Resources for Research on the Desegregation of Virginia Schools

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Generations of Women Leaders at Virginia Tech

Generations of Women Leaders at Virginia Tech

Creator Clara B. Cox, writer and editor
Description Description of the arrival, experiences, influence, growth, and achievements of women students and faculty at Virginia Tech between 1921-1996. Includes black women. Also includes description of Tech’s relationship to Radford University during the period that Radford was the women’s division of VPI. Publication was a product of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 75th Anniversary Steering Committee.
Call number LD 5655.A4 1996
Date from 1996
Date to 1996
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 1 book
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Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
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Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School integration

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Women college students

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

o    Radford University
Types Narrative
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The Oral History of the Principalship

The Oral History of the Principalship

Creator Patrick W. Carlton
Description The Oral History of the Public School Principalship is an ongoing project designed to interview retired elementary, middle, and high school principals for their views, reminiscences, and accumulated wisdom. Most of the interviewees are from the Southeast (mainly Virginia, North Carolina, Maryland, District of Columbia, and West Virginia). The Project Director is Dr. Patrick W. Carlton, formerly an associate professor at VPI&SU but currently at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The UNLV website permits searching by race, state, gender, name, level, and retirement decade, and may be permit easier searching for issues surrounding desegregation in Virginia.
Call number MS 1989-040
Date from 1987
Date to 1995
Geographic school primarily southeastern United States
Size 8 cu. ft.
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URL http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/faculty_archives/principalship/interviews.html
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Tamara Kennelly
Repository contact title University Archivist
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
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Subjects o    High school students

o    Middle school students

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    African American school principals
Types Oral History
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William E. Lavery records

William E. Lavery records

Creator William E. Lavery
Description This collection contains correspondence and other official records of Lavery during his year as Executive Vice-President before becoming President of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Collection includes materials concerning budget matters, Board of Visitors, Computing Center, Computer Science, Community Colleges, each of the Colleges, Building Committee, Institutional Research, Task Force for Innovative Approaches to Instruction, University Council and Commissions, V.P.I. Industry Center, and Virginia Public Telecommunications Council. Box 3, folder 50 contains VPI’s 1974 affirmative action plan.
Call number RG 4/3
Date from 1973
Date to 1974
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 17 cubic feet
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URL http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/guide/rg04.htm
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
DoveRegion Region 1
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

o    Affirmative action programs–Virginia–Blacksburg

o    Lavery, William Edward
Types o    Annual reports

o    Correspondence

o    Financial records

o    Minutes

o    Proceedings

o    Reports
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Black Alumni Directory 

Black Alumni Directory 

Creator Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office
Description This 4th edition provides a breakdown by name (listed alphabetically), by class year, and by state. It is included in a folder titled ‘EO/AA Advisory Committee 1986 in the papers of President William E. Lavery.
Call number RG 2/12, Box 18, Folder 23
Date from 1958
Date to 1985
Geographic school Virginia, other states, and Puerto Rico
Size 1 brochure
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Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Tamara Kennelly
Repository contact title University Archivist
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
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Subjects o    African American students

o    School integration
Types Pamphlets
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The Civil Rights Cases 

The Civil Rights Cases 

Creator Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government
Description The Virginia Commission on Constitutional Government was created in 1956 by the General Assembly. Its “function is to engage in educational activities intended to promote the reestablishment of a sound State-Federal relationship, and generally to encourage a strict construction of the Constitution.” This pamphlet argues that the 1963 Civil Rights bill that President Kennedy sent to Congress is unconstitutional.
Call number Civil Rights no. 3
Date from 1883
Date to 1963
Geographic school United States
Size 1 pamphlet
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Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
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Subjects o    United States. Supreme Court
Types Pamphlets
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Black Life at Virginia Tech

Black Life at Virginia Tech

Creator Office of Admissions
Description Black Life at Virginia Tech was issued by the Office of Admissions in 1982, in order to encourage black students to attend Virginia Tech. 26 pages in length, the brochure describes black student organizations, activities, and includes numerous photos of individual blacks engaging campus life. The brochure also describes academic offerings, athletic and social opportunities, and attractions found in the Blacksburg area. A letter from President Lavery congratulating Calvin Jamison and Glenn Valentine on the issuance of the brochure is included.
Call number RG 2/12, Box 12, Folder 15
Date from 1982
Date to 1982
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 1 folder
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Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Tamara Kennelly
Repository contact title University Archivist
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
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Subjects o    African American students
Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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Records of William James McKeefery, Vice President, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Records of William James McKeefery, Vice President, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Creator William James McKeefery
Description In 1968 the post of Executive Vice President was established. William James McKeefery was the second Executive Vice President, succeeding Warren Brandt. This collection contains the correspondence and other official files of McKeefery during his tenure as Executive Vice-President. The bulk of the collection relates to other university concerns but files related to desegregation include a 1972 report titled “A Study of the Black Student Enrollment at the University (box 20, folder 798); a 1970 list of affirmative action recommendations that the university should implement or consider (box 19, folder 787), and the university’s response to an Office of Civil Rights compliance review in 1973 (box 23, folder 966).
Call number RG 4/2
Date from 1969
Date to 1973
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 26 cu. ft.
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URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/viblbv00637.frame
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
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Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    Segregation in higher education
Types o    Correspondence

o    Organizational Records
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Martha Singo collection

