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Charles Rogers Fenwick papers (1901-1969)

Charles Rogers Fenwick papers (1901-1969)

Creator Fenwick, Charles Rogers (1901-1969)
Description Lawyer and State legislator, of Arlington, Va. Correspondence, minutes, financial papers, speeches, documents, biographical material, press releases, clippings, scrapbooks, and photos, relating chiefly to Fenwick’s work as a member of State Democratic Central Committee and chairman of 10th District Executive Committee. Includes material on 1966 senatorial campaigns of Harry Byrd (b. 1914) and A. Willis Robertson, 1964 and 1968 national elections, 1965 gubernatorial election, and Fenwick’s own 1963 and 1967 State senatorial campaigns and 1945 race for lieutenant governor and the contested results and court case in Wise County, Va.; Virginia constitutional amendments (1967-68), bond issue for higher education and mental health (1968), school integration and the Perrow Commission report (1959); and his tenure as member of Board of Visitors of University of Virginia and the development and expansion of George Mason College, Fairfax, Va. Correspondents include Watkins M. Abbitt, and Harry F. Byrd, Sr.
Call number MS 81-359
Date from 1940
Date to 1969
Geographic school Arlington, VA
Size 11 ft. (ca. 11,200 items)
Access restrictions yes/no
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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    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School integration

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

o    Robertson, A. Willis (Absolam Willis), 1887-1971

o    Virginia. General Assembly

o    University of Virginia

o    George Mason University

o    Legislators–Virginia–Arlington

o    Fenwick, Charles R. (Charles Rogers), 1901-1969
Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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Kathryn H. Stone papers 

Kathryn H. Stone papers 

Creator Suzanne Stone
Description There are ca. 225 items, 1916 (1941-1985) 1995, of Kathryn H. Stone consisting of correspondence, papers, and printed material pertaining to Stone and her political career, 1932-1995. Material on Burgundy Farm Country Day School consists of organizational papers, by-laws, history, and brochures, 1946-1971; and Burgundy Voices and papers concerning campus renewal and the campaign to raise funds, 1992-1995. Burgundy Farm Country Day School enrolled African-American students in 1950. Topics discussed in the correspondence include: the Governor’s Commission on the Status of Women in Virginia(January 8, 1968); Stone’s state papers and the George Mason Library (May 29, 1969); the National Civil Service League papers and the University of Wyoming Archive of Contemporary History (September 6, 1970); Arlington School Integration 1959-1984 (June 11, 1984); Acharya Kakasaheb Kalelkar (November 27 and December 9, 1985); the Coalition to Improve Management in State and Local Government(July 28, 1986); Stone’s contribution to the Virginiana and archival collections of the Arlington County Public Library(January 23, 1985); and, personal news of family and friends, 1981-1995. Among the correspondence of the Stone children and grandchildren are letters of Abel L. Lenz and a newspaper article (post 1986) on Joanna Stone. The League of Women Voters papers contain material on woman suffrage, Anna Lord Strauss, Belle Sherwin (October 11, 1986 letter), and, the 70th anniversary of the LWV; and, also include a certificate of merit presented to Stone in 1986, a list of former board members (August 1986), and, two pamphlets. Newspaper articles, 1941-1995, pertain to Stone and her political career and include her obituaries. There are two photographs of Kathryn Haeseler (Meyers) Stone on a Camera Club Hike in 1932. Political papers include a press release on the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress(June 11, 1945); campaign material for 1953, 1961, and 1963; statements concerning the consideration of Stone for the position of Undersecretary of Health, Education and Welfare (January 3 & 6, 1961); “Testimony of Mrs. Kathryn H. Stone … before the State Mental Hygiene and Hospital Board, Richmond, Virginia –March 9, 1961”; and, a statement pertaining to a bill to provide a minimum wage for Virginia (February 5, 1964). Material on women issues include Stone’s article, “Women as Citizens,” May 1947, and miscellaneous newspaper articles; material on youth issues include a broadside on “The League of Women Voters of Arlington, VA….An Adequate Juvenile Care Program…March 14, 1953, and other papers.
Call number Accession number 10555-c
Date from 1916
Date to 1995
Geographic school Alexandria, Arlington, Fairfax County, VA
Size ca. 225 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 integration

o    Segregation in education

o    League of Women Voters (U.S.)

