USDC, Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, Civil Action Case #4264- Velda Brown, et al vs. the County School Board of Gloucester County, Virginia, et al 

USDC, Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, Civil Action Case #4264- Velda Brown, et al vs. the County School Board of Gloucester County, Virginia, et al 

Creator USDC, Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division
Description In March 1965, a class action suit was filed on behalf of all black students in Gloucester County for the County’s segregated educational system. By July of that same year, the School Board had submitted to the Court a concrete plan for school desegregation, which had already been passed by their body. It was agreed upon in a 1968 supplemental plan that all 7th-9th grade students would attend a single school regardless of race or residence, 10th-12th graders attend a second school regardless of race or residence, and 1st-6th graders, regardless of race, but depending on the designated zone that they reside in, placed in particular schools; these zones had previously been agreed upon based off of a Virginia Department of Highways map dated January 1, 1965 (marked exhibit A).
Call number Civil Action Case #4264
Date from 1965
Date to 1984
Geographic school Gloucester County, VA
Size unknown
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Repository NARA Mid-Atlantic Region
Repository address 14700 Townsend Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154-1096
Repository contact name David Weber
Repository contact title Director, Records Management Program
Repository contact email philadelphia.reference@nara.gov
Repository contact phone (215) 305-2000
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Public schools

o    School children

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents

o    Pamphlets

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