Martha Singo collection

Creator Martha Singo
Description Mounted newspaper clipping from the Montgomery News Messenger, dated February 16, 1956. Article notes that there are four black students at VPI with the first student arriving in 1953. This early and quiet integration is contrasted with UVA’s later acceptance of its first black student and the violence accompanying integration in other southern states. Article also contrasts VPI’s failure to allow Negro students to live or eat on campus with UVA’s more open policies, and Virginia’s refusal at that time to allow Negroes to take courses in predominately white universities that were available in predominantly African-American universities.
Call number M829 #6
Date from 20501
Date to 1956
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 1 newsclipping
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Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School integration

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

o    University of Virginia
Types Clippings
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School of Education/Record Group 1927-1961

School of Education/Record Group 1927-1961

Creator School of Education, Virginia State University
Description The Virginia Normal and Collegiate Institute was charted on March 6, 1882. With the following mandate to provide equality for the higher education of the colored youth and to furnish competent teachers for the colored schools of the state. with this charter the first state supported school in Virginia for teachers was established. During the first twenty-three years, 1883-1906, the Normal Department offered a single three-year curriculum consisting partly of elementary and high school subjects including music, drawing, sewing, cooking, physical “culture” and partly of education courses: the science and art of teaching, moral philosophy, psychology and “general reviews”. The movement toward specialization began in 1909, when students were permitted to select teaching, domestic science or art, agriculture, mechanical drawing, or business. Graduation from high school was first required for entrance to teacher-training courses in 1915. When the four-year college curriculum was reinstated by the state in 1923, the Bachelor of Science degree in education was the first to be accredited as a “Class a teachers college. In 1925, the college was offered its first differentiated curricula for the separate training of high school and supervisors, and teachers of public school music. A major in physical education followed in 1926; the department of secondary education emerged in 1930 offering a curriculum for secondary school principals and teachers; and the department of art was offered in 1933. With the introduction of liberal arts in 1930, the department of education became the Division of Education, a separate administrative unit of the College offering the four curricula organized by the departments of elementary education, secondary education, music and physical education. With the introduction of liberal arts in 1930, the department of education became the Division of Education, a separate administrative unit of the College. The division of education became The School of Education in the 1960’s. In 1995 The School of Education was emerged with The School of Humanities and Social Science therefore becoming the School of Liberal Arts and Education.
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Date from 1927
Date to 1965
Geographic school Petersburg, VA
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URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vsu/vipets00055.xml;query=;brand=default
Repository Virginia State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Repository address Johnston Memorial Library, 1 Hayden Drive, Petersburg, VA 23806
Repository contact name Lucious Edwards
Repository contact title University Archivist
Repository contact email ledwards@vsu.edu
Repository contact phone (804) 524-5749
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Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia State University
Types o    Annual reports

o    Correspondence

o    Minutes

o    Proceedings

o    Reports
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Luther Porter Jackson Family papers 

Luther Porter Jackson Family Papers 

Creator Luther Porter Jackson Family
Description The Luther Porter Jackson is one of the most valuable manuscript groups from a historical point of view in the nation, for this former professor of history at Virginia State University lived and worked during an era when the concept of black inferiority was the accepted rule. In addition, this was the time of “Jim Crowism.” Segregation was not “de facto,” it was legal and challenged by few people, black and white. During the major time span of these papers, 1920-1950, a number of political and civil rights organizations developed into potent forces and others were born: the NAACP, the Negro Organizational Society, the Southern Regional Council, and the Southern School for Workers. This manuscript group is rich in correspondence with most of the leaders of these movements. Some of the correspondence includes Walter White, Lorenzo C. White, P. Bernard Young, Gordon Hancock and others. Correspondence with Virginia based political and civil rights groups is strong and gives a good picture of the tempo of the era in the State: the Virginia Voters League, the Committee for Virginia, the Petersburg Negro Business League. In addition to correspondence with major political and civil rights organizations, Jackson maintained as interesting relationship with others across the U.S. The business or office correspondence of Luther P. Jackson from 1920-1950 include correspondence with John Hope Franklin, W.E.B. DuBois, Hugh Smythe, Helen Edmonds, P. Bernard Young, E. Franklin Frazier, Charles S. Johnson, Rayford Logan, Alrutheus Ambush Taylor, Lorenzo J. Green and others. The collection also consists of ledgers, pamphlets, financial and legal documents, photographs, speeches, newspaper articles, cards, telegrams, notebooks, artifacts and Jackson’s research materials, as well as correspondence and records in regard to the Virginia Teachers Association and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
Call number 1952-l
Date from 1772
Date to 1960
Geographic school Petersburg, VA, Virginia
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URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vsu/vipets00009.xml
Repository Virginia State University Library, Special Collections and Archives
Repository address Johnston Memorial Library, 1 Hayden Drive, Petersburg, VA 23806
Repository contact name Lucious Edwards
Repository contact title University Archivist
Repository contact email ledwards@vsu.edu
Repository contact phone (804) 524-5749
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    High school students

o    Middle school students

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    Segregation in education

o    Virginia State University

o    Virginia Teachers Association

o    Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, inc.

o    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

o    Virginia Voters League
Types o    Annual reports

o    Correspondence

o    Diaries

o    Financial records

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Proceedings

o    Reports