William Monroe High School – Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE)

USDC, Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division, Civil Action Case #3438- John W. Scott, Jr., etc., et al vs. School Board of the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia, et al

Creator	USDC, Eastern District of Virginia, Richmond Division
Description	The plaintiffs in this case sought admission to a predominately white school, complying with the administrative requirements of Virginia’s statutes as they pertained to the placement of pupils. The applications were denied by the Pupil Placement Board and the plaintiffs subsequently assigned to a local all-black high school. Lack of academic qualifications and the distance from residence to school were cited as the grounds for the denial. The movement is for the Court to intervene. The city has one white high school and one black high school. The State Pupil Placement Board had to date already placed nine black students into predominately white public schools. The Court ruled that “scholastic tests and residential requirements may be a proper basis for the assignment of pupils, but these criteria must be applied equally to white and Negro children;” white students were admitted the City’s only white high school, James Monroe School, without being subject to the same “tests” as their African-American counterparts. The Court will intervene and grant the requested general injunction.
Call number	Civil Action Case #3438
Date from	1962
Date to	1973
Geographic school	Fredericksburg, VA
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 Public schools o School children o School integration o Segregation in education
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USDC, Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville Division, Civil Action Case #103- James S. Buckner, JR., et al vs. the County School Board Greene County, Virginia, et al

Creator	USDC, Western District of Virginia, Charlottesville Division
Description	In an April 1963 suit, the parents of several black school children residing in Greene County, VA brought suit against the County School Board. The parents suit revolved around the fact that their children had been assigned(and had their transfer requests denied) to Burley High School in Charlottesville, along with all other black elementary school graduates, while their white counterparts were assigned to William Monroe High School located in Greene County. The case was quickly dismissed after the Commonwealth’s Pupil Placement Board suggested that it had placed all of the plaintiffs in the case in the schools that they desired with the exception of those who had not adequately filled out the necessary paperwork for transfer. The plaintiffs appealed the case to the U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals a year later on the following merits: 1) Some African American students were voluntarily still attending Burley High School in Charlottesville, despite it not being compulsory. The plaintiffs believed that said students would be forced to attend the single high school in Greene County, William Monroe. 2) There was a continuation of segregation in school busing in that not a single black student shared a bus with a single white student. 3) The continued voluntary separation of the races in the elementary schools of the County. It was determined that the Greene County School Board was in full compliance with the law and had been cooperative throughout the case; the injunction sought by the plaintiffs was denied.
Call number	Civil Action Case #103
Date from	1963
Date to	1966
Geographic school	Greene County, VA
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 Busing for school integration o High school students o Public schools o School integration o Segregation in education o Public schools–Virginia–Charlottesville o Virginia. Pupil Placement Board o United States. Court of Appeals (4th Circuit)
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