Edward H. Peeples, Jr., papers, n.d., 1915, 1920s-2005

Edward H. Peeples, Jr., papers, n.d., 1915, 1920s-2005

Creator Edward H. Peeples, Jr.
Description The papers of Dr. Edward H. Peeples, Jr., document his long career in education and public health, and in his activities as a promoter of social justice in a variety of human rights reforms in Virginia and other places across the South.
Call number Accession Number: M 342
Date from 1915, 1920
Date to 2005
Geographic school Prince Edward County, VA
Size 33 linear feet
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vcu-cab/vircu00124.xml.frame
Repository Virginia Commonwealth University Special Collections and Archives
Repository address James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives, 901 Park Avenue, P.O. Box 842033, Richmond, VA 23284-2033
Repository contact name Wesley Chenault
Repository contact title
Repository contact email libjbcsca@vcu.edu
Repository contact phone (804) 828-1108
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    Civil rights movements

o    Civil rights workers

o    College teachers

o    Poverty

o    Race discrimination

o    Segregation in education–Virginia–Prince Edward County

o    Race relations

o    White supremacy movements

Types o    Interviews

o    Lectures

o    Manuscripts

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Speeches

Edward H. Peeples, Jr. papers, 1946-1999 

Edward H. Peeples, Jr. papers, 1946-1999 

Creator Edward H. Peeples, Jr.
Description The collection contains three lengthy oral histories conducted by Dr. Peeples of J. Kenneth Morland.
Call number
Date from 1946
Date to 1999
Geographic school Prince Edward County, VA
Size includes photographs (circa 100)
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=941
Repository Virginia Commonwealth University Special Collections and Archives
Repository address James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives, 901 Park Avenue, P.O. Box 842033, Richmond, VA 23284-2033
Repository contact name Wesley Chenault
Repository contact title
Repository contact email libjbcsca@vcu.edu
Repository contact phone (804) 828-1108
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    African Americans–Education

o    African Americans–Social conditions

o    American Friends Service Committee

o    Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education–Trials, litigation, etc.

o    Civil rights movements–Southern States

o    Civil rights movements

o    Prince Edward County (Va.)

o    Prince William (Va.)

o    Discrimination in education

o    School integration

o    White supremacy movements

Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

George R. Talcott papers 

George R. Talcott papers 

Creator George R. Talcott
Description This collection consists of reports, studies and other government documents relating to Richmond, Virginia. Topics include public utilities, schools and integration, urbanization, and the Richmond annexation of Chesterfield and ensuing lawsuits. The bulk of the material covers the 1970s.
Call number M 241
Date from 1948
Date to 1981
Geographic school Richmond, VA; Chesterfield County, VA
Size 6 linear feet
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=vcu-cab/vircu00004.xml
Repository Virginia Commonwealth University Special Collections and Archives
Repository address James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives, 901 Park Avenue, P.O. Box 842033, Richmond, VA 23284-2033
Repository contact name Wesley Chenault
Repository contact title
Repository contact email libjbcsca@vcu.edu
Repository contact phone (804) 828-1108
DoveRegion region5
Subjects o    African American students

o    Busing for school integration

o    High school students

o    Middle school students

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    Public schools–Virginia–Richmond

o    Public schools–Virginia–Chesterfield County

Types o    Annual reports

o    Government papers

o    Legal documents

o    Proceedings

o    Reports

Wyatt, Landon Russell papers (1891-1971)

Wyatt, Landon Russell papers (1891-1971)

Creator Wyatt, Landon Russell (1891-1971)
Description State senator and business executive, of Danville, Va. Chiefly topical and election correspondence (primarily 1950-70), speeches, and printed material, relating to Virginia budget, Gray Commission on Massive Resistance, and the Virginia Tobacco Tax Commission. Includes some papers from Wyatt’s career as chairman of the board of trustees of Averett College, Danville, Va.. Correspondents include Watkins Moorman Abbitt, John Stewart Battle, Harry Flood Byrd, Harry Flood Byrd, Jr., Mills Edwin Godwin, Thomas Marshall Hahn, Albertis Sydney Harrison, Absolam Willis Robertson, William Belser Spong, William Munford Tuck, and George Corley Wallace.
Call number MS 72-1822
Date from 1935
Date to 1970
Geographic school Virginia
Size 2 ft. (1981 items)
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository UNLV Department of Special Collections
Repository address Box 457010, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV 89154-7010
Repository contact name University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Special Collections
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone (702) 895-2234
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Battle, John Stewart, 1890-1972

