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School integration -- Virginia

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Inventory of the Papers of Armistead Mason Dobie

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-78-2
Abstract

Professional and judicial papers (1902-1965) that include court material files for Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County. Also correspondence, speeches, drafts of briefs, dockets, notebooks.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1902 (1939-1956) 1965

Jackson P. Burley High School flag

 Collection — Tube_box 1: [Barcode: X006178637]
Identifier: MSS 16834
Content Description This collection contains a commemorative flag of Jackson P. Burley High School colors retirement ceremony. The flag is 5' x 8' in size, made in 2023, of polyester in Kelly green and gold flag with the Jackson P. Burley High School Bears insignia. Below the school's name reads "1951-1967".Burley was the Black high school during segregation in Charlottesville. Located on Rose Hill Drive, it opened in 1951 to serve students from the City of Charlottesville and Albemarle County....
Dates: 2023

Papers of Frederick D. G. Ribble

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-77-1
Abstract

Academic and professional papers (1920-1965) that primarily document Ribble's tenure as professor and dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. Also valuable documents on civil rights and related subjects. Extensive files on the Prince Edward Free School Association in Prince Edward County, VA, materials on literacy tests, law enforcement and civil unrest, the role of lawyers, freedom of speech and association, school integration, the Fred Wallace case and the Gray Commission.

Dates: 1920-1965