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Virginia Teacher’s Registers for African American schools in New Kent County 

Virginia Teacher’s Registers for African American schools in New Kent County 

Creator New Kent County (Va.) Schools. New Kent High School
Description The booklets were records of achievement and attendance and listed names of students; sex, age, grade, names of parents or guardians, their address and occupation, along with student grades and the teacher’s term report (listing days taught, enrollment, attendance, and other statistical information). Restricted, for 75 years, because of privacy concerns. For 1944-1945, New Kent Training School (5 vols.); for 1950-1951, Cooks Mills School (1 vol.), Cumberland School (1 vol.), Lanexa School (1 vol.), Plum Point School (1 vol.), George W. Watkins School (6 vols.), and 1 unmarked; for 1952-1953, Cumberland School (1 vol.) and George W. Watkins School (8 vols.); for 1953-1954, Cumberland School (1 vol.), Lanexa School (1 vol.), George W. Watkins School (6 vols.), and 1 unmarked; for 1954-1955, Cumberland School (1 vol.) and George W. Watkins School (5 vols.); for 1955-1956, Cumberland School (1 vol.) and George W. Watkins School (9 vols.); for 1956-1957, George W. Watkins School (8 vols.); for 1957-1958, Cumberland School (3 vols.), Mountcastle School (1 vol.), Tunstall School (1 vol.), and Quinton School (1 vol.) George W. Watkins School was involved in a landmark civil rights case, Green v. County School Board of New Kent County 391 U.S. 430 (1968).
Call number Accession 43459
Date from 1944
Date to 1961
Geographic school New Kent County, VA
Size 2 boxes
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Student information in these unprocessed materials may be RESTRICTED under the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Please contact Archives Research Services prior to visiting the Library of Virginia.
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL http://www.lva.virginia.gov/agencies/records/sched_local/GS-21.pdf
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    Public schools

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    United States. Supreme Court

o    Public schools — Virginia — New Kent County
Types o    Annual reports

o    Government papers

o    Reports
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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.
Call number
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
Larger collection title
URL
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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Arlington County Public Schools 

Arlington County Public Schools 

Creator Arlington County Virginia School System
Description Contains the incomplete and unofficial records of the Arlington County Virginia School System. Materials include information on School Board candidates, architectural reports and site studies for school buildings, school personnel handbooks, salary and retirement information from the 1950s, reports of citizen advisory councils and task forces on instructional issues, 1950s through the 1970s, and many school publications including newsletters and clippings about Arlington schools, chiefly the 1950s through the 1970s.
Call number Record Group 7
Date from 1946
Date to 1988
Geographic school Arlington County, VA
Size 21 linear ft.
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Arlington County Public Library
Repository address Virginia Room, 1015 N. Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 22201
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Arlington County Public Library. Virginia Room.
Repository contact email http://lib.arlingtonva.us/departments/Libraries/ref/AskVaRoom.htm
Repository contact phone (703) 228-5966
DoveRegion region6
Subjects o    Public schools

o    School children

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education
Types o    Clippings

o    Organizational Records

o    Reports