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

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

o    Public schools

o    School children

o    School closings

o    School integration

o    Virginia. General Assembly

o    Wyatt, Landon Russell, 1891-1971

o    Tuck, William M. (William Munford), 1896-1983

o    Byrd, Harry F. (Harry Flood), 1887-1966

o    Byrd, Harry F., Jr. (Harry Flood), 1914-2013

o    Hahn, T. Marshall (Thomas Marshall), 1926-

o    Robertson, A. Willis

o    Spong, William B. (William Belser), 1920-1997

Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents

Hutcheson, Joseph Collier papers (1906-1972)

Hutcheson, Joseph Collier papers (1906-1972)

Creator Hutcheson, Joseph Collier (1906-1972)
Description Virginia State legislator. Chiefly correspondence, lists, petitions, speeches, memos, and other political papers; together with personal correspondence, clippings, and photos. Includes material on election campaigns, political appointments, committee assignments, public school integration, General Assembly Special Session on the Revision of the Constitution (1969), and State Commission on Public Education. Correspondents include Watkins M. Abbitt, Garland Gray, and William M. Tuck, and Hutcheson’s father, Herbert Farrar Hutcheson, and brother, Charles Sterling Hutcheson.
Call number MS 81-364
Date from 1930
Date to 1972
Geographic school Virginia
Size 3 ft. (ca. 28,000 items)
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Repository address P.O. Box 400110, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
Repository contact name Nicole Bouch
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email nlb3d@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 243-1776
DoveRegion region7
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    Virginia. General Assembly

o    Hutcheson, Joseph Collier, 1906-1972

o    Abbitt, Watkins Moorman, 1908-1998

o    Gray, Garland

o    Tuck, William M. (William Munford), 1896-1983

o    Hutcheson, Herbert Farrar

o    Hutcheson, Charles Sterling

Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents

Southern Student Organizing Committee and Thomas N. Gardner papers

Southern Student Organizing Committee and Thomas N. Gardner papers

Creator University of Virginia
Description This collection contains Tom Gardner’s papers as staff member and chairman of the SSOC [Southern Student Organizing Committee].
Call number
Date from 1948
Date to 1994
Geographic school Charlottesville, VA
Size ca. 2,500 items (housed in 6 Hollinger boxes, 2.5 linear feet); correspondence; interviews; memoranda; reports; minutes; broadsides; printed materials; articles; speeches; newsclippings.
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/viu01448.xml.frame
Repository University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Repository address P.O. Box 400110, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
Repository contact name Nicole Bouch
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email nlb3d@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 243-1776
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    Civil rights movements

o    Civil rights movements–Southern States

o    College students

o    Labor movement

o    Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)

o    School integration–Virginia–Charlottesville

o    Southern Student Organizing Committee (Nashville, Tenn.)

o    University of Virginia

o    Vietnam War, 1961-1975

o    Protest movements

o    Student movements

Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts

Sarah Patton Boyle papers 

Sarah Patton Boyle papers 

Creator Boyle, Sarah Patton
Description The collection contains correspondence and material concerning Sarah Patton Boyle’s “The Desegregated Heart” and her “For Human Beings Only”; speeches; editorials; book reviews; and material regarding the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Virginia Council on Human Relations, The Congress of Racial Equality, and the Southern Christian leadership Conference. There are also polls, including the “Parker Poll” on desegregation at the University of Virginia, miscellaneous clippings and articles, a scrapbook, and a cross which was burned on Mrs. Boyle’s lawn.
Call number Accession Number 8003-a,-b
Date from 1949
Date to 1970
Geographic school Charlottesville, Prince Edward County, VA, VA
Size ca. 12,000 items
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/viu02095.xml.frame
Repository University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Repository address P.O. Box 400110, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
Repository contact name Nicole Bouch
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email nlb3d@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 243-1776
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Segregation in higher education

