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Civil Suits 1957

Civil Suits 1957

Creator Hoffman, Walter E.
Description Includes 1)Decrees, decisions and memoranda from Beckett, Jerome A. Atkins et al v. The School Board of the City of Newport News. 2)Pupil Placement Board orders for Hampton 3)Speech at Admiralty Day luncheon re: desegregation of Norfolk Public Schools.
Call number 2004M:001
Date from 1957
Date to 1957
Geographic school Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton
Size 3 folders
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/wl-law/vilxwl00014.document
Repository Washington and Lee University School of Law
Repository address Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Archives, Law Library, Washington & Lee University, Lexington, VA 24450-0303
Repository contact name John N. Jacob
Repository contact title Archivist
Repository contact email powell@wlu.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 458-8969
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Public schools

o    School children

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    Public schools — Virginia — Newport News

o    Public schools — Virginia — Hampton

o    Hoffman, Walter E. (Walter Edward), 1907-1996
Types o    Government papers

o    Legal documents

o    Speeches
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Office of Academic Affairs records (Virginia Tech)

Office of Academic Affairs records (Virginia Tech)

Creator Leslie F. Malpass; Alfred H. Krebs
Description This collection consists primarily of records from the Office of Academic Affairs at Virginia Tech. The bulk is from Leslie Malpass’ tenure as Vice-President for Academic Affairs (1968-1974) but there are also materials from others, in particular Alfred H. Krebs who served as director of Summer School and as Assistant Vice President of Academic Affairs under Malpass. The collection covers a wide range of topics related to the academic programs offered or considered by Virginia Tech, including desegregation issues or activities. Of particular interest are folders containing discussions, drafts, or correspondence related to Tech’s repeated attempts to meet Federal requirements and gain approval for affirmative action/equal opportunity programs as mandated by the Office of Civil Rights. Tech’s efforts were part of a larger “Virginia Plan” titled The Plan for Equal Opportunity in Virginia’s Institution’s of Higher Education(see box/folders 37-23, 37-24, 40-2, 44-8, 44-9, 44-20, 45-17, 51-11 and 60-28). There is also material reflecting activities and concerns related to increasing black faculty, staff, and enriching the black student experience at Tech (see box/folders 9-4, 10-33, 15-2, 15-3, 16-14, 18-1, 18-4, 18-6, 18-7, 34-26 and 44-19. A program for disadvantaged southwest youth called Upward Bound and its corollary, Talent Search, operated at Virginia Tech for several years and the collection includes reports and correspondence related to this effort to improve the academic prospects of low socio-economic youths of which blacks appear to have been up to 50% of the program. Particularly revealing materials regarding Upward Bound can be found in box/folders 40-14/15 and 48-13. Information about concerns or activities related to blacks in higher education but not specifically at Virginia Tech can be found ins box/folders 16-15, 25-22, and 25-31/32.
Call number RG 5/1/2
Date from 1961
Date to 1977
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 84 cu. ft. 60 boxes
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL
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
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    High school students

o    Race relations

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia. Department of Education
Types o    Reports

o    Speeches
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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
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Southern Regional Council records

Southern Regional Council Records

Creator Southern Regional Council
Description The Southern Regional Council was formed as the Commission on Interracial Cooperation in 1919, with the goals of improving relations between blacks and whites and achieving an unsegregated society. In 1944, the Commission was succeeded by the Southern Regional Council, a non-profit and non-denominational organization which was founded to continue to strive for racial equality and harmony in the South. The Southern Regional Council is organized into State Divisions and local groups, with its main headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. A basic function of the Southern Regional Council is to provide factual information on race relations and related matters to individuals and public, private, and official agencies. To this end, a library and research facility are maintained, original studies are undertaken and published, and special projects and services are supported. In addition, such Southern Regional Council publications as New South help to advance the objectives of the organization. This collection consists of annual reports of the executive director, brochures, memoranda, news releases, published and mimeographed reports, research projects, special reports, speeches, and studies. Three items are of particular interest: “A Report on School Desegregation for 1960-1961, 1960″, ” Sanctuaries for Tradition: Virginia’s New Private Schools by Mary Ellen Goodman, 1961″ and ” School Desegregation: Old Problems Under a New Law, 1965″
Call number SRC
Date from 1944
Date to 1966
Geographic school Virginia
Size 1 linear ft.
Access restrictions yes/no n
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no N
Larger collection title
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Repository University of Illinois at Chicago
Repository address 801 S. Morgan Street, Room 3-330 Chicago IL
Repository contact name Sonia Yaco
Repository contact title Asst. Professor & Special Collections Librarian
Repository contact email http://library.uic.edu/home/services/ask-a-librarian
Repository contact phone (312) 996-2742
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects Southern Regional Council
Types o    Reports

o    Speeches

o    Brochures
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Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament papers

Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament papers

Creator Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
Description Collection documents the missions and missionary work of Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament, formally known as Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored People. Of note are documents related to two African American high schools operated by the order. St. Francis de Sales at Mt. Pleasant, a high school for young black women opened in 1893 and St. Emma Military Academy, in Belmead, a school for young black men, opened in 1895. The schools closed in 1970, largely because of the desegregation of public schools in Virginia. The collection also includes the papers of the Francis A. Drexel Family 1858-1945; the writings of St. Katherine Drexel; photographs and glass lantern slides of both schools and Saint Katherine. Saint Katharine Drexel papers include documentation about the only African American Roman Catholic college in the country, Xavier University of Louisiana, which she founded.
Call number
Date from 1858
Date to current
Geographic school Powhatan County
Size
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions Y
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament
Repository address St. Catherine Building, 1663 Bristol Pike, Bensaelm, PA 19020
Repository contact name Stephanie Morris
Repository contact title Director, Archives
Repository contact email sbsarchives@aol.com
Repository contact phone (215) 244-9900 ext. 352
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    Private schools
Types o    Diaries

o    Financial records

o    Oral History

o    Organizational Records

o    Photographs

o    Speeches
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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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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
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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