Farmville – Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE)

Not Our Children

Creator	Phoenix Productions, Inc.
Description	Oral histories collected in 1992 by Ken Hoen and Laurie Hoen as research for a documentary film on the closing of the Farmville, Prince Edward County, Va., public schools, 1959-1963, in response to federally-ordered desegregation.
Call number	Mss15 N8437 a
Date from	1959
Date to	1963
Geographic school	Prince Edward County, VA
Size	15 items (printed booklet and 14 audio cassettes)
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Repository	Virginia Historical Society
Repository address	428 North Boulevard, Richmond, VA 23220
Repository contact name	L. Eileen Parris
Repository contact title	Archivist
Repository contact email	eparris@vahistorical.org
Repository contact phone	(804) 358-4901
DoveRegion	region5
Subjects	o African American students–Virginia o African Americans–Civil rights–Virginia o Civil rights movements–Virginia o Prince Edward County (Va.) o Public schools–Virginia–Prince Edward County o School integration–Massive resistance movement o Segregation in education
Types	o Interviews o Manuscripts o Sound recordings o Transcripts

AFSC Work in the Prince Edward County Virginia School Closing Issue

Creator	American Friends Service Committee
Description	The material provides details about the Emergency Student Placement Program as well as some locally organized activities in Farmville, Virginia. Many of the documents represent observations about events and conditions associated with the Prince Edward County school closing issue. These may be of particular interest to historians, journalists, documentary producers, educators, legal authorities, among others, especially as they bear on the origin and history of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1954 school desegregation decision and subsequent civil rights developments.
Call number	none
Date from	1959
Date to	1965
Geographic school	Prince Edward County, VA
Size	unknown
Access restrictions yes/no	yes
Access restrictions	Researchers must apply for access
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URL	http://webarchive.afsc.org/archives/princeedward/princeed.htm
Repository	American Friends Service Committee
Repository address	1501 Cherry St., Philadelphia, PA 19102
Repository contact name	American Friends Service Committee
Repository contact title	American Friends Service Committee
Repository contact email	info@afsc.org
Repository contact phone	(215) 241-7000
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–Massive resistance movement o Segregation in education o Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education–Trials, litigation, etc. o American Friends Service Committee
Types	o Annual reports o Correspondence o Minutes o Narrative o Organizational Records