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Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports"],"userestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"userestrict_heading_ssm":["Use Restrictions"],"userestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. 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Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. 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Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.","One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].","This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)","Deed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.","Parcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board","Deed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.","Deed of purchase for land described as 214 5 th Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.","The City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School","Reports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools","Includes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools","Includes FICA contributions","Very bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..","There are monthly attendance records.","McGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.","There is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)","List of menus served each day of the week for the school year","There is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria","Class schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.","Enrollment and teacher roster","(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)","Contains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.","These are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.","Includes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill","Includes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports","Including 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929","Includes Teacher's Monthly Reports","Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.","","English"],"unitid_tesim":["14210"],"normalized_title_ssm":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_title_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"collection_ssim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board 1869-2006"],"repository_ssm":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"repository_ssim":["University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept."],"creator_ssm":[""],"creator_ssim":[""],"acqinfo_ssim":["The Charlottesville City School Board loaned the collection to the University of Virginia Library on December 20, 2007."],"has_online_content_ssim":["false"],"accessrestrict_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eBoxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools.\u003c/p\u003e"],"accessrestrict_heading_ssm":["Access Restrictions"],"accessrestrict_tesim":["Boxes 38-45 are restricted. Charlottesville City Schools staff may access with written permission of chair of the City School Board or the Superintendent of City Schools."],"arrangement_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThe collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records.\u003c/p\u003e"],"arrangement_heading_ssm":["Arrangement"],"arrangement_tesim":["The collection is organized into ten series and is mostly arranged in chronological\n order. Series I on Desegregation is divided into two subseries: A. Correspondence\n and B. Court cases. Series II is General desegregation, which includes plans,\n minutes, news clippings, information about organizations, reports, interview notes,\n speeches, and statements, all arranged by topic. Series III is Correspondence and\n has two subseries: A. Legal correspondence and B. Correspondence with City Council,\n and the correspondence of the school superintendents. Series IV is Facilities\n Management and has two subseries: A. Correspondence and B. Specifications. Series V\n is financial information. Series VI is minutes of the School Board from 1879 to\n 1898, Series VII contains news clippings, Series VIII is miscellaneous information\n about principals, teachers, and schools, Series IX is photographs, and Series X has\n deeds, reports, and records."],"bioghist_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eOne of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAs the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001].\u003c/p\u003e"],"bioghist_heading_ssm":["Biographical/Historical Information"],"bioghist_tesim":["One of the first public schools in Charlottesville dates back to [1881] and was named\n \"Midway Grammar and High School\" or Primary School, and was the school for white\n children. It was also referred to as Lane or Charlottesville School (although a high\n school was built in 1940 which was also named Lane after Principal James Walker\n Lane). Midway was located on the east end of Main Street and originally provided\n education for elementary, middle and high school students. There was a school for\n \"Negroes\" which was the \"Jefferson Graded School\" and was located in the Delevan\n Hotel building on 632 Main Street in 1865. It was later moved to Brown and Fifth\n Street Northwest [1926] near the western edge of the Vinegar Hill neighborhood. New\n schools were soon constructed, McGuffey Elementary in 1916 located on Second Street;\n Venable Elementary was built on Fourteenth Street in 1922; George Rogers Clark\n Elementary School was built in Belmont in 1930; and Lane High School was built on\n Preston Avenue and McIntire Road in 1940. These schools were built under the careful\n scrutiny of James G. Johnson, who was the Superintendent of Schools from1909 to 1946\n and knew every detail of the construction. According to his correspondence,\n overseeing the construction on a weekly if not a daily basis caused him many\n sleepless nights and exhausted him physically and mentally.","Fendall R. Ellis was the next school superintendent from 1947 to 1964 and had the\n difficult task of trying to keep the schools open during desegregation. He was\n included in the lawsuits in all three of the important court cases in\n Charlottesville and worked closely with the attorney for the School Board, John S.\n Battle, Jr. Ellis tried to mediate between massive resisters and the National\n Association for the Advancement of Colored People in order to keep the schools open\n during desegregation.","As the number of school buildings multiplied and the issue of desegregation gained\n acceptance, the next school superintendents wrestled with more general issues in\n education, such as budgets, overcrowding, quality of education, new methods of\n teaching, the safety of students, busing, sex education in schools, and maintaining\n diversity in all of the Charlottesville City Schools. These school superintendents\n were George C. Tramontin from 1963 to 1966; Edward R. Rushton from 1967 to 1972;\n William J. Ellena from 1973 to 1981; Thomas J. McLernon from 1981 to 1982; Vincent\n C. Cibbarelli from 1982 to 1989; Joseph R. McGeehan from 1990 to 1995, and Dorothea\n Shannon [1996-2001]."],"prefercite_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eRecords of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.\u003c/p\u003e"],"prefercite_tesim":["Records of the Charlottesville School Board, 1869-2006, #14210, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va."],"scopecontent_html_tesm":["\u003cp\u003eThis collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFollowing the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e, and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eLittle Rock Arkansas Gazette\u003c/title\u003e, suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eHill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGovernor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCity Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDavis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEllis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eColonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Augusta\n Courier\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePresident Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAttorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAfter denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePaul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eGloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReprinted from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Richmond News\n Leader\u003c/title\u003e\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJudge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJohn S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eComplainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBattle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eS. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eFendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMarvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are mostly from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily\n Progress\u003c/title\u003e and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles are from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOne broadside with two articles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Lynchburg\n News\u003c/title\u003e, one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNotes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eApplications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSouthern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eRace and Reason: A Yankee View\u003c/title\u003e.\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReport on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSenator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSuperintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026amp; Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026amp; Hartson.