o    Public schools–Virginia–Arlington

o    Stone, Kathryn H. (Kathryn Haeseler), 1906-1995

o    Burgundy Farm Country Day School

o    Virginia. Commission on the Status of Women
Types o    Clippings

o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of reporter Neal Strozier commenting on a public address by Virginal governor J. Lindsay Almond in Richmond, Virginia and on the recent integration of the previously all-white schools in Arlington County and Norfolk, Virginia, 1959 Fe

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of reporter Neal Strozier commenting on a public address by Virginal governor J. Lindsay Almond in Richmond, Virginia and on the recent integration of the previously all-white schools in Arlington County and Norfolk, Virginia, 1959 Fe

Creator WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Description Reporter: Strozier, Neal. In this WSB newsfilm clip from February 7, 1959, correspondent Neal Strozier speaking from Arlington County, Virginia, comments on the recent integration of the all-white schools in Arlington County and Norfolk, as well as a public address by governor J. Lindsay Almond in Richmond, Virginia. The clip begins with Strozier standing in front of Stratford Junior High School in Arlington County, Virginia as people enter the school. According to Strozier, twenty-one African American students began attending seven previously all-white schools in Norfolk and Arlington County, Virginia earlier that week. He reports that all seven of the schools are maintaining security precautions. While he speaks, the camera shows a uniformed policeman outside the school. The clip breaks and then shows Strozier again, this time standing in front of the Virginia State Capitol in Richmond. While he speaks, the camera focuses on flags flying above the capitol building and on the legislative chamber and people inside it. Strozier commends the state for its “grace and dignity” during integration. He mentions a public address by governor J. Lindsay Almond on January 28 in which the governor “rejected extremist demands for obstruction at all cost.” For a few moments the clip shows Almond’s January 28 speech. Strozier begins speaking again; while he speaks, the camera returns to Stratford Junior High School in Arlington, Virginia. A policeman stands behind a “No trespassing” sign, and young women in winter clothing carry books and walk past reporters toward the school. African American students, three boys and one girl, get out of a car; the driver makes an adjustment before closing the door. Later the camera shows a Norfolk school where one African American student sits in a classroom with white students as the teacher walks back and forth in front of the classroom. Strozier, speaking again of Almond’s January 28th speech, relays the governor’s call for observance of federal law and for “keeping with Virginia’s tradition of peace and order.” Strozier confirms that local authorities in Arlington County have “shown every determination to keep peace and order” and that there white students are starting to accept their new African American peers. He also reports that schools in Norfolk, which had been closed for half a year to prevent integration are now attended by both white and African American students. While not every student has returned, he notes that those who are in school seem more interested in resuming their education than in the fact of integration. As the camera pans back to focus on Strozier, he states that police in Norfolk and in Arlington are prepared for racial incidents and praises the restraint shown in the communities. The clip audio breaks for a moment, after which Strozier comments that state and local officials surrendered “gracefully” after fighting to the end. He also notes that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) “has refrained from actively pushing integration further south in Virginia where feeling might have run higher.” He explains that both the African American community and white officials want to avoid the rioting and tension that occurred during the 1957 desegregation of Little Rock Central High School. The first lawsuit for school integration in Virginia was filed in 1951 in Prince Edward County. The case was eventually incorporated into the 1954 United States Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which ruled against segregation in public education. State officials in Virginia, led by United States senator Harry Byrd, organized a plan of “massive resistance” by passing laws designed to prevent desegregation, including closing schools facing desegregation and providing tuition grants to private schools for displaced white students. In the fall of 1958, schools in Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Warren County, Virginia, were closed after the courts ordered the
Call number
Date from 1959 February 07
Date to 1959 February 07
Geographic school Arlington County and Norfolk, VA
Size 1 clip (about 2 min.)
Access restrictions yes/no
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Repository The Civil Rights Digital Library
Repository address University of Georgia Libraries, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1641
Repository contact name Dr. P. Toby Graham
Repository contact title Director, Digital Library of Georgia
Repository contact email tgraham@uga.edu
Repository contact phone (706) 583-0213
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School closings

