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The Fairfax County Council on Human Relations issued this statement in response to events surrounding the desegregation of public schools in Little Rock, Arkansas. The statement points out differences between Little Rock and "Massive Resistance" in Virginia and it discusses concerns about delays in desegregating Northern Virginia's schools.

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Print copy of the Petition.

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Print copy of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education.

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The handbook describes the "Catholic Approach" to racial desegregation and the integration of Catholic schools.

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This pamphlet contains a published transcript of a radio round table discussion between Laird Bell, Arthur Holly Compton, and Ralph W. Tyler. Also, it includes an essay called "A Sense of the Future" by J. Bronowski.

The pamphlet is annotated with handwritten notes.

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This is an article in Time magazine about how racial segregation is changing in the U.S. South. There is a a short passage about the University of Virginia: "When the Harvard football team arrived six years ago at the University of Virginia with a Negro tackle, cries of pain could be heard all over town. Today Virginia makes no such fuss: it has grown accustomed to unsegregated student meetings, even allows Negro nurses to serve on the university hospital staff."

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The Church Federation of Greater Chicago published this pamphlet to share its views about racism and racial discrimination in the Chicago region.

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Several pages from the June 6, 1965 edition of the Danville Register.

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This article reports on a growing movement in the U.S. Congress to protect the authority of state governments in the wake of a series of U.S. Supreme Court decisions overturning states laws. The state lwas discussed include those that mandate racial segregation.

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This is a newspaper clipping of a letter Gregory Swanson wrote to the editor of the Henry County Journal. Swanson expresses his opinion that the United States should first attempt to eradicate inequality at home before "embarking upon a global quest for freedom."

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This is a clipping of an article written by Irving Carlyle, an attorney from Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Carlyle is the leader of the opposition to the Pearsall Plan, a strategy to resist federally-mandated racial integration in North Carolina's schools. Carlyle argues that attempts by lawyers to uphold segregation and resist the Supreme Court will undermine democracy and the rule of law.

Scope and Contents This is a newspaper clipping of an article reporting on a meeting of the Pittsylvania County Citizens Executive Committee. At that meeting, 500 Black residents of the County unanimously voted to support the racial integration of schools, even at the price of having the school system closed.The article reports that Gregory Swanson, who was not invited to the event, spoke. It is reported that he said, "Anyone who asks you to sleep on your rights while they are being stolen-I'd say...

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This is a newspaper clipping of a letter Gregory H. Swanson wrote to the editor of the Washington Post. In the letter, Swanson, responding to an earlier editorial titled "Babel", expresses his opininon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be more open and honest about his positions on racial desegregation.

There are multiple copies of this editorial letter in Swanson's civil rights subject file.

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This is a newspaper clipping of a letter Gregory H. Swanson wrote to the editor of the Washington Post. In the letter, Swanson, responding to an earlier editorial titled "Babel", expresses his opininon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be more open and honest about his positions on racial desegregation.

There are multiple copies of this editorial letter in Swanson's civil rights subject file.

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This opinion article from the editors of the Washington Post argues that "too many unauthorized spokesmen have been telling the country what the President thinks about the problems arising out of school desegregation."

On November 2, 1956, the Washington Post published Gregory H. Swanson's response to this editorial article. Swanson collected multiple copies of the response in his civil rights subject file.

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"Congress and Equality" shares news about the American Council of Human Rights. The focus of this issue is the Council's program proposals for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

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This is a clipping of a newspaper editorial from an unknown publication. It supports a recent statement in defense of the U.S. Supreme Court by a group of 100 lawyers.

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This is a newspaper clipping of an article reporting on the development of minature microphones to diagnose heart conditions.

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This is a clipping of an editorial published in an unknown newspaper. It argues that the U.S. President and Department of Justice should do more to protect the rights of Black citizens to vote.

The note "Respond with letter" is handwritten on the clipping.

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These are typescript copies of a letter that Gregory H. Swanson wrote to the editor of the Washington Post. In the letter, Swanson, responding to an earlier editorial titled "Babel", expresses his opininon that President Dwight D. Eisenhower ought to be more open and honest about his positions on racial desegregation.

The Washington Post published the letter on November 2, 1956. Swanson kept multiple copies of the published letter in his civil rights subject file.