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026amp;\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLetter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe McGuffey Reader\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIV Number 9\n and \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Sentinel\u003c/title\u003e vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eProposals and resolution to pave Main Street\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eElizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026amp; Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026amp; Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSome of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAmerican Blower Company detail of a fan\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026amp; Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026amp;\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company and the School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons,\n Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026amp;\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026amp; Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026amp; Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026amp; Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026amp; Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, Lacy \u0026amp; Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026amp; Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026amp; Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026amp;\n Company, Hall \u0026amp; Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026amp; Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026amp; Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026amp; Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026amp; Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026amp; Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026amp; Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026amp;\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026amp; Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026amp; Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026amp; Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026amp; Sons, Failes \u0026amp; Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026amp; Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026amp; Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026amp;\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026amp; Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026amp; Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCertificates for payment\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026amp; Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026amp; Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026amp; Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCorrespondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026amp; Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026amp;\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. Restricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are travel reimbursements and insurance information. Restricted\n due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEmployee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eRestricted due to social security numbers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are standardized receipts for school payments.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eincludes reimbursements for principals\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOther minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePhotocopy from an article in the \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eJeffersonian\n Republican\u003c/title\u003e printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eBound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eNews clippings from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e\n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. (\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eThe Daily Progress\u003c/title\u003e)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMain topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIn addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTopics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAlso includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eArticles from \u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"italic\" href=\"\"\u003eScience and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan\u003c/title\u003e on teaching and\n the condition of the education system\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAudit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eSchool song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are miscellaneous songs and poems\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluded are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eJames Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eCharlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eAgreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eOpinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePurchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eResolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003ePreston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eTitle of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eLand purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. Gable, B. G. and\n Kathleen Payne, F. L. and Mary W. Watson, D. W. and Willie May\n Godwin, B. S. and Bettie J. Young, Nannie Blake and G. G. Jones,\n Lloyd M. and Annie L. Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. L. and Mandolin V. Payne to the\n Charlottesville School Board [for Clark School] Also included are\n title abstracts for lots which were a part of a large tract of land\n owned by the Belmont Land Company prior to 1890. (Need\n flattening)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land on the corner of Commerce and Fourth Street\n N. W. sold to the School Board for five hundred dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eParcel of land on Commerce Street verified to be owned by Albert\n Brooks, free of any liens and clear for purchase by the\n Charlottesville School Board\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of Purchase for land situated on 411 Commerce Street sold to the\n Charlottesville School Board for a sum of one thousand and one\n hundred and fifty dollars.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eDeed of purchase for land described as 214 5\u003ctitle type=\"simple\" render=\"super\" href=\"\"\u003eth\u003c/title\u003e Street N. W. and Brown Street from the Beck's Family\n to the Charlottesville School Board for a sum of two thousand\n dollars, and twenty five hundred dollars from the Barbour Family for\n additions to Jefferson School.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe City of Charlottesville acquired the property by condemnation for\n addition to the Jefferson School\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eReports are from Buford, Burnley-Moran, George Rogers Clark,\n Greenbrier, Jackson-Via, Jefferson, Johnson, Lane, McGuffey,Venable\n and Walker. Principal's Term Reports are included. For some other\n years they are separate.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in elementary\n schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes enrollment figures for boys and girls in schools\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes FICA contributions\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eVery bad condition; water damaged, need flattening/cleaning etc..\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere are monthly attendance records.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eMcGuffey School applications for reimbursement of the Virginia Lunch\n Program and Special Milk Program; cafeteria reports and inventory;\n daily record of operations; state inspection reports; and memos\n about additional allocation of funds and other information about\n lunches. There is also information about personnel policies for\n cafeteria staff.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a notice from the Monticello Dairy Inc. about milk price\n increases due to the drought (September 27, 1958)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eList of menus served each day of the week for the school year\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThere is a list of students who are eligible for free meals from\n Clark, Venable, and Johnson (and the costs per lunch) at the\n McGuffey Cafeteria\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eClass schedules contain student information such as birthdates, names\n of parents, home address and class schedule with teacher names.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEnrollment and teacher roster\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003e(Notebooks of student grades for the last year of school, and any\n higher education and name and address of parents.)\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eContains class rolls, grades and attendance records for students. In\n the 1920's and 1930's there were separate classes for boys and\n girls.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThese are arranged by year and by teacher. They include the schools,\n Midway Grammar and High School (Lane), McGuffey Elementary, Venable\n Elementary, George Rogers Clark Elementary, Jackson P. Burley,\n Buford, and Walker schools but not all of these schools can be found\n in every folder.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 1925-1926 Report Cards from [Dama] Hill\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes 9 Teacher's Inspection Reports\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncluding 8 Classification of Pupil Forms from 1929\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eIncludes Teacher's Monthly Reports\u003c/p\u003e"],"scopecontent_heading_ssm":["Scope and Content"],"scopecontent_tesim":["This collection consists of the official records of the Charlottesville School Board\n from 1869 to 2006, including information about events that occurred during the\n desegregation of the schools in Charlottesville, Virginia from 1954 to 1964. There\n is extensive correspondence, as well as legal documents, petitions from Oliver W.\n Hill to end segregation, an order from the Governor of Virginia to close the schools\n (1958 September), a report by Booker T. Reaves on the attitudes regarding\n desegregation, and transcripts of the major desegregation cases in Charlottesville:\n Doris Marie Allen et al., v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of Charlottesville School\n Board, (1956 July 12), Caroline M. Dodson v. Fendall R. Ellis and the City of\n Charlottesville School Board, (1961 April 14), and Doris Dillard v. Fendall R. Ellis\n and the City of Charlottesville School Board, (1962 September 17).","Correspondents include Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr., Governor Thomas B.