions are signed by residents who want to maintain segregated schools and do not want any money appropriated to operate integrated schools. These petitions are either printed forms or cut out from the newspaper in which they appeared as paid advertisements. Also includes a newsletter, 24 February 1959, of the Warren County Committee for Public Schools clarifying why white students did not return to Warren County High School when the federal courts ordered the school re-opened and explaining that the remainder of the term would be substandard; and news clippings from the Warren Sentinel, 5 and 12 March 1959, regarding the petitions and an appeal from local clergy to keep the public schools open. |
| Call number | Accession 39750 |
| Date from | 1959 |
| Date to | 1959 |
| Geographic school | Warren County, VA |
| Size | 1 box |
| Access restrictions yes/no | yes |
| Access restrictions | Do not serve original newspaper clippings. |
| Part Of larger collection yes/no | no |
| Larger collection title | |
| URL | http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi00169.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 American students
o African Americans–Civil rights o African Americans–Segregation o High school students o Private schools o Public schools o School children o School closings o School integration o Segregation in education |
| Types | o Clippings
o Correspondence o Legal documents |