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Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Education, Richmond, Superintendent's Memo No. 3025 May 23, 1954
Memo from Dowell J. Howard, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Virginia to Division Superintendents and Chairmen of Local School Boards regarding the Ruling of the Attorney General of Virginia on the Opinion of the Supreme Court of…
Commonwealth of Virginia, Office of the Attorney General, Richmond May 27, 1954
Copy of a letter from Virginia Attorney General J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. to Blake T. Newton, President of the State Board of Education, regarding the legal vitality and efficacy of Section 140 of the Constitution of Virginia. 2 pages
Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Education, Richmond, Superintendents Memo No. 3029 June 7, 1954
Memo from Dowell J. Howard, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Virginia to the Division Superintendent regarding the opinion of the Attorney General and the Statement of the State Board of Education for the continuation of Section…
Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Education, Richmond, Superintendents Memo No. 3029 June 7, 1954
Memo from Dowell J. Howard, Superintendent of Public Instruction for the State of Virginia to the Division Superintendent regarding the opinion of the Attorney General and the Statement of the State Board of Education for the continuation of Section…
Report of a Speech by Attorney General J. Lindsay Almond of Virginia, From Washington Post and Times-Herald, June 8, 1954
Report of a closed meeting between the Attorney General J. Lindsay Almond, Jr. and a 'state agency luncheon group' regarding proposals suggested to him in wake of the Supreme Court decision May 17 holding public school segregation to be…
Commonwealth of Virginia, State Board of Education, Richmond 16, Superintendents Memo No. 3154, June 1, 1955
Memo from Dowell J. Howard, Superintendent of Public Instruction, to The Division Superintendents, relaying the text of the Supreme Court's Opinion on the public school segregation cases. 2 pages
Civil Action No. 331 in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Columbia, Alexandria Division
Move for applicants to intervene as plaintiffs in addition to Constance Carter in Civil Action 331 against the School Board of Arlington County. 34 pages
Committee to Study Problems of Integration in the Arlington Public Schools Appointed June 12, 1954
List of members and respective addresses of appointed members to the committee
Committee to Study Problems of Integration in the Arlington Public Schools Appointed June 12, 1954 by Mrs. Elizabeth P. Campbell and T. Edward Rutter
Annotated list of names, respective addresses, and employers of appointed members to the committee. 3 pages
Minutes of Meeting of Committee to study Problems of Integration in Arlington Schools October 18, 1954
Minutes from the second meeting of the committee on October 18, 1954. 4 pages
Arlington County Public Schools Office of the Superintendent April 21, 1955 memo to the Members of the Committee Studying Problems of Integration in the Arlington Public Schools
Memo to the committee from Elizabeth Campbell, Chairman of the Arlington School Board and Joseph C. McCaskill, Chairman, Integration Committee regarding an upcoming meeting of the Integration Committee
December 15, 1954 Minutes of the Arlington Committee to Study Problems of Integration
Meeting minutes from the December 15 meeting at the office of T. Edward Rutter, Arlington Superintendent of Schools. 2 pages
Minutes of Integration Committee meeting, June 22, 1955
Meeting minutes from the June 22 meeting at the School Administration Building. 2 pages
Arlington School Board Statement Concerning the Committee to Study Problems of Integration in the Public Schools, June 23, 1954
Statement explaining the School Board's decision to set up the committee
First Meeting of Committee to Study Problems on Integration in Arlington Public Schools June 23, 1954
Meeting minutes from the committee's first meeting on June 23, 1954 at Washington-Lee high school. 3 pages
"The New Virginia Law to Preserve Racial Integrity," from Virginia Health Bulletin, vol. XVI, March 1924, Extra No. 2
This Extra edition of the Virginia Health Bulletin discusses and reprints Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924. In the Virginia Law to Preserve Racial Integrity, "white" persons were defined as those with "no trace whatsoever of any blood other…
Extracts from Board Action on 28 June 1971 Concerning Current Litigation Seeking Integration of Drew and Hoffman-Boston Elementary Schools. June 28, 1971.
Statement of Arlington School Board Policy, guidelines to be used in desegregating schools and table showing the consequences of applying guidelines. 5 pages.
Booklet: "Organizing To Save Public Schools 1956-1959. How Virginians rallied to the defense of the public school system in the Virginia Committee for Public Schools", by William Marion Lightsey. 14 pages.
The purpose of the Virginia Committee for Public Schools "...We affirm our determined support of free public education for every child in Virginia. We believe this should continue to be guarantied by the Constitution of Virginia." Booklet describes…
Letter from William M. Lightsey, Executive Secretary, Virginia Committee for Public Schools to the Executive Board Members, February 24, 1959.
Letter announcing an important meeting of the Committee to discuss the legislative position and the statements that might be made at a public hearing before the "Perrow Commission on Education" on March 6. Asking for each local committee to name a…