\n Stanley, Superintendent of Schools Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John S.\n Battle, Jr., Oliver W. Hill, James Harry Michael, Jr., Thomas J. Michie, Booker T.\n Reaves, Charles E. Moran, Judge John Paul, and Sarah Patton Boyle. (Series I\n Desegregation correspondence and court cases)","There are also desegregation plans, news clippings, a report by Paul Gaston and\n Thomas Hammond, and speeches by John S. Battle, Jr., and Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr.\n (Series II General Desegregation)","The rest of the collection relates to general school issues facing the School Board\n and the City of Charlottesville. The superintendents of the schools worked closely\n with the City Council and their correspondence is represented in this collection.\n Correspondents include Bernard J. Haggerty, Lindsay Mount, Burkett Reynolds, G. A.\n Vogt, Mitchell Van Yahres, Francis H. Fife, Charles L. Barbour, Nancy O'Brien,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Frank L. Buck, Elizabeth \"Bitsy\" Waters, Alvin Edwards, Thomas\n J. Vandever, James E. Bowen, T. W. Edwards, Cole Hendrix, and David J. Toscano.","There is also correspondence between the superintendent of schools and legal counsel\n (James Harry Michael, Jr.) about general advice and legal updates for the School\n Board from 1923-1995. (Series III Correspondence)","There is detailed information about facilities management and the construction of\n Charlottesville schools including architectural drawings (from 1913-1940) in\n the correspondence of Superintendent of Schools, James G. Johnson and architects,\n Charles J. Calrow and Pendleton Scott Clark. The correspondence mentions that some\n of the Charlottesville contractors were upset that bids on the construction work was\n awarded to out of town businesses. (Series IV)","The schools mentioned in this collection are Midway Grammar and High (1895-?),\n Jefferson (1869-1958), McGuffey Elementary (1916-1973), Venable\n Elementary (1925-present), George Rogers Clark Elementary (1930-present), Lane High\n (1940-1973), Jackson P. Burley Middle (1949-present), Johnson Elementary\n (1954-present), Walker Upper Elementary (1966-present), Jackson-Via Elementary\n (1966-present), Burnley-Moran Elementary (1954-present), Greenbrier Elementary\n (1962-present), Buford Middle (1966-present), and Charlottesville High School\n (1974-present).","There are also School Board minutes from 1879, and 1896-1898 in a bound\n volume. (Series VI). Other minutes of the School Board are related to general topics\n and are filed with correspondence in Series I Desegregation correspondence, Series\n II General desegregation, Series III Correspondence and Series IV Facilities\n Management correspondence.","There is miscellaneous information about principals, schools, and teachers (including\n war bonds for teachers), financial information including bank statements,\n expenditures, and payroll information, news clippings, and photographs. There are\n also deeds, reports, and records with information about land purchases, annual\n reports, fire drills, lunch menus, census and enrollment records, and teacher record\n books with student grades and attendance records. There are also reel to reel tapes\n of School Board meetings, trophies, printing blocks, and a school banner. The\n collection contains approximately 16,500 items, 167 hollinger boxes, 6 cubic boxes\n and 76.5 linear feet.","Following the Court decision of Brown v. Board of Education, Attorney\n General Almond advised that the schools follow their current\n procedures regarding segregation until a final decree was made by\n the courts.","Mr. Howard requested that the Superintendents cooperate fully with\n Governor Thomas B. Stanley's order to operate the schools on the\n basis of segregation. Attached to his letter is census information\n for schools in Virginia in the 1950's.","The School Board Resolution (which is included here) states that it\n will maintain the public school system, take cautions with the\n elimination of compulsory school attendance, stay flexible, and\n encourage people with different views to be able to work together.\n There is also an article from The Daily\n Progress about the Resolution and a letter from Dr.\n Ellis.","Dr. Ellis wrote to the School Board regarding an article (that is not\n present) on \"Segregation in the Schools\" by John T. Fey, Dean of the\n Law School at George Washington University. James Harry Michael, Jr.\n recommended that each member read it.","Ellis thanked Wallenborn for sending him an article about a brief\n filed with the U. S. Supreme Court by the State of North Carolina\n and a desegregation plan. (The article is present.)","Dr. Ellis thanked Dr. Stiles for writing to R. Stanley Goodman\n complimenting the Charlottesville City Board of Education on their\n resolution regarding the problem of segregation. The letter from\n Lindley J. Stiles to R. Stanley Goodman is included.","Comments include [they would be] \"perfectly willing to abolish the\n present public school system\" rather than \"see mixed schools in\n Virginia;\" \"The negro is a pure jungle product;\" \"white children\n attend school during one part of the day and the Negro children\n attend during the other part of the day;\" \"Isenhower [sic] is a\n rabid integrationist, has entirely desegrated [sic] the armed forces\n of this nation.\" There are also news clippings about the abolishment\n of schools in Mississippi. Superintendent Ellis responded with a\n simple acknowledgement of their position.","One letter is from a parent who supported integration and wanted to\n keep the schools open. Another is from parents who wanted their\n child to attend an integrated school and planned to send the child\n away to a more progressive school unless Charlottesville embraced\n integration in the schools. Dr. Ellis responded to each letter.","Ellis and Howard wrote to the School Board and Division\n Superintendents about the Supreme Court's opinion of May 31 which\n stated that \"racial discrimination in public education is\n unconstitutional\" but must be dealt with on a local level.","The letters discuss the policy statement from the Governor which said\n that the decision of the United States Supreme Court created\n problems and would need appropriate legislation to support its\n views.","Oliver W. Hill's petition requests that the School Board voluntarily\n desegregate the schools for the 1956-1957 school term.","Dr. Ellis informed them of a meeting to discuss an analysis of Brown\n v. Board written by [James Harry] Michael. There is a list of\n questions from the Committee of the Whole and a copy of the\n analysis.","Ellis wrote to the School Board about a telegram from the placement\n board which ordered that the \"local school boards and division\n superintendents are divested of all such powers\" in the placement of\n pupils.","Hill wrote that he was waiting for a response to his petition (see\n 1:11) Dr. Ellis responded that \"no action has been taken in this\n matter…\" Also included is a letter from Ellis to the School\n Board and an excerpt from the School Board minutes.","Dr. Ellis wrote that the School Board would be meeting with Attorney\n General Almond concerning the law suit. Governor Stanley issued a\n statement announcing that he would request the Chairman of the\n Commission on Public Education to call the Executive Committee of\n the Commission into session.","Dr. Ellis wrote that he would send John Battle all of his\n correspondence with Oliver W. Hill. The petition has handwritten\n notes (possibly notes on the employment of the parents of the\n children in the petition.)","The study (was prepared by Booker T. Reaves when he was a student in\n Professor Lambert Molyneaux's class on Race Relations in the\n Department of Sociology at the University of Virginia.)","Dr. Ellis sent a copy of the Summons to the editor of The Daily Progress , and letters to the\n School Board about meeting with John S. Battle to prepare an answer\n to the case. The Summons is included (June 1, 1956).","Dr. Ellis proposed that they meet to discuss the Civil Action Case\n which was scheduled to go to the Federal District Court on July\n 12 th .","Charles \"Chic\" E. Moran offered the services of the Virginia Council\n on Human Relations to bring in consultants to help the city\n successfully meet the problems of integration.","Dr. Ellis gave instructions to all teachers and school personnel to\n refrain from commenting about the lawsuit and the \"serious problem\n confronting us.\"","Dr. Ellis asked Vincent Shea if the City of Charlottesville was\n eligible for any federal funds for elementary and secondary\n education.","Dr. Ellis sent Dean Ribble a brief statement that Ellis had prepared\n on his interpretations of \"Meaning and Implications of 'Deliberate\n Speed.\" Ellis suggested that desegregation begin with one grade a\n year.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in one of his letters, \"Judge Paul's\n favorable decision is a source of great encouragement to us all.\"\n (August 26, 1960)","The article, \"Order to Integrate In Virginia Upheld\" from the Little Rock Arkansas Gazette , suggested\n that the state did not have to follow the Supreme Court ruling of\n May 17, 1954. There is also a letter from Fendall R. Ellis to the\n School Board members with the text of the Fourth Circuit Court's\n ruling that they must put an end to segregation in the schools.","Attorney General James Lindsay Almond Jr. requested school officials\n to send any information regarding petitions filed by the NAACP to\n Mark R. Hawes, the Chief Counsel of the Florida Legislative\n Investigation Committee, who was investigating the NAACP.","Superintendent Ellis sent Attorney General James Lindsay Almond, Jr.\n a resolution to retain the Honorable John S. Battle, Jr. to serve as\n their counsel and to also request the legal services of the Office\n of the Attorney General.","Dr. Ellis asked if they could postpone the meeting.","Attached are lists of Jefferson School Patrons who helped with the\n School Bond Election","Judge Paul ruled that no children would be denied entrance to a\n school because a parent failed to apply for a pupil assignment with\n the pupil placement board. He also ruled that the pupil placement\n board would act only as a guide for school officials and would not\n be an enforcement agency. There is also a press release statement\n about the decree.","Dr. Wright, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare cited the\n violence in Little Rock, Arkansas as an example of what could happen\n if there was no leadership in following the laws.","Correspondents include Senator Theodore \"Ted\" Roosevelt Dalton and\n the Venable Faculty Committee.","The petition requests admittance for certain students in the public\n schools of the city by September 1958 without regard to their race\n or color.","Superintendent Ellis informed them of special meetings with John S.\n Battle, Jr.","Dorothy Owen sent the results of a poll from the parents of Venable\n School pupils to the School Board. One hundred and seventy seven\n parents wanted some measure of integration and one hundred and\n twenty eight preferred that Venable School be closed.","Mr. and Mrs James P. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Dulaney, Mr. and\n Mrs. R. G. Faulconer, and Mrs. Harold M. Burrows requested a list of\n the names and addresses of the parents of Venable School pupils for\n the use of a poll [inquiring about desegregation and the closing of\n Venable School.","Mr. Hill requested a copy of the resolution (which is present) that\n designated six geographic areas for school districts and interviews\n and testing.","Mr. Jarman, president of the Lane PTA wrote that it would be better\n if they did not send a questionnaire \"at this time.\"","Superintendent Ellis congratulated Hill on his statement to the press\n regarding the school situation.","Hill requested that Carol Williams and Sylvia Delorus Morton be\n admitted to public schools regardless of their race or color. He\n also wrote Ellis that they were studying the validity of the \"Battle\n Plan\" and had advised their clients not to appear for personal\n interviews.","Parents requested admission of their children to public schools\n without regard to race or color.","Superintendent Ellis sent Superintendent Brewbaker a copy of the\n resolution (desegregation plan see 1:38). There are also minutes\n from the School Board meeting of July 8, 1958, a description of the\n Charlottesville School Districts, a letter thanking Gregg for maps\n of the school districts.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he was afraid that if they\n desegregated, the schools would be closed.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to the School Board that there was no\n change in the status of the segregation case and informed them of\n the schedule for testing and interviewing the applicants.","Ellis wrote that it might be better to handwrite the notes during the\n interviews using shorthand as opposed to using recordings. He wrote\n that recordings might look like \"the trappings of a Congressional\n investigation\" and also that the Judge might \"look with some\n skepticism on this technique.\"","Governor Almond issued a statement explaining that no child could be\n excluded from school on a racial basis due to the Supreme Court\n ruling but no one had the authority to force a child to attend an\n integrated school.","Dr. Ellis wrote, \"I want to tell you how gratified I am that you are\n serving as the head of the city government during this difficult\n period.\"","The Governor wrote \"Under compulsion of an order issued by the United\n States District Court for the Western District of Virginia, both\n white and colored children have been enrolled effective September\n 22, 1958 in Lane High School and Venable Elementary School. Pursuant\n to the provisions of Chapter 9.1, Title 22, of the Code of Virginia,\n the above-named schools are closed…\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote about the resolution that parents should\n make private arrangements for education, and that teacher contracts\n would not be jeopardized by the closed schools.","The letters are to the School Board and teachers at Venable and Lane,\n and to R. Stanley Goodman explaining that teachers were not\n permitted to teach in private segregated classrooms using state\n funds, according to the Judge's ruling.","Mr. Battle advised Superintendent Ellis that R. Stanley Goodman and\n Dr. Ellis needed to sign the appeal bond before a notary public.","Superintendent Ellis wrote in confidence about the 1870 Act of\n Congress which stipulated that the General Assembly had to maintain\n public schools in the state.","Superintendent Ellis wrote about using and cleaning the Youth\n Building.","City Manager, James E. Bowen recommended that watchmen be placed on\n duty until the school crisis was over and Ellis responded that\n watchman were being placed at Lane, Venable and Burley at all times\n when the schools were closed.","Davis Y. Paschell, Superintendent of Public Instruction approved the\n request and wrote that the Governor had allowed permission for\n sports in other closed schools in Norfolk and Warren County.","Superintendent Ellis sent Mr. Battle a copy of an article which\n suggested that the Fourteenth Amendment was never passed.","Included is Arthur Fleming's statement about the serious\n disadvantages of children being without schools. Both Baxter and\n Fleming were officials with the Department of Health, Education and\n Welfare.","Mr. Battle advised that since they had lost all of their appeals,\n they had to allow \"Negro\" students admission into Venable and Lane\n schools. The School Board was given the authority to open the\n schools and Ellis received praise for their re-opening.","Superintendent Ellis wrote that he felt that the school situation was\n \"moving toward a reasonable solution.\"","The Attorney General wrote to the Commonwealth's Attorney (for\n Wytheville, Virginia) that there were currently no enforceable laws\n for compulsory attendance.","The letter describes map boundaries between Venable and Jefferson\n School and overcrowding of schools but the actual map is not\n present.","Superintendent Ellis wrote to Governor Almond congratulating him for\n his \"outstanding leadership\" in the \"school crisis.\" Governor Almond\n responded that \"the road ahead is most difficult.\" He also wrote\n that he felt that efforts were being made to \"abolish public\n education in Virginia.\"","Battle invited Dr. Ellis to attend the National Conference of Public\n School Officials and the United States Commission on Civil Rights in\n Nashville but Dr. Ellis was not able to attend.","Dr. Ellis mentioned his gratitude for their meetings with \"Negro\"\n citizens and their work in \"ameliorating the school problem and in\n improving race relations.\"","Colonel Miller wrote an essay \"Rough Notes on Some Events in\n Charlottesville, Virginia (1957-1959)\" which is included, and\n describes a group of local businessmen and University of Virginia\n leaders who made a statement of acceptance for desegregation with\n over twelve hundred signatures (published in The Daily Progress on January 31, 1959.) Pickens\n invited John S. Battle, Jr. but he responded that he \"would have\n nothing to do with it.\" \"…he was tired of the whole\n business.\"","Ellis asked principals to send him any information on pupils who\n should be transferred.","Dr. Ellis was concerned that there would be a lot of requests for\n transfers and he was trying to maintain peace between the racial\n extremists and the NAACP.","\"School Assignments of Certain Negro Pupils for Session\n 1959-1960.\" Individuals that were named in the court case are\n listed along with the school they were attending in the next\n session.","Colonel Miller and Dr. Ellis wanted parents to accept school\n assignments because they were concerned that transfers would upset\n racial extremists. Colonel Miller asked Randolph White to write an\n editorial stating that the assignments would be made according to\n Judge John Paul's Order.","Sarah Patton Boyle wrote to Ellis and Battle informing them that the\n NAACP was a moderate law abiding organization compared to \"real\n radicals and trouble makers among Negroes\" without leadership. There\n is a also a copy of The Augusta\n Courier","The letter has instructions for submitting a bill for teachers'\n salaries to the Commonwealth during the period September 1958\n through January 1959.","Dr. Woodson, Division Superintendent of the Fairfax County School\n Board thanked Dr. Ellis for his help with desegregation in the\n Fairfax schools.","Dr. Ellis sent enrollment figures for the first day of school\n compared with the last sessions and a report on pupil progress. The\n statistics and enrollment information are not included.","President Williams criticized Ellis for not instituting desegregation\n and not following the plan laid out by the U. S. Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit. Ellis responded that the School Board would\n assign pupils according to the desegregation plan. There is also a\n handwritten note that Mr. Williams \"might not have brought suit if a\n Negro had been appointed to School Board.\"","Superintendent Ellis sent Hill information on pupil assignments for\n students named in the lawsuit. He also sent names of students that\n the School Board had approved for transfers.","Judge John Paul requested Superintendent Ellis to send the academic\n data for Gloria Hamilton, a \" Negro\" applicant for transfer to Lane\n High School. Superintendent Ellis indicated that she would struggle\n in eighth grade at Lane.","Mrs. DeBerry wanted her son, Garwin DeBerry to transfer to Burley\n because he was not allowed to play athletics at Lane and it was his\n intention to make athletics his \"life career.\" [Garwin DeBerry\n became the head football coach at Charlottesville High School for\n twenty eight years from 1980 to 2007 following Tommy Theodose. He\n led the Charlottesville Black Knights into victory, winning multiple\n Jefferson District titles.]","The court reporter of the United States District Court Western\n District of Virginia, Mary Bidle, wrote to Superintendent Ellis that\n the transcript was finished and that she hoped that \"as the years go\n by your problems will vanish.\"","Superintendent Ellis wrote that the weather made it impossible for\n him to attend.","Dr. Ellis asked John S. Battle if the schools should take any action\n regarding the regulations issued by the State Board of Education and\n Battle responded that they should wait until they have heard the\n decision from the United States Court for the Fourth Circuit.","The Court affirmed the ruling of the District Court saying that the\n School Board was taking steps to end discriminatory practices.","Dr. Ellis sought Mr. Battle's advice on the wording of the\n application forms for pupil assignments in the elementary\n schools.","Dr. Ellis interviewed the parents of the forty four \"Negro\" children\n living outside of the Jefferson School District and assigned them to\n the schools of the parent's choice. Twelve children were assigned to\n Venable High School and thirty two were assigned to Jefferson School\n for the school year 1961-1962.","Dr. Ellis responded that he looked forward to meeting her to discuss\n the enrollment of her daughter. Later he wrote that she could attend\n Jackson P. Burley High School. (June 19, 1962)","John Battle made his arguments to Judge Paul and wrote that the Judge\n \"has now a reasonably sympathetic attitude towards our\n endeavors.\"","Dr. Ellis responded that there were five hundred and twenty five\n \"white\" pupils and twenty \"Negro\" pupils at Venable and nine hundred\n and ninety \"white\" pupils and fifteen \"Negro\" pupils at Lane. Dr.\n Ellis explained that the decision from the Circuit Court of Appeals\n might change some of the figures. A questionnaire is mentioned but\n not present.","Dr. Ellis asked Dr. Thomas, Principal of Francis W. Parker School\n about the percentage of students that were \"Negro.\"","Attorney John S. Battle, Jr. recommended that they hold off on\n implementing a compulsory school attendance resolution until after\n the hearings.","S. W. Tucker filed a Motion to Intervene for students that he wanted\n to add to the lawsuit. Judge Paul ruled that no action be taken\n because there was no point in transferring students during the\n school year.","Dr. Ellis wrote to her parents that she could attend Jackson P.\n Burley High School in the 1962-1963 school sessions. In\n November 1961 Vernetta Lewis had written to her teacher, \"I don't\n like Lane and nothing about it. I don't feel that I belong here.\n Maybe I don't.\" She also mentioned that the boy that sat in front of\n her was calling her names and kicking her.","Battle described the plaintiff's motion (which was overruled) as a\n \"back door effort\" to have \"Negro\" children placed in Lane for the\n 1962-1963 session.\" Battle recommended that the School Board\n stay firm on using academic criteria but transfer the Woodfolk twins\n into Lane to appease the Court.","Mrs. Morrison, a client of S. W. Tucker wrote, \"I want my child to\n attend a desegregated school as she is entitle [sic] to do under the\n Constitution.\" Dr. Ellis denied the request because the Court had\n ruled that pupils must attend the elementary school that was in\n their district. The ruling was under appeal and on October 22, Dr.\n Ellis wrote that since the Court did change its ruling, her daughter\n could attend Venable School.","After denying the request, Dr. Ellis wrote that since the Court did\n change its ruling, their daughter, Rosalind could attend Johnson\n School.","After first denying the request, Dr. Ellis gave permission for his\n son to attend Venable since the Court decision was made to allow\n transfers.","There is a list of nine children who expressed a desire to attend\n Lane High School.","Dr. Ellis wrote to Mr. and Mrs. William Gardner that their daughter,\n Diane Gardner, could attend Jackson P. Burley in the\n 1962-1963 school sessions.","After denying his request, Ellis wrote on October 22, since the Court\n made its ruling to allow transfers in the elementary schools, his\n daughter, Vernita M. Taylor could attend Venable School.","After denying their request, Dr. Ellis wrote on October 22 that since\n the Court had made its ruling to allow transfers; his son could\n attend Johnson School.","After denying his request, Dr. Ellis gave her permission to transfer\n to Venable since the Court made its decision to allow transfers.","After denying her request, Ellis informed her that her children could\n attend Venable after the Court decision of September 17, 1962.","Mrs. Williams requested permission for Clyde Melvin Green to attend\n Lane and Dr. Ellis gave his approval although he wrote her that he\n did not think that it was in his \"best educational interest\" to\n transfer since he was in the eleventh grade. There are notations on\n the letter in pencil of his grades and test scores.","There was a phone message from the principal's office that Carolyn\n Brooks was at the wrong school. Dr. Ellis made a scribble on the\n note that \"nothing be done said to child [sic] and wait to see what\n happened.\"","Battle expressed his pessimism over the direction of the case. The\n Court (Judge Sobelof, Judge Soper, and Judge Boreman) felt that\n since the School Board accepted all of the applications for \"white\"\n children, they could not deny any applications from a \"Negro\" child,\n even if he was deficient academically.","Dr. Ellis outlined the policies for requesting transfers as well as\n reporting on the number of requests.","Superintendent Ellis denied her request since the ruling was under\n appeal and no decision had been made yet to change it.","Paul G. Hook, Superintendent of Fredericksburg Public Schools asked\n Dr. Ellis about admitting \"Negro\" students into \"white\" schools\n saying, \"Obviously, we want to admit as few as possible.\"","Battle wrote to Judge John Paul asking him to await the final\n decisions of the U. S. Court of appeals and ignore the motion filed\n by S. W. Tucker.","Battle wrote to Judge Sobeloff expressing his resistance to the\n motions filed by S. W. Tucker.","Gloria Hamilton was described in a letter from Fendall R. Ellis as\n having a low academic record. See 1:91 1960 August 10 and 2:58 court\n cases test scores.","Battle wrote that he was preparing a motion for a continuation of a\n stay so that they could get more time to apply for a writ of\n certiorari from the U. S. Court of Appeals. Ruling included.","There is a list of the \"Negro\" pupils in the first through seventh\n grades for each teacher at Venable and Johnson Schools for November\n 15, 1962, and a total number of \"Negro\" pupils at Johnson, Venable,\n and Lane for November 20, 1962, and a list for Johnson School for\n September 12, 1963.","Marvin E. Garrette wrote to Acting Superintendent Tramontin about the\n importance of publishing pupil assignments. He argued that other\n communities needed this information to help them with their\n desegregation plans as well as the people in Charlottesville.","Mr. Johnson complained to Superintendent Tramontin that the bond\n issue was being represented in a negative manner and that the School\n Administration was trying to preserve segregation.","Reprinted from The Richmond News\n Leader","List of forty four plaintiffs represented by Oliver Hill and a\n statement about the delaying of desegregation in the Charlottesville\n City Schools. See another copy of the petition in 1:11","The transcription of the trial is one hundred and thirty eight pages\n and includes litigation by Attorney General James Lindsay Almond.\n The Court ruled that as long as the School Board was acting in good\n faith and trying to take steps toward integration, there would not\n be any punitive action taken against them.","Judge John Paul explained that unless the School Board admitted some\n of the forty \"Negro\" applicants into \"white\" schools for the next\n term, he would have to hold the School Board in contempt of court.\n Mr. Battle explained that if they took that action, the state would\n close the schools.","There are figures on current enrollment and lists of applicants for\n admission into \"white schools.\" Also included are pupil assignments,\n and student applications for admission.","Enclosed are materials such as test scores, enrollment information,\n teachers' comments, and residences of the plaintiffs to be used in\n the court cases. The materials included test scores from the Iowa\n Silent Reading Test, and California Test of Mental Maturity.","John S. Battle, Jr. made a request to the Court that they accept the\n Desegregation Plan [\"Battle Plan\"] which they did.","Complainants Weir E. Wharton and Lynwood G. Preddy were granted an\n injunction to temporarily stop the desegregation plan from being\n used in pupil placements in the public elementary schools.","The case sought to have enrollments deferred until September\n 1959.","Battle asserted that School Board denied the transfers for these\n students based upon lawful grounds using the desegregation plan. He\n also pointed out that they had admitted some of the \"Negro\" students\n to \"white\" schools.","The motion was filed on behalf of ten \"Negro\" students whose\n applications for enrollment at Lane, Venable and Johnson Schools\n were denied by the Superintendent. Judge John Paul ruled in favor of\n the School Board.","Oliver W. Hill filed an appeal in the United States Court of Appeals\n for the Fourth Circuit for his clients (ten \"Negro\" pupils) and a\n review of the desegregation plan. The Court recognized that the plan\n had some discrimination but ruled that the School Board was acting\n in good faith, and had made some progress in assigning some \"Negro\"\n students to previously \"white\" schools.","S. W. Tucker filed a motion asking the Court to order the School\n Board to admit the \"Negro\" students into the schools that they had\n requested for the 1961-1962 term.","Fendall R. Ellis gave a list of students with their address,\n enrollment dates, other enrollment figures, and information about\n the members of the School Board to the Court.","Fendall R. Ellis was subpoenaed to appear in the United States\n District Court to testify and bring records showing the present\n student enrollment and number of teachers in each of the\n Charlottesville public schools.","The District Judge issued his opinion that the School Board was\n falling short of practicing desegregation. He advised that criteria\n (tests) that were being applied to \"Negro\" children must also be\n applied to white children. [Needs flattening]","Mr. Battle wrote an outline and summary of his case to the Judge\n after The United States Court of Appeals ruled that the practices of\n the School Board in pupil assignments were \"forbidden by the\n Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.