o    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

o    Virginia Council on Human Relations

o    Congress of Racial Equality

o    Southern Christian leadership Conference

o    University of Virginia

o    Women civil rights workers

o    Boyle, Sarah-Patton, 1906-

Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents

Virginia Council on Human Relations. Charlottesville-Albemarle Chapter

Virginia Council on Human Relations. Charlottesville-Albemarle Chapter

Creator Virginia Council on Human Relations. Charlottesville-Albemarle Chapter
Description Correspondence, minutes, speeches, bylaws, financial records, membership lists, surveys, newsletters, and clippings, relating chiefly to desegregation of public schools, fair housing, and equal employment opportunity, and also to Homeward Bound for returning Vietnam veterans, voter registration, school curricula reform, and prison reform. Includes correspondence, minutes, bylaws, financial statements, press releases, and publications of the State board of directors and executive committee; and material from Virginia Equal Employment Opportunity Committee, Southern Regional Council, Citizens for Superior Albemarle Schools, PTA, NAACP, Anti-Defamation League, and President’s Committee on Equal Employment. Correspondents include Harry F. Byrd, Sr., Lyndon B. Johnson, Thurgood Marshall, A. Willis Robertson, and Howard W. Smith.
Call number MS 81-386
Date from 1955
Date to 1970
Geographic school Charlottesville, Albemarle County
Size 3200 items
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Repository address P.O. Box 400110, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
Repository contact name Nicole Bouch
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email nlb3d@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 243-1776
DoveRegion region7
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    Virginia Equal Employment Opportunity Committee

o    Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993

o    Parents’ and teachers’ associations

o    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

o    B’nai B’rith. Anti-defamation League

o    Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973

Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents

Administrative files of the Consultative Resource Center 11976, 1980-1982

Administrative files of the Consultative Resource Center 11976, 1980-1982

Creator Curry School of Education. Consultative Resource Center
Description Files concern the Consultative Resource Center and its proposed Desegregation Assistance Center and include budget, report from the Office of Sponsored Programs, leasing arrangements, and application to the U. S. Office of Education for a section 403 funding award. The Desegregation Assistance Center was “to provide technical assistance to local educational agencies… which will enable them to develop effective methods, techniques, strategies and practices for coping with special educational problems occasioned by the implementation of school desegregation.”
Call number
Date from 1980
Date to 1982
Geographic school Charlottesville, VA
Size circa 10 items
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Repository address P.O. Box 400110, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
Repository contact name Nicole Bouch
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email nlb3d@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 243-1776
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American students

o    Busing for school integration

o    Public schools

o    School children

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    Curry School of Education

o    University of Virginia

o    United States. Office of Education

Types o    Financial records

o    Government papers

o    Organizational Records

o    Reports

Thomas Johnson Michie papers (1896-1973)

Thomas Johnson Michie papers (1896-1973)

Creator Michie, Thomas Johnson (1896-1973)
Description Lawyer, judge, businessman, and mayor of Charlottesville, Va. Correspondence, and other business, military, personal, and political papers, his appointment as district judge of the Western District of Virginia, and Virginia Straight Democratic Committee (1960). Includes correspondence relating to Charlottesville City Council correspondence relating to civic improvement, annexation and zoning, school desegregation, and public housing.
Call number MS 77-1236
Date from 1917
Date to 1967
Geographic school Charlottesville, VA
Size ca. 6000 items
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository University of Virginia Library, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
Repository address P.O. Box 400110, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904-4110
Repository contact name Nicole Bouch
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email nlb3d@virginia.edu
Repository contact phone (434) 243-1776
DoveRegion region7
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 integration

o    Charlottesville (Va.) City Council

o    District courts–Virginia

o    Public schools–Virginia–Charlottesville

o    Public schools–Virginia–Albemarle County

o    Michie, Thomas Johnson, 1896-1973

Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents