Richmond – Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE)

November 2, 2018November 2, 2018

Doherty, James Louis papers (1932-)

Doherty, James Louis papers (1932-)

Creator	Doherty, James Louis (1932-)
Description	Author, of Richmond, Va. Correspondence while serving as chairman of the West End Concerned Parents and Friends, pertaining to desegregation of schools and the publication of Doherty’s book, Race and Education in Richmond (1972), ms. of the book, and essays and reports. Correspondents include Mary Ellen Anderson, Ryland V. Bailey, Myron Berman, John A. Blackburn, Thomas J. Bliley, Callendine Boushall, Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Wilson Walker Cowen, Virginia A. Crockford, William V. Daniel, Earle Dunford, William O. Edwards, Harry Elmore, James D. Farrar, James A. Forbes, William J. Frable, William S. Griffith, Ruth Alice N. Halsband, Clement F. Haynsworth, Robert P. Hildrup, Robert G. Holland, Linwood Holton, Robert Pendleton Hunt, Laurence H. Levy, Nancy G. Levy, Albert Ray Merchent, Walter Frederick Mondale, Herbert C. Mudie, Edwin P. Munson, Richard D. Obenshain, Jacob M. Orndorff, Delano Page, Thomas Fraser Pettigrew, William Edward Poe, Thomas N. Pollard, Wayland W. Rennie,and Joseph M. Salmon.
Call number	MS 77-630
Date from	1969
Date to	1972
Geographic school	Richmond, VA
Size	155 items
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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 o African Americans–Civil rights o African Americans–Segregation o Busing for school integration o Public schools o Race relations o School children o School integration o Segregation in education o Authors, American–Virginia o Anderson, Mary Ellen o Bailey, Ryland V. o Berman, Myron, 1928- o Blackburn, John A. o Bliley, Thomas J. (Thomas Jerome), 1932- o Boushall, Thomas Callendine, 1894- o Byrd, Harry F., Jr. (Harry Flood), 1914-2013 o Cowen, Wilson Walker, 1934-1987 o Dunford, Earle
Types	o Correspondence o Legal documents

October 25, 2018

African-American Richmond: Educational Segregation and Desegregation

African-American Richmond: Educational Segregation and Desegregation

Creator	Virginia Commonwealth University
Description	This portion of the VBHA is comprised of fourteen oral history interviews conducted in 1992 by Virginia Commonwealth University students with African-Americans residing in the Richmond, Virginia metropolitan area. While the interviews focused on the educational experiences of these individuals, other subjects and issues affecting the lives of African-Americans were also discussed by the participants. The typed transcripts of the oral histories were scanned in 1994 to be included in the Virginia Black History Archives database and are accessible from this site.
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Date from	1992
Date to	1992
Geographic school	Richmond, VA
Size	14 interviews
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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 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 Black History Archives Database
Types	Oral History

October 25, 2018

Church Hill [Richmond] oral history collection

Church Hill [Richmond] oral history collection

Creator	Special Collections and Archives
Description	This collection focuses on social and living conditions in Richmond’s Church Hill neighborhood, which was predominantly black, during the era of segregation. Contains three oral histories that connect in particular to the civil rights movement.
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Date from	1982
Date to
Geographic school	Richmond, VA
Size	34 transcripts; audiocassettes
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URL	http://www.library.vcu.edu/jbc/speccoll/vbha/church/church.html
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 African American churches o African American neighborhoods o African American politicians o African Americans–Social conditions o Civil rights movements–Virginia o College integration o School integration–Virginia o Segregation in education–Virginia
Types	o Interviews o Sound recordings o Transcripts

October 23, 2018

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
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Date from	1959 February 07
Date to	1959 February 07
Geographic school	Arlington County and Norfolk, VA
Size	1 clip (about 2 min.)
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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

October 23, 2018

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.)
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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

August 30, 2018August 30, 2018

The Papers of Allan G. Donn

The Papers of Allan G. Donn

Creator	Donn, Allan G.
Description	Allan Gerald Donn was born in 1939 in Norfolk to Milton Donn and Freda Fleder. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts. In 1964, he received a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Harvard University Law School and became engaged to Susan L. Berman who he later married. A year later Donn was admitted to the Virginia State Bar. In 1967, he received a Master of Laws (LLM) in Taxation from Georgetown Law Center. As of 2010, Donn is a member of Willcox and Savage, specializing in partnerships, limited liability companies, taxation and estate planning. While a student at Harvard, Donn was present when the United States Supreme Court heard the school desegregation case, Cocheyse J. Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward County. Allan G. Donn In this pivotal case, the court ruled that closing public schools to avoid desegregation was unconstitutional and ordered that they be reopened. Later, as a member of Norfolk legal firm of Willcox, Savage, Lawrence, Dickson & Spindle, Donn represented the School Board of City of Norfolk in desegregation cases in the late 1960s and 1970s. The collection contains court documents and a research paper related to school desegregation in Prince Edward County, Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia and North Carolina. The first four folders relate to Prince Edward County, Virginia. The last folder contains court documents for a case filed in North Carolina – Swan v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg. It includes an amicus curiae brief filed by the Virginia Attorney General that discusses school desegregation in Norfolk and Richmond Virginia.
Call number	MG 106
Date from	1961
Date to	1970
Geographic school	Prince Edward County, VA; Norfolk, VA; Richmond, VA; Charlotte, NC
Size	One Hollinger document case
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URL	http://www.lib.odu.edu/specialcollections/manuscripts/donn.htm
Repository	Old Dominion University, Special Collections and University Archives
Repository address	Patricia W. & J. Douglas Perry Library, Norfolk, VA 23529-0256
Repository contact name
Repository contact title	Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist
Repository contact email	libspecialcollections@odu.edu
Repository contact phone	(757) 683-4483
DoveRegion	region3
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 Prince Edward County (Va.). County School Board–Trials, litigation, etc. o Public schools–Virginia–Richmond o Public schools–Virginia–Prince Edward County o Public schools–North Carolina–Charlotte
Types	Legal documents

July 24, 2018

WRVA Radio Collection

WRVA Radio Collection

Creator	WRVA Radio
Description	The Library of Virginia’s WRVA Radio Collection covers three-quarters of a century, from the station’s founding to the end of the twentieth century. It includes a wide array of materials related to the history of WRVA, including incorporation files, memos, meeting minutes, FCC license renewal applications, and newsletters; materials about its programs and listener responses to its programs; information on specific employees and announcers such as Alden Aaroe, Bertha Hewlett, Tim Timberlake, and others; and publications promoting WRVA and the Richmond area market to advertisers. The collection also includes photographs; sound recordings; and numerous other documents and memorabilia items related to the station. The series of sound recordings included in the WRVA collection includes 637 CDs reformatted with funds provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. These recordings document an astonishing variety of programs, personalities, and events related to the radio station and its development. Popular musical programs and performers, including the Old Dominion Barn Dance and the Corn Cob Pipe Club, figure prominently in this collection, as do the station’s live reports and commentary on news events of local, state, national, and international significance between the 1930s and 1990s. Numerous special anniversary programs broadcast by the station provide a rich body of information on the station and its history, and feature synopses of important news events covered by WRVA throughout its history.
Call number	none
Date from	1925
Date to	2000
Geographic school	Virginia
Size	ca. 48 cubic feet and 637 compact discs
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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 Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986 o Virginia–Politics and government o Radio broadcasting–Virginia
Types	o Broadcast-radio o Memorabilia o Minutes o Organizational Records o Photographs o Press releases

Tag: Richmond

Oliver Hill Papers

Doherty, James Louis papers (1932-)

African-American Richmond: Educational Segregation and Desegregation

George R. Talcott papers

Church Hill [Richmond] oral history collection

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 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

The Papers of Allan G. Donn

WRVA Radio Collection