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Copy of article from Washington Post and Times Harold in which "plaintiffs include three white children who say they are being discriminated against because they are unable to attend classes with Negroes and 19 Negro children who say they are being…

Washington And Lee PTA March 1955 Bulletin issued by the Executive Committee Of The Washington And Lee PTA. Includes upcoming meeting, treasurer's report, main focus in on school integration. 4 page document/bulletin.

Document with schedule of information program of students at Hoffman-Boston who will be transferred to Wakefield. 2 pages

Flyer arguing for a vote against the convention. 2 pages

Flyer promoting a vote against a convention to revise and amend the Constitution to authorize a tuition grant program, prepared by the League of Women Voters of Virginia, Distributed by the Virginia Society for the Preservation of Public Schools. Two…

Flyer promoting a vote against a convention to revise and amend the Constitution to authorize a tuition grant program, prepared by the League of Women Voters of Virginia, Distributed by the Virginia Society for the Preservation of Public Schools. Two…

Virginia State Conference-NAACP report on state of desegregation in Virginia with suggestions for how supporters can help. 4 pages

Proposed tuition grants for private schools, Gray Report, Almond v. Day,

Proposed tuition grants for private schools, Gray Report, Almond v. Day,

Information Sheet compiled and published by the Virginia Society for Preservation of Public Schools against amending the constitution and tuition grants. 9 pages

Information Sheet compiled and published by the Virginia Society for Preservation of Public Schools against amending the constitution and tuition grants. 15 pages

Five female Hoffman-Boston students look at a newspaper.

Handwritten notes on desegregation activities

Multiracial, multigenerational group in the loby of a large modernist building.

Unsigned Memo urging people to vote, how to vote and suggestions on people to vote for. Likely from 1957.

Unsigned letter to Senator Charles Fenwick to ask him to oppose amending the state constitution.

Document detailing the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit regarding the constitutionality of the School Board's redrawing of districts to integrate former Hoffman-Boston students into two new school districts. 7 pages

Handwritten satirical letter, marked "oc/jh" but otherwise undated, unaddressed, and unsigned. Text reads: "Dear Sir: It has come to my attention that the mongrelization of the race and degeneration of our culture, so widely feared, has already come,…

2 newspaper articles, both undated, one from the (Washington) Post concerning a committee organized by Mrs. Elizabeth Campbell to study problems of integrating the Arlington County Public School System. Committee members are named in each article.

2 newspaper articles, both unsourced/unknown attribution, both dealing with how schools with cope with situations and circumstances resulting from the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation in public schools.