\" Of\n note, Battle wrote, \"In a relatively short period of time natural\n shifts in the population of Charlottesville will undoubtedly result\n in a greater number of \"Negro\" families living in the \"white school\"\n districts.\"","The Court ruled that the School Board was not administering the\n desegregation plan as it was intended and the case was remanded to\n the Court to allow the transfer of \"Negro\" students into white\n schools (without testing). Battle wrote Ellis that they would file a\n motion for a stay of all proceedings regarding the elementary school\n situation until they could apply to Chief Justice Warren and the U.\n S. Supreme Court to review the decision made by the lower court\n (writ of certiorari). [Needs flattening]","Marvin C. Sutphin, Assistant Superintendent of Charlottesville\n Schools, signed an affidavit confirming the enrollment figures for\n the 1964-1965 school sessions; the school policy that race\n was not designated on the school enrollment records; and all\n requests for school transfers by June 19, 1964 were honored.","Notes were taken during an interview with Mr. and Mrs. Frederick D.\n Wallace by [Dr. Ellis' assistant] to determine if the Wallace children\n could transfer from Gordonsville to Charlottesville Schools. From the\n notes it appears that the request was probably denied.","The School Board made a resolution that no plans could be made until the\n legal aspects of the decision were determined, that the public school\n system be maintained, and that flexibility be a huge component of any\n plan including delaying compulsive attendance laws.","Mr. Battle interpreted the ruling of Judge John Paul and explained that\n any applications for student transfers should be determined on a\n racially non-discriminatory basis. The School Board made a resolution\n (desegregation plan) that designated geographical areas for six\n elementary schools of the city and the application of academic standards\n and interviews to determine pupil placement. (The \"Battle Plan\") See\n also 1:38.","There is a resolution thanking the Charlottesville Community for their\n assistance with education while the schools were closed.","The School Board made a resolution to operate Venable and Lane Schools in\n strict compliance with the law regarding pupil placements and court\n orders. There was also a meeting on January 30 th designating February 4, 1959 as the reopening of Venable\n and Lane on a racially segregated basis.","The School Board mentioned that the plaintiffs (in Allen v. School Board)\n received little academic instruction during the 1958-1959 school\n term so the superintendent would arrange tutoring for them prior to\n September 1959.","The superintendent recommended an experiment to separate the pupils by\n gender for some grades during the 1959-1960 school sessions.\n There is also correspondence and a news clipping about separate\n classrooms for boys and girls in order to avoid \"Race\n Mongrelization\"","Articles are mostly from The Daily\n Progress and discuss the court cases and the events\n impacting the schools in Charlottesville.","Articles are from The Daily Progress which\n span from the reopening of the schools to the development of\n desegregation plans. Also newspaper articles looking back on\n desegregation. # items","The Charlottesville Educational Foundation: (segregation oriented) was a\n group that formed to offer education during the closing of Venable and\n Lane Schools.","There is a list of the objectives which was primarily to keep public\n schools open and avoid private schools (since they were not a permanent\n solution to the school crisis.)","One broadside with two articles from The Lynchburg\n News , one written by John S. Battle, Jr. \"Scholarship\n Program May Result In Even More Integration\" and \"Mr. Battle Speaks\n Out.\"","Notes from the Attorney General's office that instructed the School Board\n to show the total number of children residing in the city multiplied by\n the cost to the city for their education; money for scholarships; and\n money for school operations","Superintendent Ellis completed a survey on the effect of the closed\n schools on students, teachers and public attitudes.","The organization was formed to offer temporary education during the\n closing of the schools. There are articles of Incorporation, mission of\n the group, and a petition asking that the local authorities be allowed\n to handle the school situation.","There is a telegram from the PPB informing the School Board that the\n placement board would assign the pupils. The School Board decided to\n file a motion questioning their authority. Also included is a list of\n procedures for pupil placements.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the board for the school\n session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and 1959-1960.","Applications for placement of pupils approved by the Pupil Placement\n Board for school session 1956-1957, 1957-1958, and\n 1959-1960.","There are reports that depict the names and number of students who were\n recipients; the private schools that they attended; and the net costs to\n the City and State.","Southern Regional Council was organized in 1919 to fight racial injustice\n in the South.","Articles included are: Report No. L-6 on the \"The 'Davis Report' and the\n Truth about the Public School situation in Washington, D. C.\" 1959, July\n 3; Report No. L-8 on \"Race and Intelligence\" (Eighteen of the \"Country's\n leading psychologists and anthropologists\" issued comments about the\n equality of the races) 1959 August 10; Report No. L-9 on \"The Private\n School Answer to the Desegregation Crisis The Virginia Experience\" 1959\n September 1; Report No. L-13 \"Did you find that there was much\n difference in the ability of Negro children to receive and profit by\n instruction?\" December 15, 1959;Report No. L-14 \"A Report From Virginia\"\n 1960 February 15; Report L-15 \"Types of Desegregation Plans\" can be\n found under Desegregation Plans in Other Areas 4:15; Report L-16 on\n \"Atlanta and Washington Racial Differences in Academic Achievement by\n Frank H. Stallings 1960 February 26 Printed?; Report No. L-17\n \"Desegregation and Academic Achievement, March 14, 1960; Report No. L-19\n \"What Price Tag for 'Massive Resistance?\" (by Frank Trippett Reprinting\n from St. Petersburg Times) October 14, 1960; Report No. L-20 Problem\n Solving Through Race Relations 1960 October 25; Report No. L-21 \"Public\n Schools and community Development\" 1960 November 30; Report No. L-22\n Memorandum \"To Florida Leaders In Civic, Religious, and Business\n Affairs\" 1960 December 9;Special Report 19 \"Sanctuaries for Tradition:\n Virginia's New Private Schools\" 1961 February 8; Report No. L-24\n Addresses by businessmen in Atlanta, and New Orleans 1960-1961;\n Report No. L-26 Address from General Lucius D. Clay at the Governor's\n Conference on Trade and Commerce in Atlanta, Georgia 1961 July 25;\n Report No. L-31 Wall Street Journal article, \"Slipping Segregation:\n Negroes Win Lowering of More Barriers in South\" 1962 February 6; Report\n No. L-32 Commentary by Dr. William P. Sullivan of Carleton Putnam's\n book, Race and Reason: A Yankee View .\n 1962 March 9; Report No. L-33 \"A Statement of Recommended Police Policy\n Resulting from the New York University Graduate School of Public\n Administration Conference on 'The Challenge of Desegregation for the\n American Police Executive\" 1962 March 9; Report No. L-34-A\n \"Desegregation of Southern Parochial Schools\" 1963 August 19; Report No.\n L-45on \"Public Education in Mississippi\" 1963 August 19","The board wanted the Constitutional Convention to amend Section 141\n (which barred the use of public funds for private education) and would\n allow the schools to use tuition grants to send \"white\" children to all\n \"white\" schools.","There is written statement by Superintendent Ellis describing the events\n in Charlottesville following the decision of the Supreme Court in Brown\n v. Board of Education.","There is a resolution that urged the Governor to call a special meeting\n of the General Assembly to establish legislation that would provide\n guidelines in resolving the issues with desegregation.","There is a letter to Superintendent Ellis from John H. Marion,\n introducing Ellis to the VCHR, which supported desegregation. Also\n included are letters from the American Council on Human Relations.","There is a statement from the General Assembly inviting the citizens of\n Virginia to vote on a constitutional convention that would allow the\n state to financially support private schools with tuition grants and\n amend Section 141.","There is a petition requesting an end to racial segregation signed by\n three hundred and six residents. There is also letter from the\n Superintendent of Schools, George C. Tramontin to John S. Battle, Jr.\n asking for advice on how to respond.","Included is a proposed plan for \"Desegregation in the Charlottesville\n Schools\" by Eunice M. Jackson with a map of school districts. There are\n also policies listed for the pupil placement plans, and suggestions from\n Judge John Paul titled, \"Reorganization of Charlottesville Schools to\n which Negroes Have Been Assigned.\" There is also a paper by Dr. B. J.\n Chandler and Dr. Douglas S. Ward, \"A Plan for the Preservation of the\n Virginia Public School System,\" and a memo on the meaning and\n implications of \"deliberate speed.\" See also 3:17 Minutes of the\n Charlottesville School Board and Desegregation Plan 1959 February\n 18.","There are descriptions of desegregation plans for cities in Kentucky,\n Tennessee, Maryland, Arkansas, Virginia, Texas, and Georgia. Included is\n also the \"Wise Plan for the Maintenance of Segregated Education in\n Virginia.