{"id":307,"date":"2018-08-28T19:30:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wizwah.gmu.edu\/DOVE\/?p=307"},"modified":"2018-08-28T19:30:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T19:30:21","slug":"307","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/2018\/08\/28\/307\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The Struggle for Civil Rights in Staunton and Augusta County\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<table width=\"970\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Creator<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Josie Dull, Augusta Historical Bulletin<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>This article from Augusta Historical Bulletin, which was submitted as senior thesis for the Adult Degree Program at Mary Baldwin College by Josie Dull explains how desegregation in Staunton, Virginia went more smoothly than other areas of the state and country, in that the black and white citizens of Staunton accepted the &#8220;inevitability of integration.&#8221; The main reason for the smooth transition, was the constant persistence of town citizens (both black and white),community leaders, church leaders and the Staunton branch NAACP of pointing out inequalities of the black and white schools to the Staunton School Board, as well as the pressure to appoint an African-American member to the school board.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Call number<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Date from<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Date to<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Geographic school<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Staunton, VA; Augusta County, VA<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Size<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>22 pages<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Access restrictions yes\/no<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>no<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Access restrictions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Part Of larger collection yes\/no<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Larger collection title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>URL<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/augusta-historical-bulletin\/oclc\/7992273&amp;referer=brief_results\">http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/augusta-historical-bulletin\/oclc\/7992273&amp;referer=brief_results<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Repository<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>OCLC World Cat<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Repository address<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Repository contact name<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Repository contact title<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Repository contact email<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Repository contact phone<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>DoveRegion<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>other<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Subjects<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African American students<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African Americans&#8211;Civil rights<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 African American&#8211;Segregation<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 High school students<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Middle school students<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public schools<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Race relations<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 School children<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 School integration<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Segregation in education<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Topeka (Kan.). Board of Education&#8211;Trials, litigation, etc.<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public schools&#8211;Virginia&#8211;Augusta County<\/p>\n<p>o\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Public schools&#8211;Virginia&#8211;Staunton<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"194\"><strong>Types<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>Narrative<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Struggle for Civil Rights in Staunton and Augusta County\u00a0 Creator Josie Dull, Augusta Historical Bulletin Description This article from Augusta Historical Bulletin, which was submitted as senior thesis for the Adult Degree Program at Mary Baldwin College by Josie Dull explains how desegregation in Staunton, Virginia went more smoothly than other areas of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/2018\/08\/28\/307\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[246,247,29,245],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308,"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dove.gmu.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}