Charlottesville School Board papers of A. L. Hench [manuscript], 1939-1948.

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Charlottesville School Board papers of A. L. Hench [manuscript], 1939-1948.

Papers of Hench as Board member and member of various committees, including curriculum, personnel, education facilities for Negroes, and the special committee to investigate conditions at Jefferson High include correspondence, memoranda, meeting dockets and related material. General topics include school budgets, teachers' salaries, Miller School applicants, school activities and programs, war activities and statistics. Specific topics of interest are the opening of Lane High School, 1940; petitioning for equalization of salaries for blacks and whites (contains the signature of Rebecca Fuller McGinness); and teacher-principal conflicts at Jefferson High School, 1945-1946.

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Charlottesville (Va.). School Board

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McGinness, Rebecca Fuller, 1892-2000

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Jefferson High School (Charlottesville, Va.)

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Hench, Atcheson Laughlin, 1891-1974

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Professor of English at the University of Virginia. From the description of Letter of Atcheson Laughlin Hench to Dr. and Mrs. Edward Harper Rynearson [manuscript], 1950 October 26. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647821141 Professor of English at the University of Virginia, 1922-1962. From the description of Oral history interview of Atcheson L. Hench by Ann L.S. Southwell [manuscript], March 15, 1972. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 6...

Miller Manual Labor School (Albemarle County, Va.)

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