\"","Included are some questions relating to the Gray Commission School\n Plan.","Report on the history of desegregation and the attitudes of the community\n in Charlottesville.","Resolution to appeal the recent decision of the District Court of the\n United States for the Western District of Virginia and a resolution to\n reply to Oliver W. Hill's petition.","Resolution that the President of the United States be urged to provide\n leadership in the school crisis confronting Virginia following the\n Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education","Included are excerpts from the speech by Senator Harry F. Byrd at his\n 37 th Annual Orchard Picnic,\n Berryville, Virginia. Senator Byrd mentioned the closed schools in\n Prince Edward County. He also spoke about his opposition to the visit\n from Krushschev, and the Warren Commission.","Senator Byrd issued a statement in support of calling the Constitutional\n Convention.","Superintendent Howard supported the calling of the Constitutional\n Convention and the amendment to Section 141.","The Declaration which was to be presented to the Senate, criticized the\n decision of the Supreme Court in Brown vs. Board of Education","Correspondents include Harris Hart, Superintendent of Public\n Instruction; Superintendent James G. Johnson; Major John Graves,\n City Attorney; and Walter F. George. Topics mentioned are a bond\n issue; County Unit Law and the abolishment of District School\n Boards; outline of the history of the city and county; and the\n United States Senate Committee on Finance and tax legislation.","The city and county reached a compromise in a motion filed by the\n city to annex land in the county.","Correspondents include James Harry Michael, Jr. and Superintendent\n Dr. Edward W. Rushton. Topics include James Harry Michael's speech\n to the Senate; kindergarten enrollment; pupil transportation;\n hearing and speech programs; twenty year old pupils; sick leave\n policies; Barksdale felony case; names for Charlottesville High\n School; bus monitors; and merging county and city school districts.\n There is also a \"vote for Michael for Lt. Governor\" autographed\n card.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Paul M. Peatross, Jr.,\n and Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. Topics mentioned are a legal\n case about the naming of Charlottesville High School; salaries of\n School Board members; relocation of VEPCO lines; maternity leave,\n budget crisis including a comment from Senator James Harry Michael,\n Jr. that this was \"the roughest [session] I have yet served in;\n House Bill 373 on employee retirement benefits; Southern States\n payment; injections for students in an emergency situation; hospital\n bill for a student who was burned at Lane High School; altercation\n after a basketball game; a deed granting ownership of the McGuffey\n School to the City; suit against Pastor Frederick Patrick; and the\n widening of Preston Avenue.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr. and\n Superintendent Dr. William J. Ellena. Topics mentioned are\n successful negotiations with VEPCO; suspension of students at\n Buford; permission to name truant students in the newspaper; search\n and seizure of student property; salary of a principal after a\n sabbatical; dismissal of a teacher; instructional television,\n Virginia High School League and the North Western District from the\n Commonwealth, lease of Lane High School; and a Superintendent's\n right to his own legal counsel.","Correspondents mentioned are Paul M. Peatross, Senator James Harry\n Michael, Jr. the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; J. Page Williams;\n Michael \u0026 Dent, LTD.; Dr. Marvin C. Sutphin, and Dr. William J.\n Ellena. Topics are the Virginia High School League and the Northwest\n Region of the Commonwealth; personnel issues; sabbatical leave;\n federally funded teachers; nepotism; probation of wrestling coach;\n by-laws for the student School Board; conflict of interest of a\n School Board member (Family Services); bidding for school pictures;\n loaning money to students in emergency situations; collective\n bargaining and the Charlottesville Education Foundation, and a\n bidding process for the Yellow Transit Company.","Correspondents include Senator James Harry Michael, Jr., and Attorney\n General Anthony F. Troy. Topics mentioned are a legal case,\n International Brotherhood of Teamsters v. United States, et al.;\n Federal judgeship for James Harry Michael, Jr.; unused funds; sale\n of land from the Technical Education Center; advertising on the\n athletic field score board; deed for the sale of Lane High School;\n conflict of interest for a School B oard member; contract for Yellow\n Transit Company; unemployment and insurance matters; and a lawsuit\n involving a professor with sabbatical leave.","Correspondents mentioned are Leroy Bruton, Dr. John S. Wright, Rayner\n V. Snead, Jr., John L. Snook, Raymond Bell, and Attorney General\n Marshall Coleman. Topics mentioned are new statutes in the Virginia\n Freedom of Information Act; the Virginia Code and conflict of\n interests; open School Board meetings; the length of School Board\n terms; right of access to a students' files; the retirement age\n changed to 70; federally funded research; by-laws for the Piedmont\n Regional Education Program; an easement to drain water from Johnson\n School; a lawsuit involving a professor with sabbatical leave; the\n rent for the Opportunities Industrialization Center, Inc.; the\n Charlottesville High School football stadium; updates on personnel\n policies; (Reprove case;) bids for a roofing project; and a contract\n with the Bayly Museum for educational instruction.","Correspondents mentioned are R. Lynwood Coffman; Judge James Harry\n Michael, Jr.; Aaron Mathew Farley and his parents; Office of the\n Attorney General; Edward L. Hogshire; and Dr. William J. Ellena.\n Topics of interest are legal cases, namely the case involving a\n hearing impaired student, Aaron Mathew Farley v. The Honorable S.\n John Davis; the Charlottesville Learning Exchange v. Richard A.\n Bergerson; and the Virginia Electric and Power Company agreement.\n Other topics mentioned are the \"Bishop\" bill; the Virginia Code; the\n field and gym at Charlottesville High School; access to student's\n files; grade promotion requests; tax questions; Yellow Transit\n Company; school picture and school ring contracts; freezers at Lane\n High School; and bonuses to bus drivers. There is a resume of Judge\n James Harry Michael, Jr.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena; Stainback and Scribner;\n Thomas J. Michie, Jr.; Karen Barket; and Thomas McLernon. Topics\n mentioned are the Farley case; insurance; Dr. Ellena's contract;\n legal fees; payroll deductions; tax and social security; by-laws of\n the Board of Education; alteration of hours; supervision of a\n softball game; nepotism; payment disputes with architects; School\n Board committee meetings; the Virginia Freedom of Information Act;\n and policy for employment application forms.","Topics mentioned are legal cases such as Robert Danfield Gormes vs.\n Patrick C. Houchens, Charlottesville School Board v. Rita Wood;\n School Board v. Adom, Inc.; Hewitt Studios, Inc. v. Central Virginia\n School Portraits Ltd. and George C. Meador. Other legal issues\n include handicapped students and buses; spraying to remove Kudzo;\n city and county for sharing special educational programs, and access\n to student files.","Topics mentioned are access to student files by a divorced parent,\n pending case involving Adom, Inc.; and a grading plan and contract\n for Moore's Creek and Fifth Street.","There is a summary of the decisions made during the Supreme Court\n Term (1988-1989) and its impact on schools. Also included is\n a copy of the Charlottesville Public Schools Equal Employment\n Opportunity and Affirmative Action Plan for Personnel Director,\n Robert R. Hart. There is also a statement of legal fees due Hogan\n \u0026 Hartson.","Topics mentioned are anti-drug regulations and the Drug-Free\n Workplace Act of 1988; and a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1989-1990. There is correspondence about Judge Dillin and\n the court case of Donny Brurell Buckley and The Board of School\n Commissioners of the City of Indianapolis.","Topics mentioned are a Supreme Court case in Board of Education of\n Oklahoma City v. Dowell about busing and racial population; Freeman\n v. Pitts about race and demographic trends; the legalities regarding\n schools selling student information to the United States Armed\n Forces. Also included are a summary of the Supreme Court decisions\n for 1990-1991, a summary of President George Herbert Walker\n Bush's Civil Rights Act of 1991, and memos about the Hogan \u0026\n Hartson law firm opening an office in Paris and Prague.","Topics mentioned are the case of Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public\n Schools regarding sexual harassment; the case of Freeman v. Pitts;\n Lee v. Weisman about prayers during graduation ceremonies and a\n summary of the Supreme Court decisions for 1991-1993; memo\n about Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas; the case,\n Harris v. Forklist Systems, Inc. regarding sexual harassment; Office\n for Civil Rights guidelines for racial harassment; rules from the\n Securities and Exchange Commission; the Family and Medical Leave\n Act; gun laws; and students with disabilities.","Letter from W. H. Wood, Clothier, about Reverend Andrew Allen and an\n application for the position of teacher; Letter from Dr. Johnson to\n Charles G. Maphis at the University of Virginia about reading\n methods and vacation school work. There is a history of the\n Charlottesville Schools written by James G. Johnson. There is\n retirement information about Dr. Johnson in an issue of The McGuffey Reader vol. XIV Number 9\n and The Sentinel vol. XIX Number 9\n (1945)","There are many memos to staff, reports on school needs, lists of\n teachers, and pupil scholarship application forms.","Proposals and resolution to pave Main Street","Correspondents mentioned are Fendall R. Ellis, James E. Bowen, and L.\n G. Harding. Topics include repairs and additions at Venable, Lane,\n Jefferson, Burnley-Moran, Clark, and Johnson Schools; radiological\n detection instruments; bills, budget; and the widening of McIntire\n Road.","Correspondents include James E. Bowen, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Fendall R. Ellis, George C. Tramontin, John L. Hammond, Arthur E.\n Chapman, R. E. Lee and Son, Inc., Lindsay B. Mount, Louie L.