Tag: Albemarle County

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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
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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
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USDC, Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville Division, Civil Action Case #102- Karol Williams, et al vs. the School Board of the City of Charlottesville, the County School Board of Albemarle County, et al

USDC, Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville Division, Civil Action Case #102- Karol Williams, et al vs. the School Board of the City of Charlottesville, the County School Board of Albemarle County, et als 

Creator USDC, Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville Division
Description In 1950, the City of Charlottesville used public funds to purchase land in which to construct what became Burley High school. Burley had a wholly African-American student body and faculty, up to and including the principle. Burley was unique in that it was the only school to be jointly funded and generally under the jurisdiction of the City of Charlottesville and the County of Albemarle. Upon graduating from elementary schools, City and County black children alike were regularly assigned to this institution, whereas their white counterparts found themselves assigned to high schools controlled and funded by their original, respective jurisdictions, solely. Setting aside the issue of dual race educational systems, it was seen that the joint Charlottesville-Albemarle venture posed serious difficulties and imposed barriers on its students not experienced likewise by other, normal, schools. In January of 1963, the school boards of each district separately, yet cooperatively approved measures to construct a new facility on the Burley High property for the schooling of entirely black junior high students. The plaintiffs argued that if carried out, the construction project would “considerably delay and for a long time prevent compliance with the mandate of the 14th Amendment-.that local school authorities take steps to end racial discrimination in the assignment of children to public schools.” As a result of Edward W. Rushton, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Charlottesville, saying that the City had resolved to discontinue its participation in the Burley High School at the close of the 1966-67 year, the Court deemed it appropriate to dismiss the case. There was no objection by the counsel for the plaintiff.
Call number Civil Action Case #102
Date from 1963
Date to 1965
Geographic school Charlottesville, Albemarle County
Size unknown
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Repository NARA Mid-Atlantic Region
Repository address 14700 Townsend Road, Philadelphia, PA 19154-1096
Repository contact name David Weber
Repository contact title Director, Records Management Program
Repository contact email philadelphia.reference@nara.gov
Repository contact phone (215) 305-2000
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    Segregation in education
Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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Jefferson School oral history project

Jefferson School oral history project

Creator Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.
Description This project includes a collection of oral histories with people associated with the Jefferson School, Charlottesville’s first African-American high school. The project generated thirty interviews.
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Date from 2002
Date to
Geographic school Charlottesville, VA
Size 2 volumes
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URL http://ppiedmont.squarespace.com/projects/2009/12/2/jefferson-school-oral-history-project.html
Repository Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society
Repository address McIntire Building, 200 Second Street NE, Charlottesville, VA 22902-5245
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Albemarle Charlottesville Historical Society.
Repository contact email info@albemarlehistory.org
Repository contact phone (434) 296-7294
DoveRegion region7
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Education

o    Civil rights movements

o    School integration–Virginia–Charlottesville

o    Segregation in education
Types o    Interviews

o    Manuscripts

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts