Booklet: "Organizing To Save Public Schools 1956-1959. How Virginians rallied to the defense of the public school system in the Virginia Committee for Public Schools", by William Marion Lightsey. 14 pages.

Booklet: "Organizing To Save Public Schools 1956-1959. How Virginians rallied to the defense of the public school system in the Virginia Committee for Public Schools", by William Marion Lightsey. 14 pages.

The purpose of the Virginia Committee for Public Schools "...We affirm our determined support of free public education for every child in Virginia. We believe this should continue to be guarantied by the Constitution of Virginia." Booklet describes and explains the development of the Virginia Committee For Public Schools from three local committees to a Statewide organization of 25,000 members. Describes and explains the purpose of the committee to keep Public Schools open in Virginia in spite of the use of "massive resistance" against Court ordered desegregation of public schools. Recounts the work of the Committee chronologically and legally.

Virginia Committee for Public Schools and William Marion Lightsey

RG 19, The Personal Papers of Elizabeth Pfohl Campbell

No Date

This image is subject to copyright. nauthorized use of the images in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited.

pdf

19_1_12_1

1950s