Oral History Interview with James Stockard, April 23, 1984

Oral History Interview with James Stockard, April 23, 1984

Desegregation

Arlington County School Board

James Stockard elected to the Arlington School Board, after being involved in the PTA, in 1955 and served for 12 ½ years. His time on the School Board was tumultuous; Mr. Stockard experienced the County’s loss of an elected school board and actively campaigned for desegregation in Arlington Public Schools, among other things. His interview, which mentions his Southern identity twice, sheds light on the regional conflicts that riddled the issue of desegregation in Virginia. He was interviewed for the Arlington Public Library Oral History Program by Edmund Campbell in 1984, and his interview is available in its full audio and typed transcript forms. You can also read and listen to excerpts from his oral history, regarding the loss of the elected school board in Arlington County, the multifaceted issues of school desegregation, and the connection made by opponents to integration between desegregation activists and “communists.”

James Stockard

Arlington County Library Oral History Program

Arlington County Library Oral History Program

23-Apr-84

Edmund Campbell

This interview is subject to copyright. Unauthorized use of the interviews in the Local History Collections of the Arlington Community Archives is prohibited.

English

Oral History

stockardj19840423

1930s-1980s

Edmund Campbell

James Stockard

Arlington County, Virginia

Cassette

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