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Brief On Behalf Of Appellees For Case No. 7310 In The United States Court Of Appeals For The United States District Court For The Eastern District Of Virginia, Alexandria Division, Arlington County School Board and T. Edward Rutter, Division…

Document giving timeline and chronological series of events, court decisions, etc. relating to Arlington County and desegregation of public schools. Undated and unattributed.

Activists and parents gathering of first day of Stratford desegregation. Dorothy Hamm, Phyllis Costley, Mr. and Mrs. Deskins, Mrs. Thompson, Theda Henle, Lerner, Newman, Jones, Ronald Deskins, interactions with police and reporters

Newsletter of the Fairfax County Council on Human Relations. Includes PTA Federation to Consider Resolutions on Interracial Sports Ban". Board of Directors of the Council authorized the preparation of a letter to the Fairfax County School Board…

Letter requesting legal help in challenging a "minor law of the Massive Resistance package" on athletic discrimination against "Negro" tudents in formerly white schools who are not allowed to participate in school sports.

Letter requesting legal help in helping to end athletic discrimination against "Negro" tudents in formerly white schools who are not allowed to participate in school sports.

Excerpts from the Arlington School Board Minutes in which the Arlington School Board accepts the policy of House Journal Resolution # 97 of March 2, 1956 accepting "No athletic team of any public free school should engage in any athletic contestith…

James M. Nabrit III agrees to having the NAACP help Fairfax County parents stop the practice of segregated school sports. Asks Barbara S. Marx to ask the parents of Arlington and Alexandria to contact NAACP to help them as well. NAACP policy is to…

Proposed Drew School building and additional classroom locations, Desegregation. Two copies, 8 pages.

Proposed Drew School building and additional classroom locations, Desegregation, Douglas Park site, Montgomery County, 3 pages.

Opposition to Drew building expansion because of potential segregation

Letter from an Arlington attorney, Lee Bean, to William F. Kay, executive secretary of the Arlington Education Association advising the validity of the Drew School's de facto segregation. Letter makes comparisons to many national and local court…

Letter/Document concerning remedy/remedies to the problem of school children who've been isolated from most other students their age because of segregation, zoning lines, etc. Advocates for a "compensitory education" program to help isolated student…

John K. Hart, Et Al, vs. County School Board Of Arlington County, Virginia, Et Al, Interrogatories, in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Dated June 1970. 5 pages.

Invitation to a tea honoring Esther Cooper to help her attain a "life membership" to the NAACP. The tea is scheduled for April 8, 1956.

Letter to "Mr. Sweatt" from Barbara Marx with follow-up questions to a phone call between them. Questions are about a civil rights panel Marx is to attend in Cleveland. Letter is dated September 6th, with no written year. Panel was held in 1956.

Two Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper clippings from September 17, 1956. Both are about the recent NAACP meeting in Cleveland; one describes the kickoff speech by the NAACP Executive Secretary Roy Wilkins regarding school desegregation efforts across…

Cleveland Plain Dealer clipping from September 17, 1956: "Schools Operating Under Guard Sign of Racial Tensions." Article is about two schools in Tennessee and Kentucky that are desegregating under the protection of the National Guard.

Two Cleveland Plain Dealer newspaper clippings from September 17, 1956. One is a photograph of Barbara Marx, Roy Wilkins, and Rosa Parks, before a large NAACP meeting in Cleveland. The second is an overview of the school desegregation issue,…

Description of Barbara Marx's work with the NAACP since 1949, and announcement of the intention of local NAACP members to plan a testimonial to get Marx a Lifetime Membership to the NAACP. Paper is dated 1956.