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Letter to President Dwight D. Eisenhower from William West, Secretary, Seventh District, Virginia NAACP, dated September 16, 1959. Protests closing of public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia, providing makeshift schools for only white…

Letter to Barbara Marx from William A. West informing her of the location of the March meeting of the Seventh District State Conference.

Letter asking Mrs. Marx to prepare an agenda and commenting on how the last meeting was conducted. Page 3.

Letter asking Mrs. Marx to prepare an agenda and commenting on how the last meeting was conducted. Page 2.

Letter asking Mrs. Marx to prepare an agenda and commenting on how the last meeting was conducted. Page 1.

Remarks made by Representative Watkins Abbitt on Thursday, June 9, 1955. Rep. Abbitt reads a statement prepared by the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, an organization formed in opposition to the Supreme Court's ruling…

Lists the various colleges attended by the 1954 Washington-Lee High School, Arlington, VA, graduating class. Report issued January 17, 1955. 2 pages.

Washington Post Newspaper Article, January 29, 1959, Delay Denied Arlington On Negro Pupils, by Susanna McBee. Covers Alexandria Federal Judge Albert V. Bryan's refusal to delay the entry of four African-American Students into Arlington's Stratford…

Washington Post Newspaper Article, September 3, 1958, Start Delayed By Arlington. Arlington School Board delays entry of four African-American students into Stratford Junior High School stating that the Board has no authority to make pupil…

Newspaper Article: "Placement Board Approves Transfer of 195 Negro Pupils in Alexandria", Washington Post.

2 Washington Post and Times Herald newspaper articles, the text of Judge Albert V. Bryan's Arlington desegregation order, and brief profile (including photos) of 4 Arlington African-American students, Ronald Deskins, Michael Jones, Lance Newman, and…

2 Washington Post newspaper articles, Bryan Delays Desegregation Until January, by Robert E. Baker, Arlington Heads Sigh With Relief, by John Lawson. Both articles September 18, 1958. Includes photo of Judge Albert V. Bryan.

2 Washington Post newspaper articles, Kaul Asserts Public Favors Integration To Closing Schools (partial article), by John Lawson, August 28,1958, Arlington (School Board) Ready To Assign Pupils, by Robert Baker, August, 17, 1958.

4 Washington Post Articles, Bias In Schools Of Arlington Denied By Early by Richard Morris, September 10, 1949, Faulkner's Views (letter to the editor written by Mattie M. Thurston), March 11, 1958, Finding The Roots Of Race Tensions by Malvina…

Newspaper article: "Fairfax Promises Full Desegregation", Washington Post.

Newspaper article, "Justices Let Norfolk End Court-Ordered Busing Plan", Washington Post, November 4, 1986, pg. A1. 2 pages.

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…

Gray Report, proposed Virginia Constitutional amendment on tuition

Copy of article from Washington Post and Times Harold in which "plaintiffs include three white children who say they are being discriminated against because they are unable to attend classes with Negroes and 19 Negro children who say they are being…

Copy of newspaper article from Washington Post and Times Herald, Wednesday, July 11, 1956, "NAACP Replies in County Suit." 2 pages front and back.