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December 1958 newsletter for the Arlington Branch, NAACP. Previews next meeting, lists upcoming 1959 officers and members of the executive committee. Reports of sales of NAACP Christmas Seals. Newsletter has handwritten notations on officer lists and…

January 1959 newsletter for the Arlington Branch, NAACP. Previews next meeting, lists 1959 branch officers with short biography on each one, gives a history of the founding of the NAACP in advance of its 50th anniversary on February 12.

February 1959 newsletter for the Arlington Branch, NAACP. Previews next meeting, mentions new membership campaign, and comments of the desegregation of Stratford Junior High School. Verso has postmark, stamp, and Barbara Marx address. 2 pages.

Page 12 of a multi-page document on the process of school desegregation in Virginia; other pages of document missing. This page contains portions of speeches made by Governor Stanley on August 27, 1956, and unnamed segregationist lawmaker in…

Memorandum to "NAACP Personnel" from the Executive Secretary, 1960. Text breaks down unnamed Langston Hughes poem with themes and statistics from the effort to desegregate schools and promote civil rights. Then promotes voter registration to further…

March 1959 "Special Edition" newsletter for the Arlington Branch, NAACP. Promotes official Membership Drive and the branch's first youth chapter of the NAACP. Reminds readers to pay poll taxes and register to vote ahead of a probable state or local…

April 1958 newsletter for the Arlington Branch, NAACP. Previews next meeting, has notes on voter registration and the membership drives. Contains short statements congratulating children desegregating schools in Front Royal and assuring federal…

NAACP press release dated April 20, 1959, entitled "26,000 Young People Demonstrate for Integrated Public Education." Reports on the second Youth march for Integrated Schools in Washington DC, where 26,000 college and high school students marched for…

Summary minutes of the 50th annual convention for the NAACP Convention Organization Meeting on July 13, 1959. Details invocation, memorial service for deceased NAACP members, and reports from committees on convention procedure, national youth…

Summary minutes of the 50th annual convention for the NAACP Convention Plenary Session on July 15, 1959. Includes reports from the Credentials Committee and the Rules Committee.

Summary minutes of the 50th annual convention for the NAACP Convention Legislative Session on July 17, 1959. Includes names of Sergeants-at-Arms and reports of the Credentials Committee, "Regional Nominations," and the Constitutional Revision…

October 1958 newsletter for the Arlington Branch, NAACP. Previews next meeting, gives updates on Arlington school desegregation and NAACP 50th Annual Convention, and promotes NAACP Christmas Seals, voting in local and state elections, and the Freedom…

December 1959 newsletter for the Arlington Branch, NAACP. Previews next meeting, lists upcoming 1960 officers and members of the executive committee. Promotes NAACP Christmas Seals, and reports on local challenges to segregated seating laws.

Newsletter for the "CCSP", a youth branch of the Arlington Branch, NAACP, advertising November and December, 1959, events. Requests books for students in Front Royal, previews next meeting, and promotes a New Year's Eve celebration and a casual party…

Booklet entitled "November 1954: The Race Integration Cases" by Charles Wallace Collins, 1954. Gives a segregationist/States Rights view of Brown vs. Board of Education decision and desegregation and civil rights movement. Discusses the South as a…

Booklet entitled "The Race Problem from the Standpoint of One Who Is Concerned About the Evils of Miscegenation," by W. C. George, published February, 1955, by the American States Rights Association. Author promotes segregation as the best way to…

Booklet entitled "Segregation: God's Plan and God's Purpose," by Henry W. Fancher. Gives short biography of the author. Fancher attempts to prove that segregation of the races is supported by Bible verses and teachings from both the Old Testament and…

Booklet entitled "Christian Race Relations Must be Natural, Not Forced," by L. Nelson Bell, 1955. Bell writes of how legal segregation is not right, but forced integration also infringes on individual rights. He maintains that separations based on…

Article from Daily News, "Arlington Family Gets Out of Integration Suit" June 4, 1956. ack C. Orndorff family plagued with "foul and vicious telephones calls" after joining in an anti-segregations suit against the Arlington School Board, decides to…

Document, Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in Court Case, Clarissa S. Thompson, et al. v. County School Board Of Arlington County, Virginia, et al, Civil 1341, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, dated…