Resources for Research on the Desegregation of Virginia Schools

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Minutes of Meetings of the Emory and Henry College Board of Trustees

Minutes of Meetings of the Emory and Henry College Board of Trustees

Creator Emory and Henry Board of Trustees
Description Minute books of the Emory and Henry Board of Trustees for the period 1945 to 1965 contain entries reflecting the steps considered, rejected, and taken in the desegregation process for the college. The minute books for in the custody of the archives are open to the public.
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Date from 1837
Date to 2011
Geographic school Emory, VA
Size 6 volumes
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Minutes for the last 75 years are restricted. Contact the archivist for instructions on how to request permission for access from the Board of Trustees.
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Emory and Henry College, Archives and Special Collections
Repository address P.O. Box 947 Emory, VA 24327
Repository contact name Robert J. Vejnar, II
Repository contact title Archivist
Repository contact email rvejnar@ehc.edu
Repository contact phone (276) 944-6668
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    Segregation in higher education
Types Manuscripts
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Emory and Henry Alumni Records

Emory and Henry Alumni Records

Creator Alumni Office
Description Records were used by Scott David Arnold in the preparation of his Master’s thesis (The Integration of Emory and Henry College) for the University of Richmond, 1996. Mr. Arnold was granted permission by the Alumni Office to review the records, and permission will be needed for any future access by researchers.-.
Call number n/a
Date from
Date to
Geographic school Emory, VA
Size unknown
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Material in the possession of the Alumni Office. Contact Emory and Henry archivist for instructions regarding access.
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Emory and Henry College, Archives and Special Collections
Repository address P.O. Box 947 Emory, VA 24327
Repository contact name Robert J. Vejnar, II
Repository contact title Archivist
Repository contact email rvejnar@ehc.edu
Repository contact phone (276) 944-6668
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    Segregation in higher education
Types o    Organizational Records

o    Pamphlets
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Papers of President Earl Hunt, Jr.

Papers of President Earl Hunt, Jr.

Creator Earl Hunt, Jr.
Description President Earl Hunt encouraged and oversaw the integration of Emory and Henry College. His papers while president reflect these efforts. The collection is unprocessed and requires permission from the archivist to access.
Call number
Date from 1956
Date to 1964
Geographic school Emory, VA
Size 9 l.f.. (22 boxes)
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Collection is unprocessed. Permission of the archivist is required for access.
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Emory and Henry College, Archives and Special Collections
Repository address P.O. Box 947 Emory, VA 24327
Repository contact name Robert J. Vejnar, II
Repository contact title Archivist
Repository contact email rvejnar@ehc.edu
Repository contact phone (276) 944-6668
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    Segregation in higher education
Types o    Correspondence

o    Organizational Records
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Scott David Arnold Thesis Research Collection

Scott David Arnold Thesis Research Collection 

Creator Scott David Arnold
Description Collection consists of research material gathered or created by Mr. Arnold in pursuit of his Master’s thesis: The Integration of Emory and Henry College. Materials include questionnaires; correspondence; oral interviews; legal documents; college catalogs; and books and readings related to segregation, civil rights, and the southern integration process.
Call number Accession # 2005-03
Date from 2005
Date to 2005
Geographic school Emory, VA
Size 1 document box
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Emory and Henry College, Archives and Special Collections
Repository address P.O. Box 947 Emory, VA 24327
Repository contact name Robert J. Vejnar, II
Repository contact title Archivist
Repository contact email rvejnar@ehc.edu
Repository contact phone (276) 944-6668
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    Segregation in higher education
Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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Benjamin Muse Papers 

Benjamin Muse Papers 

Creator Benjamin Muse
Description Papers of Benjamin Muse, politician, journalist, experimental farmer, and civil rights activist. In 1959 Muse was given a post on the Southern Regional Council (formerly the Committee on Interracial Cooperation) and was director of their leadership project from 1959-1964. Included in the collection are fifteen speeches on the race question delivered in various places in the South. Also are drafts and notes on three of his books dealing with race relations: Virginia’s Massive Resistance, Ten Years of Prelude, and The American Negro Revolution. Of particular interest is the “Memoranda,” reports issued to the SRC on his conversations with Southern leaders and observations on race relations made during the five years he spent traveling through the South, when integration and the Civil Rights Movement were having their biggest impact. While predominantly conversations with white men, these reports provided detailed accounts of school desegregation, lunch counter sit-ins, and student activism throughout the south. As such they provide context for the lives of southern African-American women in the early 1960s.
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Date from 1919
Date to 1973
Geographic school Reston, VA
Size 747 Items
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
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Repository Duke Special Collection Library, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture
Repository address David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Box 90185, Duke University Durham, NC 27708-0185
Repository contact name Kelly Wooten
Repository contact title
Repository contact email http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/ask/index.html
Repository contact phone (919) 660-5967
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School closings

o    School integration

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Segregation in education

o    Muse, Benjamin

o    Southern Regional Council
Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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Danville (VA) civil rights movement collection

