Papers of James Lawrence Blair Buck [manuscript] / compiled by Buck as president of the Virginia Committee for Public Schools, 1931 [1958-60].

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Papers of James Lawrence Blair Buck [manuscript] / compiled by Buck as president of the Virginia Committee for Public Schools, 1931 [1958-60].

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The collection records the Committee's efforts to fight massive resistance, support the Perrow commission's freedom of choice plan and keep open the public schools. It contains by-laws, minutes, correspondence of the state steering committee and the local committees, financial records, a few legal papers, speeches and articles. Copies of 1959 bills on education, the report of the Perrow commission and articles on the history of the committee by William Marion Lightsey, its executive secretary, are included. With these papers is an article, 1931, "Gravel in the shoe, or 'I know the Negro'" by Buck and clippings and articles on desegregated education accumulated by Buck in the 1950s as coordinator of teacher education for the Virginia State Department of Education. In this group are papers on the Prince Edward Co. segregation case and the 1955 Gray commission on education. Other organizations represented in the collection are the Virginia Society for the Preservation of Public Education, the Virginia Council on Human Relations, The Southern Regional Council, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties. The collection includes correspondence or speeches by James Lindsay Almond, Eugene Tucker Carlton, John Stewart Battle, Virginius Dabney, Theodore Roosevelt Dalton, Colgate Whitehead Darden, Robert Douthat Meade, Francis Pickens Miller, Mosby Garland Perrow, Lorin Andrew Thompson, James McIlhany Thomson & Robert Whitehead.

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National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

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Dabney, Virginius, 1901-1995

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Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties

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The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties was chartered in 1954 to prevent the desegregation of Virginia's public schools. It was the most powerful segregationist organization in Virginia and proved instrumental in the passage of the Massive Resistance laws enacted by the General Assembly in 1956. From the guide to the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties Records, 1956-1963, (Library of Virginia) ...

Virginia Committee for Public Schools.

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Buck, J. L. Blair (James Lawrence Blair), 1886-1967

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Thompson, Lorin A. 1902-....

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Whitehead, Robert, 1897-1960.

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Member of the Virginia House of Delegates representing Amherst and Nelson Counties, 1942-1960. From the description of Papers of Robert Whitehead [manuscript], 1932-1960. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647983675 Member of the Virginia House of Delegates for Amherst and Nelson Counties. From the description of Papers of Robert Whitehead, 1958-1960. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 61395412 From the description of Robert Whitehe...

Perrow, Mosby Garland, 1909-

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Lynchburg, Va., state senator and chairman of the Virginia School "Perrow" Commission to study school desegregation. From the description of Papers of Mosby Garland Perrow [manuscript], 1863-1962 (bulk 1940-1962). (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647830788 ...

Dalton, Ted, 1901-1989

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Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Va., the son of Currell and Lodoska Martin. He received his B.A. from the College of William and Mary as well as his law degree. Dalton was Commonwealth's Attorney for Radford, Va. and state senator from 1944-1960. He was the Republican Party candidate for governor in 1953 and 1957. Dalton was appointed federal judge for the Western district of Virginia. His adopted son was John N. Dalton who served as governor of Virginia. Ted Da...

Miller, Francis Pickens, 1895-1978

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Government official. From the description of Papers of Francis Pickens Miller [manuscript], 1885-1976. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647825652 ...

Battle, John Stewart, 1890-1972

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Virginia governor. From the description of Letter : Richmond, Va., to McDaniel Lewis, 1952 December 9. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 30793530 ...

Southern Regional Council

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The Help Our Public Education (HOPE) project was established in 1958 by a group of community leaders and concerned citizens to disseminate information regarding school integration in Georgia. After the Supreme Court's school desegregation decision of 1954, HOPE anticipated that many of Georgia's public schools would close, because the state would refuse to comply. HOPE believed an informed public would take the necessary action through elected representatives to keep Georgia's public schools ope...

Meade, Robert Douthat, 1903-1974

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Robert D. Meade, WWU faculty member, 1965-1993; BA Indiana University, MA, PhD University of Pennsylvania; Professor Emeritus of Psychology, Western Washington University. From the description of Robert D. Meade collection, 1967. (Western Washington University). WorldCat record id: 55950730 ...

Virginia Society for the Preservation of Public Education.

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Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986

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Lawyer, of Roanoke and Richmond, Va.; Roanoke City Hustings Court judge; member, U.S. House of Representatives, 1945-1948; Attorney General of Virginia, 1948-1957; Governor of Virginia, 1959-1962; judge, U.S. Court of Customs and Patent Appeals, 1963-1986. From the description of Papers, 1850-1987. (Virginia Historical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 33953204 Theodore Roosevelt Dalton was born 3 July 1901 in Carroll County, Virginia, the son of Currell and Lodoska Mari...

Carlton, Eugene Tucker, 1900-

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Virginia Council on Human Relations

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The Virginia Council on Human Relations was a private organization formed to encourage better race relations. There were chapters in various localities and its headquarters was in Richmond. From the description of Papers, 1960-1966. (College of William & Mary). WorldCat record id: 23250141 From the guide to the Virginia Council on Human Relations Papers, 1960-1966., (Special Collections, Earl Gregg Swem Library, College of William and Mary) ...

Darden, Colgate W. (Colgate Whitehead), 1897-1981

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President of the University of Virginia, 1947-1959; former Governor of Virginia; Lawyer; Farmer; Teacher; Businessman; United States House of Representatives; member of the United States Delegation to the U.N. during the Eisenhower Administration. From the description of Oral history interview of Colgate W. Darden by Ann L. S. Southwell and Michael F. Plunkett [manuscript], [1972?]. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647920804 University of Virginia president, Gov...

Thomson, James McIlhany, 1924-

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Lightsey, William Marion.

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