Charlottesville (Va.). School Board. Records of the Charlottesville City School Board [manuscript], ca.1869-2006.
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Records of the Charlottesville City School Board [manuscript], ca.1869-2006.
Official records of the Charlottesville City School Board pertain to all aspects of the administration of the city schools. Of great interest are the papers pertaining to the desegregation of the city schools, 1954-1964, which include correspondence, legal documents, petitions from Oliver W. Hill, the school closing order of September 1958, transcripts from the major desegregation cases, applications to the Pupil Placement Board, Southern Regional Council reports, and responses to the Charlottesville crisis by various organizations including the Virginia Council on Human Relations and the NAACP. Correspondents in this section include J. Lindsay Almond, John S. Battle, Sarah-Patton Boyle, Fendall R. Ellis, Oliver Hill, Dowell J. Howard, Thomas J. Michie, J. Harry Michael, Jr., Francis Pickens Miller, Charles E. Moran, John Paul, Booker T. Reaves, F. D. G. Ribble, Thomas B. Stanley, Lindley J. Stiles and George C. Tramontin. There are numerous letters from parents concerning the transfer of their children to integrated schools. Individual items of interest are a 1960 letter from the mother of future Charlottesville coach Garwin DeBerry concerning his transfer from Lane to Burley so he would be allowed to play football and a speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd. Other major topics in the papers include the building of public schools under superintendent James G. Johnson; general education issues including budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, teaching methods, school policies, legal issues, school safety, sex education, annexation, busing and maintaining racial diversity under successive superintendents, George C. Tramontin, Edward R. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Thomas J. McLernon, Vincent C. Cibbarelli, Joseph R. McGeehan and Dorothea Shannon. City councilmen who worked with the school superintendents included Charles L. Barbour, James E. Bowen, Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, the Rev. Alvin Edwards, T. W. Edwards, Francis H. Fife, Bernard J. Haggerty, Cole Hendrix, Lindsay Mount, Nancy O'Brien, Burkett Reynolds, David Toscano, Mitchell Van Yahres, Thomas J. Vandever, G. A. Vogt, and Elizabeth Waters. Facilities management papers contain correspondence of superintendent James G. Johnson regarding land purchases and the construction of McGuffey, Venable, Clark and Lane schools. Correspondents include Edwin A. Alderman, Eugene Bradbury, Charles J. Calrow, Pendleton S. Clark, and John Lloyd Newcomb. Architectural drawings, specifications and contract documents are included. Financial papers include applications for books, 1897-1900; bank statements; check stubs; financial expenditure notebooks and ledgers; invoices; payrolls; receipts for social security, activity, construction and scholarship funds; and reports and audits. There are newsclippings on issues of concern to the public, 1913-1983, including new schools, overcrowding, budgets, racial balance and discrimination, and facilities, as well as an article by Virginius Dabney on cheating. Miscellaneous topics of interest include personnel policies; files on principal Carrie Burnely; the Head Start program; Jefferson, Jackson P. Burley, McGuffey, Midway, Lane and Charlottesville High schools; school poems and songs; math teacher Hunter Haswell Walker; teacher lesson plans; salaries; and a war bond drive. The collection also contains minutes of the school Board, 1879-1905; annual school reports; principals term and monthly reports; fire drill reports; lunch meal programs and menus; census records; class schedules; student record books; teacher record books and grade cards and sheets; trophies; and tapes of School Board meetings. Of interest is the original deed of gift from the Freedmen's Bureau, 1869, transferring the Delevan building to the city, together with deeds for other land purchases by the city for school use.
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