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Description of conditions one hour before Stratford School desegregation begins on 2/2/1959, n.d.
Conditions on first Day Stratford Junior High School Desegregation, 2/2/1959
Memo, Procedures for Admittance for Negro pupils to Stratford Junior High, 1/22/1959
Planned procedures for Stratford Junior High School Desegregation by Arlington County School Board for pupils, news personnel, authorized persons in area, police protection
Memo, Ray Reid Arlington Schools Superintendent to Newspapers, Magazines and Television about Press Coverage of Opening of School, 8/29/1958
Notice to News Media that they will not be admitted on opening day of any Arlington Schools which are integrating to protect safety and education of pupils
Memo from Stratford Junior High to Superintendent of Schools, 2/2/1959, 8 pages
Conditions on first Day Stratford Junior High School Desegregation, 2/2/1959
Description of conditions one hour before Stratford School desegregation begins on 2/2/1959, n.d.
Conditions on first Day Stratford Junior High School Desegregation, 2/2/1959
Letter to the Editor by Edmund Gibson, Reprint from Richmond News-Leader, 6/2/1958
The Life and Times of Arlington County, Critic of Progressive Education Chronicles a Remarkable Tale, anti-desegregation, Edmund Gibson, Defenders of State Sovereignty
Letter, Defenders of Sate Sovereignty and Individual Liberties to Stratford Student, 1/30/1959
Stratford Students urged to boycott school after admission of 4 Negro students
Letter, Elizabeth Campbell to Editor Washington Post, n.d. 2 pages.
Behavior of individuals at Washington Lee Speech of Overstreets, Defenders of Individual Liberties, Mrs. Helen Lane, Arlington School Board
Telegram, Mrs. Richard B. Young to Clark Keating, 2/29/1957, 4 pages., includes envelope
Against Overstreets, former Communists speaking at Washington-Lee High School
Letter, Jack Rathbone to Daniel Dugan, 2 pages.
Criticism Desegregation groups, Massive Resistance, Commonwealth Attorney William Hassan, private schools. Booth, Campbell
Typewritten copy, Resolution, American Council of Churches, 4/29 -5/2[??], and Defenders of State Sovereignty reproduction of Paul Harvey comments, n.d. 2 pages
First page: Resolution of American Council of Churches, Greenvile S.C. 4/29-5/2[??] , Opposition to National Council of Churches call for a non-segregated church in a non-segregated world. Second page: Defenders of State Sovereignty, Paul Harvey…
Reprint from Virginia Record, 8/1955
Defenders of State Sovereignty, Robert Crawford, William Maxey Jr. William Cocke Jr.
News clipping, Women are Near Blows at School, n.d., 4 pages, 2 pages are verso on newspaper
Washington-Lee High School, Speakers Harry and Bonaro Overstreet were former Communists
News clipping, Washington Afro-American, 8/24/1956
Headline: Judge outlaws segregation in Arlington (VA) schools
"An Appeal For Common Sense", Address before the American Association of University women, Arlington Branch, by Mrs. Agnes E. Meyer, April 14, ?. 8 pages.
Speech encouraging individuals to not give into fear and anxiety but to "speak our minds fearlessly" against those trying to subvert people's trust in the public educational system.
"Chart on Elementary School Education", National Education Association, Defense Commission, March 4, 1954. 2 pages.
Copy of article explaining the origin of an advertisement taken out in the Washington Evening Star on March 2, 1954 by B.M. "Red" Miller of Arlington in which a chart is presented with "Up-to-date Traditional Education" on one side and "Education for…
"The Church's Role in Educational Controversy", Speech to be delivered by Lindley J. Stiles, Dean, School of Education, University of Virginia, to Arlington Ministerial Association, Clarendon Baptist Church, April 29, 1954. 3 pages.
Speech commenting on the attacks on public education and the need for religious leaders to help to reestablish an atmosphere which permits an objective examination of educational problems. To do so, churches must remove themselves from being…
"Strategy and Tactics of World Communism", Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-Third Congress, Second Session on Strategy and Tactics of Communism, Part 2, June 10, 15, and 17, 1954. 42 pages.
Testimony of John C. Caldwell, J. Anthony Marcus, General Albert C. Wedemeyer.
"A Foundation Education Program For Virginia, Report of the Commission to the Governor and the General Assembly of Virginia", Senate Document No. 13, November 26, 1951. 14 pages.
Commission set up to study and report on the establishment of a foundation program containing the fundamental courses in public schools which are basic to the education programs to be financed by the State.
Pamphlet: "Charter of the City of Arlington, House Bill 319, Chapter 367, Acts of Assembly, 1946", March 28, 1946. 14 pages.
An Act to provide for the creation and incorporation of the City of Arlington.