o    School integration

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Strozier, Neal

o    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

o    Central High School (Little Rock, Ark.)

o    Public schools–Virginia–Arlington

o    Public schools–Virginia–Norfolk
Types Broadcast-Television-News
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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of governor J. Lindsay Almond at a press conference declaring that schools will close if federal troops are sent to enforce desegregation, Richmond, Virginia, 1958 August 21

WSB-TV newsfilm clip of governor J. Lindsay Almond at a press conference declaring that schools will close if federal troops are sent to enforce desegregation, Richmond, Virginia, 1958 August 21

Creator WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
Description In this WSB newsfilm clip from August 21, 1958, Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond speaks to reporters at a press conference held in Richmond, Virginia and declares that schools will close if federal troops are sent to enforce desegregation. As the clip begins, Almond is sitting at one end of a table with reporters taking notes at the other end of the table. Almond asserts “there will be no enforced integration in Virginia.” While expressing his respect for president Dwight Eisenhower, he declares without “defiance” that if federal troops are sent to Virginia to enforce court-ordered desegregation, he will close the schools. Governor Almond held a press conference on August 21 in response to comments made by president Eisenhower the day before. According to newspaper reports, Eisenhower declared it was “the solemn duty of all Americans to comply with the Supreme Court’s order to end racial discrimination in public schools.” In other comments made during the press conference and not recorded in this newsfilm clip, Almond defends education as “a state matter” and maintains that desegregation “would destroy the process of education.” During his comments, he asked for support of a state policy against racial integration in public schools. School integration lawsuits in Virginia began in 1951 in Prince Edward County. That case was eventually incorporated into the United States Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education. Almond, who was Virginia attorney general at the time, was one of the lawyers who argued in favor of segregated education. On May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public education. State officials in Virginia organized a plan of “massive resistance” to court-ordered desegregation, passing laws requiring integrated schools to close and providing tuition grants to white students displaced by school desegregation. In the fall of 1958, nine white public schools closed in Norfolk, Charlottesville, and Warren County, Virginia. On January 20, 1959, both state and federal courts overturned the state law requiring integrated schools to close. After the ruling, Almond called a special legislative session during which he announced the end of the “massive resistance” campaign. The following Monday, February 2, 1959, seven schools in Arlington and Norfolk integrated. Title supplied by cataloger. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for digital conversion and description of the WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection.
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Date from 1958 August 21
Date to 1958 August 21
Geographic school Virginia
Size 1 clip (about 1 min.)
Access restrictions yes/no
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Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
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Repository The Civil Rights Digital Library
Repository address University of Georgia Libraries, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1641
Repository contact name Dr. P. Toby Graham
Repository contact title Director, Digital Library of Georgia
Repository contact email tgraham@uga.edu
Repository contact phone (706) 583-0213
DoveRegion (outside of Virginia)
Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    African Americans–Segregation

o    Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School closings

o    School integration

o    School integration–Massive resistance movement

o    Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969

o    Public schools–Virginia–Prince Edward County

o    Public schools–Virginia–Norfolk

o    Public schools–Virginia–Charlottesville

o    Public schools–Virginia–Warren County
Types Broadcast-Television-News
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A Chink in the armor : The Black-led struggle for school desegregation in Arlington, Virginia and the end of massive resistance 

A Chink in the armor : The Black-led struggle for school desegregation in Arlington, Virginia and the end of massive resistance 

