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Schweitzer, Paul T. 

Schweitzer, Paul T. 

Creator Schweitzer, Paul T.
Description Norfolk businessman and member of the Norfolk School Board (1952-1960) and City Council (1960-1968) during the Massive Resistance crisis. Includes correspondence, legal documents, newspapers clippings, scrapbooks and photographs that primarily document his activities during Norfolk’s desegregation crisis.
Call number MG 16
Date from 1903
Date to 1976
Geographic school Norfolk, VA
Size Three Hollinger Documents Cases and One Hollinger Drop-Front Print Box
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions Open to researchers without restrictions. Questions on literary property rights should be directed to the Special Collections Librarian.
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/schweitzer.htm
Repository Old Dominion University, Special Collections and University Archives
Repository address Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist
Repository contact email libspecialcollections@odu.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 683-4483
DoveRegion region3
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    Norfolk (Va.) School Board

o    Norfolk (Va.) City Council

o    Schweitzer, Paul T., 1903-1976
Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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DOVE Digital Collection 

DOVE Digital Collection 

Creator Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE) Project
Description The DOVE Collection contains materials dated mainly from the early 1950s through the 1960s and 70s. Specific regions represented in the collection are the City of Norfolk, Prince Edward County, Southside Virginia, Charlottesville and the Eastern Shore of Virginia. During a series of tours conducted throughout the state in 2012 and 2013 entitled ‘School Desegregation: Learn, Preserve and Empower,’ nearly 100 oral histories were conducted to allow citizens to talk about their experiences with school desegregation. Photographs, documents, newspaper clippings and other items were also collected at this time and at other times during the DOVE project. Additional material will be added in the future.
Call number MG 104
Date from 1950
Date to 2013
Geographic school Virginia
Size about 200 digital objects – oral histories, transcripts, videos, documents
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://dc.lib.odu.edu/cdm/about/collection/dove
Repository Old Dominion University, Special Collections and University Archives
Repository address Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist
Repository contact email libspecialcollections@odu.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 683-4483
DoveRegion region3
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
Types Oral histories
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Howell, Henry E. Jr. 

Howell, Henry E. Jr. 

Creator Howell, Henry E. Jr.
Description Served in the General Assembly and as Lieutenant Governor (1971-1973). Unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Virginia three times (1969, 1973,1977). Bulk of the collection deals with his career in politics, first in Norfolk and, after 1968, on the statewide level. Documents Democratic Party affairs from 1948 through 1977. Also includes promotional audio and video clips created as part of Howell’s campaigns for the Virginia governorship in 1969, 1973 and 1977. Included are radio and television advertisements, speeches and scripted television broadcasts.
Call number MG 1
Date from 1920
Date to 1997
Geographic school Virginia
Size 199 Hollinger Document Cases; 1 Hollinger Drop-front Print Box; total of 135.25 linear feet
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions The collection is open to researchers with no restrictions. Information on literary property rights should be directed to the Special Collections Librarian.
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/howell_index.htm
Repository Old Dominion University, Special Collections and University Archives
Repository address Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist
Repository contact email libspecialcollections@odu.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 683-4483
DoveRegion region3
Subjects o    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Howell, Henry E. (Henry Evans), 1920-1997

o    Virginia–Politics and government

o    Duckworth, William Frederick

o    Virginia. General Assembly

o    Legislators–Virginia
Types o    Broadcast-radio

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Press releases
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Delta Sigma Lambda Sorority 

Delta Sigma Lambda Sorority 

Creator Edith Carmichael
Description In Scrapbook 1: 1960-1965, clippings and photographs documenting the Sorority’s donation of a car for Willie May Watson, who worked with African American children in the Prince Edward County schools during the school closing crisis. Also pictured is Dr. Ruth Harrell, chair of the Old Dominion College psychology department and faculty advisor to the sorority, who was the school psychologist for Prince Edward county schools.
Call number RG 37-4A1
Date from 1964
Date to 1998
Geographic school Prince Edward County, VA
Size 2 pages
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/dsl.htm
Repository Old Dominion University, Special Collections and University Archives
Repository address Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist
Repository contact email libspecialcollections@odu.edu
Repository contact phone (757) 683-4483
DoveRegion region3
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Public schools

o    School children

o    School closings

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Segregation in education

o    Delta Sigma Lambda Sorority

o    Old Dominion University
Types o    Clippings

o    Photographs
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WRVA Radio Collection 

WRVA Radio Collection 

Creator WRVA Radio
Description The Library of Virginia’s WRVA Radio Collection covers three-quarters of a century, from the station’s founding to the end of the twentieth century. It includes a wide array of materials related to the history of WRVA, including incorporation files, memos, meeting minutes, FCC license renewal applications, and newsletters; materials about its programs and listener responses to its programs; information on specific employees and announcers such as Alden Aaroe, Bertha Hewlett, Tim Timberlake, and others; and publications promoting WRVA and the Richmond area market to advertisers. The collection also includes photographs; sound recordings; and numerous other documents and memorabilia items related to the station. The series of sound recordings included in the WRVA collection includes 637 CDs reformatted with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These recordings document an astonishing variety of programs, personalities, and events related to the radio station and its development. Popular musical programs and performers, including the Old Dominion Barn Dance and the Corn Cob Pipe Club, figure prominently in this collection, as do the station’s live reports and commentary on news events of local, state, national, and international significance between the 1930s and 1990s. Numerous special anniversary programs broadcast by the station provide a rich body of information on the station and its history, and feature synopses of important news events covered by WRVA throughout its history.
Call number none
Date from 1925
Date to 2000
Geographic school Virginia
Size ca. 48 cubic feet and 637 compact discs
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=lva/vi00565.xml;query=;
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    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Virginia–Politics and government

o    Radio broadcasting–Virginia
Types o    Broadcast-radio

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Press releases
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Virginia Education Association histories of various school systems in the Commonwealth, 1963 

