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Letter from Barbara Marx on behalf of the Community Council for Social Progress regarding Simeon Booker speaking at an upcoming Council meeting.

Lists of names, addresses, and phone numbers of Community Council for Social Progress members and the committee they will or may serve on.

Letter stating the Executive Committee of the Community Council for Social Progress's resolution requesting the Arlington School Board to reduce Summer School tuition, citing the opportunities for summer school for academically talented students.

Letter to Barbara Marx regarding community interest in serving on the Community Council for Social Progress' Education Committee.

Family dinner program for NAACP meeting on the topic "How Goes the Fight for Civil Rights." 2 pages, handwritten notes on second page

Community Council for Social Progress sponsored event regarding student dropout rates. 2 pages

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

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Memo informing the School Board that in a meeting of representatives of civil rights organizations of Arlington, Rev. A. W. Walls and Mrs. Barbara S. Marx were nominated to be on the Board's new committee. 2 pages

Description of meeting of representatives of civil rights organizations of Arlington on Wednesday, June 17 hosted by the Community Council for Social Progress, Regarding the Citizens' Advisory Committee on Criteria for attendance areas for 1964-1966.…

Recommendation to close Hoffman-Boston School by the end of the 1962-1963 school year. 2 pages

Meeting notice for the Community Council for Social Progress with the topic "Perspectives in Social Action." 2 pages, front and back

Meeting notice for the Community Council for Social Progress with the topic "What it Means to be a Liberal in Greenville." 2 pages, front and back

Meeting notice for the Community Council for Social Progress at the Unitarian Church of Arlington regarding "School Integration - A Challenge and a Dilemma"

Program and Registration Slip for the Community Council for Social Progress' Job Opportunities Workshop

Letter publicizing an upcoming workshop hosted by the Community Council for Social Progress on job opportunities

Announcement of Council meeting to hear a "plan" proposed by a professor and dean of the University of Virginia regarding public schools in Virginia after the Supreme Court decision making compulsory segregation in schools unconstitutional.

Letter to the editor of the Daily Sun, detailing a recent pro-integration meeting the author observed and asking for opinions from Arlingtonians. 2 pages, second page unrelated to article

Document detailing the current situation of discrimination and segregation in Arlington compiled by the Arlington County Human Relations Council. Two pages

Leter from the Central Arlington Civic Association to the Arlington County School Board regarding the challenges of building a school at the Douglas Park Site. 3 pages