Creator James McGrath Morris
Description First published in Journal of Policy History 13.3 (2001) 329-366
Call number
Date from 2001
Date to 2001
Geographic school Arlington County, VA
Size 1 book
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Repository OCLC World Cat/Old Dominion University
Repository address
Repository contact name
Repository contact title Worldcat.org
Repository contact email http://odu.worldcat.org/title/a-chink-in-the-armor-the-black-led-struggle-for-school-desegregation-in-arlington-virginia-and-the-end-of-massive-resistance/oclc/359503762&referer=brief_results
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Subjects o    Arlington County (Va.). School Board

o    School integration–Virginia–Arlington County

o    Segregation in education

o    Segregation–Virginia–Arlington County
Types Book
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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
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Larger collection title
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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
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Arlington County Public Schools: Desegregation Material 

Arlington County Public Schools: Desegregation Material (link)

Creator Arlington County Virginia School System
Description Information related to the integration of Arlington County public schools, including history, redistricting, pupil distribution, and boundary maps.
Call number Record Group 69
Date from 1954
Date to 1976
Geographic school Arlington County, VA
Size 5.9 linear ft.
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Patron is responsible for obtaining any necessary copyright interests and/or literary rights from the owners/donors/heirs pursuant to publishing any work which cites, reproduces, or interprets non-published materials. Library will not assume responsibility
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    African American students

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School children

o    School integration
Types o    Government papers

o    Organizational Records

o    Reports
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Personal Papers of Henry Gardner, 1951-1984

Personal Papers of Henry Gardner, 1951-1984 

Creator Gardner, Henry
Description This collection has one subgroup: Arlington County Public Schools. All the material relates to this topic. All the material in this collection was either produced by the school system or received by the school system. This is a small collection, offering a snapshot of the type of issues Henry Gardner dealt with during his career with the school system.
Call number RG 66
Date from 1951
Date to 1984
Geographic school Arlington County, VA
Size .8 linear ft
Access restrictions yes/no
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URL http://libcat.arlingtonva.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1165049__SHenry+Gardner__Orightresult__X5?lang=eng&suite=cobalt
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    Arlington County (Va.). School Board

o    Segregation in education

o    School integration–Virginia–Arlington County
Types Manuscripts
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Hall’s Hill oral history project

Hall’s Hill oral history project 

Creator Dr. Margaret Mulrooney’s Oral and Local History class at Marymount University.
Description The interviews include discussions about massive resistance and local businesses that were for and against desegregation of public schools. Interviews with educators, activists, and family members of four students are included.
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Date from 2003
Date to
Geographic school Arlington, VA
Size 14 interviews
Access restrictions yes/no
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Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://library.arlingtonva.us/collections/local-history/
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    African American neighborhoods

o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Arlington (Va.)

o    Business enterprises

o    Civil rights movements–Virginia

o    School Integration–Massive resistance movement

o    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Types o    Interviews

o    Sound recordings

o    Transcripts
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Papers of Barbara Marx (collector), 1950-1965

Papers of Barbara Marx (collector), 1950-1965 

Creator Marx, Barbara Spackman
Description RG 18 houses the collected papers of Barbara Marx, a local civil rights advocate who worked for the desegregation of Arlington schools during the 1950s.The papers reflect Marx’s involvement with many organizations including the NAACP, Arlington Community Action Committee, and Arlingtonians for a Better County.
Call number RG 18
Date from 1950
Date to 1965
Geographic school Arlington County, VA
Size 8.4 linear ft. Photographs
Access restrictions yes/no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL http://libcat.arlingtonva.us/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1104272__SPapers+of+Barbara+Marx+%28collector%29%2C+1950-1965__Orightresult__X3?lang=eng&suite=cobalt
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    Arlington County (Va.)

o    National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

o    Race relations

o    School integration–Virginia–Arlington County
Types o    Manuscripts

o    Photographs