Virginia Education Association histories of various school systems in the commonwealth, 1963 

Creator Virginia Education Association
Description Histories, 1963, of various school systems in Virginia compiled for the commemoration of the centennial celebration of the Virginia Education Association. Histories include discussion of both public and private education, photographs, reminiscences, statistics, correspondence, and other materials chronicling education. Papers include histories of some of the local education associations and general histories of Bedford and Frederick Counties and Hampton. Collection also includes the centennial issue of the Virginia Journal of Education (June 1963).
Call number Accession Number 29975
Date from 1963
Date to 1963
Geographic school Virginia
Size 3 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/lva/vi04227.html
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    High school students

o    Middle school students

o    Private schools

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    Virginia. Department of Education

o    Public schools–Virginia

o    Private schools–Virginia
Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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WRVA Radio Collection

WRVA Radio Collection 

Creator WRVA Radio
Description The Library of Virginia’s WRVA Radio Collection covers three-quarters of a century, from the station’s founding to the end of the twentieth century. It includes a wide array of materials related to the history of WRVA, including incorporation files, memos, meeting minutes, FCC license renewal applications, and newsletters; materials about its programs and listener responses to its programs; information on specific employees and announcers such as Alden Aaroe, Bertha Hewlett, Tim Timberlake, and others; and publications promoting WRVA and the Richmond area market to advertisers. The collection also includes photographs; sound recordings; and numerous other documents and memorabilia items related to the station. The series of sound recordings included in the WRVA collection includes 637 CDs reformatted with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These recordings document an astonishing variety of programs, personalities, and events related to the radio station and its development. Popular musical programs and performers, including the Old Dominion Barn Dance and the Corn Cob Pipe Club, figure prominently in this collection, as do the station’s live reports and commentary on news events of local, state, national, and international significance between the 1930s and 1990s. Numerous special anniversary programs broadcast by the station provide a rich body of information on the station and its history, and feature synopses of important news events covered by WRVA throughout its history.
Call number none
Date from 1925
Date to 2000
Geographic school Virginia
Size ca. 48 cubic feet and 637 compact discs
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
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    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Virginia–Politics and government

o    Radio broadcasting–Virginia
Types o    Broadcast-radio

o    Memorabilia

o    Minutes

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Press releases
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Armistead Boothe collection, 1920-1983

Armistead Boothe collection, 1920-1983

Creator Boothe, Armistead Leon (1907-1990)
Description Armistead Lloyd Boothe (1907-1990) was a lawyer and state legislator from Alexandria, Virginia. Boothe attended Episcopal High School, the University of Virginia, and Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He and his wife, Elizabeth Peele Boothe, were married in 1934.

Boothe served as a Democratic Virginia state legislator from 1948-1963. He was a prominent member of a group of legislators known as the “Young Turks” who opposed the entrenched establishment politicians of Virginia government. As noted in a 1970 news release, “he became perhaps best known for his consistent political fight, from 1954 on, to keep the public schools of the State open” after Virginia threatened to eliminate the mandate for public schools in order to oppose the Supreme Court’s Brown vs. Board of Education decision requiring school integration.

Boothe also served as a trustee of Colonial Williamsburg. A lifelong Episcopalian, he left politics and the law in 1970 to serve as the Director of Development at Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria. Boothe died in 1990.

The collection documents the life and political career of Armistead L. Boothe from his school days in Alexandria, Virginia, in the early 1920s to his role as Director of Development at Virginia Theological Seminary in the 1970s and his retirement in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Included are certificates, a few photos, and a letter from Boothe’s time as a student at Episcopal High School and the University of Virginia, travel and bank documents from his time in England in the 1920s and 1930s, and newspaper articles, speeches and writings, press releases, campaign materials, and correspondence from his days as a lawyer, politician, and director of development at Virginia Theological Seminary. Of particular interest is a 1969 letter to the parents of Mary Jo Kopechne, who was killed in the accident at Chappaquiddick in Ted Kennedy’s car. Also included in the collection are Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia briefs dating from the 1940s to the 1960s, as well as correspondence, agendas, news articles, etc, from Boothe’s role as a trustee of Colonial Williamsburg.
Call number C0268
Date from 1920
Date to 1983
Geographic school Virginia (commonweath-wide)
Size
1.0 linear feet (2 boxes)
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions  —–
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL https://scrc.gmu.edu/finding_aids/boothe.html
Repository George Mason University Libraries
Repository address Special Collection Research Center, Fenwick Library MS 2FL, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030
Repository contact name Brittney Falter
Repository contact title Research Services Coordinator, Special Collection Research Center
Repository contact email speccoll@gmu.edu
Repository contact phone (703) 993-2220
DoveRegion Region 6
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 education

o    Virginia, Northern

o    Public Schools of the District of Columbia
Types manuscripts
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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.
Call number
Date from
Date to
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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Booker T. Washington School oral history

Booker T. Washington School oral history 

Creator Booker T. Washington National Monument. National Park Service
Description Monument staff conducted six oral history interviews in 2008 to explore the history of the Booker T. Washington School in Hardy, Virginia, a black school that now serves as the park headquarters.
Call number
Date from 2008
Date to
Geographic school Hardy, VA
Size photographs; 6 digital audio recordings (Windows Media Player files)
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.nps.gov/bowa/index.htm
Repository Booker T. Washington National Monument
Repository address 12130 Booker T. Washington Highway, Hardy, VA 24101
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Booker T. Washington National Monument. National Park Service
Repository contact email
Repository contact phone (540) 721-2094
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Education

o    Civil rights movements

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

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

o    Photographs

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts