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Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech

Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech

Creator University Archives
Description The Timeline of Black History at Virginia Tech chronicles important individuals, groups, events and dates, outstanding achievements, and newspaper articles pertaining to the history of African-Americans in the university and the community.
Call number
Date from 1890
Date to 2002
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size unknown
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/blackhistory/timeline
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
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Subjects o    African American students

o    African Americans–Civil rights

o    Public schools

o    School integration

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Types o    Documentary Films

o    Narrative

o    Oral History

o    Photographs
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Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project

Black Women at Virginia Tech Oral History Project

Creator Elaine Dowe Carter, Tamara Kennelly
Description These interviews focus on the entry experience of the individual into the Virginia Tech community and the interviewees’ perceptions of the climate and attitudes within the university community, particularly as pertains to race and gender. The materials in this collection includes cassette tapes, DAT tapes, and transcripts of interviews with some of the first black women students at Virginia Tech (Jacquelyn Butler Blackwell, Marguerite Harper Scott, and Linda Edmunds Turner); Marva Felder Davis, first black homecoming queen; Cheryl Butler McDonald, first black woman in the Corps of Cadets; and Elaine Carter, catalyst of the project and doctoral candidate at Virginia Tech. Interviews were conducted by Elaine Dowe Carter and University Archivist Tamara Kennelly.
Call number Ms95-026
Date from 1995
Date to 2001
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size Unknown
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/blackwomen/
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
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    African Americans–Segregation

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School integration

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Types Oral History
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Racial and Ethnic Minorities newsclippings (Virginia Tech)

Racial and Ethnic Minorities newsclippings (Virginia Tech)

Creator University Archives
Description Collection of newspaper clippings regarding racial incidents, black student activities and concerns, and the progress or lack thereof by Virginia Tech in the hiring of black faculty and recruitment of black students. First clipping is dated 1953 but the bulk of the clippings postdate 1970.
Call number RG 8/2/8c
Date from 1953
Date to 2008
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 3 folders
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
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    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Types Clippings
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Minority Newsletter (Virginia Tech)

Minority Newsletter (Virginia Tech)

Creator Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office
Description These two issues of the Minority Newsletter focus on the first black alumni reunion, the retention of minorities in engineering, general news of interest to minorities, an obituary for T. J. Anderson Jr., and an article by Dean of Students James W. Dean describing conditions and events during the initial integration of Virginia Tech and the town of Blacksburg.
Call number RG 2/12, Box 20, Folders 19-20
Date from 1987
Date to 1987
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 2 items
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    Race relations

o    School integration

o    Segregation in higher education
Types o    Organizational Records

o    Pamphlets
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Records of the Board of Visitors (Virginia Tech)

Records of the Board of Visitors (Virginia Tech)

Creator Va Tech Board of Visitors
Description The BOV (Board of Visitors) files contain a few references to desegregation issues, including consideration in 1943 of establishing an integrated honorary society, Tau Sigma Delta, to establish a chapter (box 7037,, folder titled “1939-43 Board of Visitors Meetings (letters of to)”); reference to a training session for Negro workers found in the Annual Report of School of Agriculture to VPI Board of Visitors – August 1960 (box 7038, BOV 1950-59, folder titled Annual Board Reports 1960); report by President Newman on 2 matters “having to do with Negroes at VPI (box 9538 BOV 1955-59, volume XXIV); issue of allowing black members of professional groups whose meetings include a meal to eat with the group in college facilities (box 9539 BOV 1950-54, vol. XXI 1953 (addendum after p. 130 of 7-28-53 meeting)); consideration of the request of two Negro students to live on campus (box 9545, BOV 1960-65, vol. XXVIII 1960, meeting of May 10, p. 52; and another consideration of allowing Negro students to live on campus, as well as their attendance at Ring Dance (box 9545, vol. XXIX 1961, Feb 14 meeting).
Call number RG 1
Date from 1943
Date to 1961
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size
Access restrictions yes/no yes
Access restrictions Permission must be sought through the University Archivist.
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    Segregation in higher education
Types o    Correspondence

o    Legal documents
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Black Alumni Reunion 1999 (Virginia Tech)

Black Alumni 1999 (Virginia Tech)

Creator Virginia Tech Special Collections
Description Contains materials related to the 1999 Virginia Tech Black Alumni Reunion, including a questionnaire, schedule of events, list of participants (giving current address and year of graduation), two printed articles on Tech’s early black history, “Breaking the Double Barrier The First Black Women at Tech” and “The First Black Students at Virginia Tech,” and a Fall 1998 issue of Diversity News (a publication of Tech’s EOAA Office).
Call number RG 29/8
Date from 1998
Date to 1999
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 1 folder
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 Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    Segregation in education
Types o    Maps

o    Memorabilia
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Black Student Directory (Virginia Tech)

Black Student Directory (Virginia Tech)

Creator Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office
Description The EO/AA Office began publishing a Black Student Directory in 1977. This edition contains a list of black organizations on campus, names and both campus address and hometown of undergraduate and graduate students, a list of students by major, and a list of black faculty and staff at Virginia Tech in 1986-87.
Call number RG 2/12, Box 20, Folder 19
Date from 1986
Date to 1987
Geographic school Blacksburg and elsewhere
Size 1 softbound 74 page booklet
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
Types o    Organizational Records

o    Pamphlets
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Linda Edmonds Scrap Book

Linda Edmonds Scrap Book

Creator Linda Edmonds (Turner)
Description Color photocopy of scrapbook made by Linda Edmonds (Turner), one of the six first six black women students at Virginia Tech that came to the university in 1966. The scrapbook includes materials from her time at Virginia Tech as well as images of her family, her three-room elementary school, and materials related to Dean College where she was assistant vice president.
Call number LD5655 A7942 1997 VPI
Date from 1966
Date to 1996
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 1 volume
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no no
Larger collection title
URL http://spec.lib.vt.edu/archives/blackwomen/edmondhp.htm
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–Segregation

o    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    School integration

o    Segregation in education

o    Segregation in higher education

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

o    Dean College (Franklin, Mass.)

o    Turner, Linda Edmonds, 1948-
Types o    Memorabilia

o    Photographs
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Affirmative Action/EEO Division (Virginia Tech) Information 

Affirmative Action/EEO Division (Virginia Tech) Information 

Creator Virginia Tech Special Collections
Description Collection of news clippings, flyers, brochures and reports related to Virginia Tech’s affirmative action and equal opportunity efforts, events, and activities between the early 1980’s and 2010. Collection contains mention of Tech staff responsible for affirmative action, EEO guidelines for recruiting faculty in 1984, and a 1987 statistical report on Ethnic Minority Enrollment.
Call number RG 6/4/5
Date from 1981
Date to 2010
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 2 folders
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no
Larger collection title
URL
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
Repository contact email specref@vt.edu
Repository contact phone (540) 231-6308
DoveRegion region1
Subjects o    African American students

o    Race relations

o    Affirmative action programs — Virginia — Blacksburg

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Types o    Clippings

o    Organizational Records

o    Pamphlets

o    Reports
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Dean of Women, 1967-68 (Virginia Tech)

Dean of Women, 1967-68 (Virginia Tech)

Creator Office of the Vice President, Warren W. Brandt
Description Letter form Martha Harder, Dean of Women at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute to T. Marshall Hahn, President of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Letter discusses the interracial relationships of two couples and the policies of the college regarding the situation. Letter describes a meeting that Dean Harder had with the two female students and the advice that she gave them.
Call number RG 3/4
Date from 1964
Date to 1968
Geographic school Blacksburg, VA
Size 1 document
Access restrictions yes/no no
Access restrictions
Part Of larger collection yes/no yes
Larger collection title
URL http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/vt/viblbv00744.xml.frame
Repository Virginia Tech Special Collections
Repository address University Libraries, P.O. Box 90001, Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Repository contact name Aaron D. Purcell
Repository contact title Director, Special Collections
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    Public schools

o    Race relations

o    Segregation in education

o    College students

o    Interracial dating

o    Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Types o    Annual reports

o    Correspondence

o    Reports