Danville (VA) civil rights movement collection 

Creator Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History
Description This collection includes oral Histories corresponding with the Danville Civil Rights Movement.
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Date from 1960
Date to 1964
Geographic school Danville, VA
Size
Access restrictions yes/no
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Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.danvillemuseum.org/exhibitions/2012-exhibits.html
Repository Danville Museum of Fine Arts & History
Repository address 975 Main Street, Danville, VA 24541
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Danville Museum of Fine Arts and History
Repository contact email cara@danvillemuseum.org
Repository contact phone (434) 793-5644
DoveRegion region2
Subjects o    African American political activists

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights demonstrations

o    Civil rights movements

o    Race relations
Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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Williamsburg documentary project

  Williamsburg documentary project 

Creator Special Collections Research Center
Description The Williamsburg Documentary Project collects materials on a wide variety of topics, but a few particularly rich clusters of materials have accrued around the following topics: African American life, with particular attention to desegregation.
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Date from
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Geographic school Williamsburg, VA
Size approximately 400 oral histories
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL https://digitalarchive.wm.edu/handle/10288/453
Repository College of William and Mary, Special Collections Research Center
Repository address Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William & Mary, PO Box 8794, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794
Repository contact name
Repository contact title College of William and Mary. Special Collections Research Center
Repository contact email spcoll@wm.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 221-3090
DoveRegion region4
Subjects o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia

o    College of William and Mary

o    School integration

o    Williamsburg (Va.)
Types o    Interviews

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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Inventory of the Ted Dalton Papers

Inventory of the Ted Dalton Papers

Creator Theodore Roosevelt Dalton
Description Papers, 1933-1978, of Ted Dalton, Virginia state senator, 1944-1959; Republican candidate for governor of Virginia in 1953 and 1957; and U.S. District judge for the Western District of Virginia. Includes correspondence, speeches, news clippings, photographs, recordings, reels of film and legal opinions. Subjects covered include Republican Party politics, the Virginia General Assembly, highways, compulsory automobile insurance, segregation, the Gray Commission Report (Commission on Public Education), the College of William and Mary, and Dalton’s appointment as a federal judge. Prominent correspondents include J. Lindsay Almond, Howard Baker, Ezra T. Benson, Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Harry F. Byrd, Jr., John N. Dalton, Colgate W. Darden, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Gerald R. Ford, Mills E. Godwin, Albertis S. Harrison, A. Linwood Holton, J. Edgar Hoover, A. E. Dick Howard, Richard Nixon, Davis Y. Paschall, Richard H. Poff, Lewis F. Powell, Nelson A. Rockefeller, Thomas B. Stanley, A. E. S. Stephens, William M. Tuck, and Edward E. Willey.
Call number Mss. 81 D17
Date from 1933
Date to 1978
Geographic school Virginia
Size 16 boxes
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wm/viw00037.frame
Repository College of William and Mary, Special Collections Research Center
Repository address Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William & Mary, PO Box 8794, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8794
Repository contact name
Repository contact title College of William and Mary. Special Collections Research Center
Repository contact email spcoll@wm.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 221-3090
DoveRegion region4
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African American–Segregation

o    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Godwin, Mills E. (Mills Edwin), 1914-1999

o    Harrison, Albertis S. (Albertis Sydney), 1907-1995

o    High school students

o    District courts–Virginia

o    Holton, A. Linwood (Abner Linwood), 1923-
Types o    Broadcast-radio

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Press releases
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Chesapeake School Board Minutes

Chesapeake School Board Minutes 

Creator City of Chesapeake
Description Contains minutes and organizational records in regard to the Norfolk County and later City of Chesapeake public schools.
Call number none
Date from pre-Civil War
Date to
Geographic school Norfolk County, Chesapeake
Size unknown
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Researchers must apply for access
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.cpschools.com/school_board/minutes.php
Repository City of Chesapeake School Board
Repository address School Administration Building, 312 Cedar Road, Chesapeake, VA 23322
Repository contact name
Repository contact title
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone
DoveRegion region3
Subjects o    Public schools

o    School children

o    School integration
Types o    Government papers

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

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 [Portsmouth, Virginia, civil rights oral history project]

 [Portsmouth, Virginia, civil rights oral history project] 

Creator Cinebar Productions, Inc.
Description This project consists of videotaped interviews of people prominent in the Portsmouth, Virginia, civil rights movement. School desegregation, civil rights demonstrations, and other matters were discussed. James W. Holley, Portsmouth’s first black mayor, was interviewed.
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Date from 2007
Date to
Geographic school Portsmouth, VA
Size approximately 8 videorecordings
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.cinebarproductions.com/index.php
Repository Cinebar Productions, Inc.
Repository address 763 J. Clyde Morris Blvd., Suite 1-C, Newport News, VA 23601
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Cinebar Productions, Inc.
Repository contact email http://www.cinebarproductions.com/contact/
Repository contact phone (757) 873-3232
DoveRegion region3
Subjects o    African American politicians

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Civil rights demonstrations

o    Civil rights movements

o    Civil rights workers

o    Portsmouth (Va.)

o    School integration
Types o    Interviews

o    Video recordings