\n Scribner, John R. Ponton, Jack M. Dunnavant, Jr., C. Herbert Paseur,\n and Robert T. Marsh. Topics include land purchases and improvements\n for Greenbrier, Clark, Burley, and Jefferson schools; extension of\n Shamrock Road; school building costs; city and county contract\n (1950) for a Joint Negro High School; three new junior high schools;\n enrollment figures and costs; number of \"Negro\" and \"white\"\n teachers; budget (including the statement that no one could\n understand the budget formula except \"Mr. Blount;\") student to\n teacher ratios; drop-outs; architectural fees; old nailed down\n desks; teacher salaries; and tuition grants.","Correspondents include Lindsay B. Mount, Bernard J. Haggerty Jr.,\n Burkett A. Rennolds, James E. Bowen, Jr., George C. Tramontin,\n Edward W. Rushton, Edward O. McCue, Jr., W. Copley McLean, Hovey S.\n Dabney, and Paul Saunier, Jr., Topics include land purchases, new\n schools, and improvements for Burley, Jefferson, Lane, Greenbrier,\n Clark, Johnson; Buford, and Walker schools; county pupils in city\n schools, board meeting minutes including the budget; teacher\n salaries; list of personnel; need for kindergarten programs; busing;\n transportation of handicapped children; gym rental; and Westminster\n Study Tutorial.","Correspondents include Edward W. Rushton, William J. Ellena, Burkett\n A. Reynolds; G. A. Vogt, James E. Bowen, Jr., Dr. W. Copley McLean,\n James Harry Michael, Jr; Laurence A. Brunton, Mitchell Van Yahres,\n Cole Hendrix, Francis H. Fife, Booker T. Reaves, and Satyendra Huja.\n Topics mentioned are land purchases and construction for new\n schools; use of Burley, task force on roads including McIntire Road\n and 250 bypass; board meeting minutes about budget, appropriation of\n funds, and interns; enrollment figures; city sidewalks; retirement\n of James E. Bowen, Jr., Frankfurt International School; bus safety;\n and the Kimley-Horn report on pupil transportation.","Correspondents include the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Francis Fife,\n Ronnie Durhan, Richard L. Jennings, Charles L. Barbour, William J.\n Ellena, and Nancy O'Brien. Topics include City and School Board\n communication; athletic facilities at Charlottesville High School;\n mentally impaired children; budget; teacher to student ratios; joint\n city and school processes, differentiation between administrative\n and instructive personnel; school owned automobiles; and grants.","Correspondents include William J. Ellena, Francis H. Fife, Cole\n Hendrix, J. A. Kessler, the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell, Booker T.\n Reaves, Satyhendra Huja, Clarence McClure, and Alicia B. Lugo.\n Topics include land purchases; construction costs; a joint athletic\n stadium and new gymnasium; deed for Charlottesville High School;\n joint city-county council; city use of swimming pools and\n renovations at Buford and Walker schools; city maintenance of school\n athletic facilities; joint data processing; use of McGuffey, Lane\n and Jefferson schools; rental funds and fire safety at Lane; parking\n at McGuffey and map; capital projects; hiring of architects\n Stainback and Scribner; pupil transportation and Yellow Transit\n Company; board meeting minutes; unused funds; Region X; middle\n school program; and a conference on crime.","Correspondents mentioned are Francis H. Fife, George H. Gilliam, Cole\n Hendrix, Elizabeth A. Bowers, Dale R. Metcalf, William J. Ellena,\n Harry Porter, Richard L. Jennings, Nancy K. O'Brien, Fahy G.\n Mullaney,Thomas W. Branham, Cole Hendrix, W.P. Mitchell, Gerald E.\n Fisher, Carl Van Fossen, and T. Page Williams of Michael and Dent,\n LTD. Plans to allow Albemarle County Offices access to the Lane High\n School building in exchange for allowing the City access to the\n Burley School and the eventual sale of Lane. (See also\n Miscellaneous, Schools, Lane High School Box 66 Folder: 17))","Correspondents include Dr. Charles William Hurt; Dr. William J.\n Ellena; Nancy K. O'Brien; Richard L. Jennings; Roger C. Wiley; C.\n Robert Stripling; Cole Hendrix; Booker Reaves, and William P.\n Mitchell. Topics mentioned are land grading, and school construction\n at Charlottesville High, Greenbrier, Clark, and Jackson-Via schools.\n Also mentioned are economic related items such as the consolidation\n of school and city functions; gas shortages; reduction of water use;\n salaries; capital projects; joint data processing system; economic\n development; community education; United Way campaign; lack of funds\n for a hearing program (Farley case); and an urban observatory\n report.","Correspondents include Dr. William J. Ellena, Richard L. Jennings,\n Laurence A. Brunton, Barbara B. Deaver, Cole Hendrix, William P.\n Mitchell; Jimmie J. Dunbar, James R. Boyd, Region Ten Community\n Home; Senator Harry F. Byrd, Jr., and Francis L. Buck, Topics\n mentioned are a new auditorium, gym, and sports complex for\n Charlottesville, and repairs for Buford, and Walker schools, social\n security, retirement; budget; capital improvement; speech and\n hearing services (letter to Harry F. Byrd, Jr., Farley case;)\n inappropriate song \"Suffocation;\" audits; hiring; pupil to teacher\n ratio; salaries; Region Ten Property; enrollment; and All America\n City Banquet.","Correspondents include Cole Hendrix, Dr. William Ellena, Region Ten\n Community Services, Satyendra Singh Huja, Richard L. Jennings,\n Francis L. Buck, C. Robert Stripling, Thomas McLernon, Mitchell Van\n Yahres, Alicia B.Lugo, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Vincent C. Cibbarelli;\n Roger C. Wiley; Mark Krebs; Jimmie J. Dunbar, Robert Sheets and\n Adom, Inc. Topics mentioned are land sale, and school repairs at\n Charlottesville and Buford schools; Technical Education Center; city\n and school repairs; city and county consolidation; bus supervision;\n Region Ten property; reduction of water use; budget; federal budget\n cuts; capital improvements; salary increase for School Board\n members; Lane Football Field; and a data processing system.","Correspondents include Vincent Cibbarelli, Alicia B. Lugo, Francis L.\n Buck, Jimmie J. Dunbar, Dr. John Morris III, Mitchell Van Yahres,Tom\n McLernon, Robert Black, Myron E. Cale, Gary B. O'Connell, Dr. Joseph\n Mooney, and Cole Hendrix. Topics mentioned are building program\n (from 1967;) improvements for Charlottesville High School; asbestos\n removal; city staff to maintain school athletic fields; city and\n county coordination; budget; audit; capital improvements; aid grant;\n joint processing data system; phonics and look-say teaching methods;\n increase in salary for City School Board members and teachers.","Correspondents include Francis L. Buck, Alicia B. Lugo, Vincent\n Cibbarelli, Thomas McLernon, Gary B. O'Connell, Herbert R. Cottrill;\n Helen H. Poore; Richard D. Greig, Cole Hendrix, Attorney General\n Gerald L. Baliles, Alson H. Smith, Jr., Mitchell Van Yahres, Donald\n J. Finley, and Joseph Mooney. Topics included are use of Jefferson\n School; repairs and renovations for Clark, Venable, Jackson-Via, and\n Charlottesville High School; bus drivers strike; academic\n achievement; education, pupil transportation; School Board members\n term of office; student government; summer and after school\n programs; salaries; federal funding cuts; capital improvements;\n internal accounting; lawsuit (special education student;) teacher\n reference; and Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution","Correspondents mentioned are Francis L. Buck, Elizabeth B. Waters,\n Vincent Cibbarelli, Richard D. Greig, Joseph Mooney, John L.\n Pezzoli, Cole Hendrix, and Monique Cardin. Topics include the\n basketball team; reorganization of the middle schools to balance\n minorities at Buford and Walker students; task force on youth;\n capital projects; budget; county students; French teacher; and a new\n smoking ordinance.","Elizabeth B. Waters; Joseph R. McGeehan; Alvin Edwards; Rauzelle J.\n Smith; Thomas J. Vandever; David J. Toscano; Linda S. Seaman;\n Dorothea M. Shannon; and John T. Casteen, III. Topics mentioned are\n Madison House; Piedmont Virginia Community College and the\n University of Virginia; salaries; the Performing Arts Center;\n Italian-American Educational Exchange Program; phonics; asbestos;\n gain sharing; achievement of African-American pupils; board meeting\n minutes; 7-Eleven stores commitment to literacy; Walker students;\n Albemarle County High School Feasibility Study; Tonsler Park; and\n the West Main Street revitalization project. There is also a letter\n from Alvin Edwards asking First Lady Barbara Bush to listen to a\n story written by a fifth grade student.","Other correspondents mentioned are Charles M. Robinson, J. A.\n Burgess, Harmon \u0026 Walsh, C. W. Allen, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, Ferguson, Calrow \u0026 Taylor, and Mayor Olivier. Topics\n include a purchase of The Rectory of the Episcopal Church; plans and\n bids for work on existing and new school buildings; overcrowding and\n repairs at [Midway School;] a conflict of interest with\n Charlottesville Lumber Company; a street car switch; and tension\n between Mayor Olivier and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are J. H. Lindsay, James G. Johnson, Eugene\n Bradbury, J. E. Harrison, H. B. Lee, J. E. Early, and Thomas Carr.\n Topics include a resolution for a new high school; use of the\n Episcopal Rectory as a primary school; alterations to H. B. Lee's\n house; purchases of McKee Row and Patterson property; and minutes of\n the School Board.","Some of the correspondence reveals that Dr. Johnson was very\n concerned about the subcontractor following his instructions on\n plastering and Mr. Calrow mediated between Dr. Johnson and the\n Charlottesville Lumber Company.","American Blower Company detail of a fan","Tensions continued between Dr. Johnson and the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and caused delays in construction. There was also a\n discrepancy with quotes given by N. A. Murphy of the American\n Heating and Ventilation Company.","Correspondents include W. R. Barksdale, Charlottesville Lumber\n Company, The Slatington Banger Slate Syndicate, American Blower\n Company, Mr. R. Smith, and Johnson Service Company. Dr. Johnson\n wrote to Mr. Calrow about the delays with the Charlottesville Lumber\n Company and his dissatisfaction with the stone work. (Papers are\n very fragile and torn).","There is a proposal from Dr. Johnson to locate the new school\n (Venable) on Fourteenth Street, hire Calrow as the architect and\n name the school Davis Primary School after Noah K. Davis, a highly\n respected teacher and follower of McGuffey. He also proposed to use\n Major Eugene Bradbury as the architect for the expansion of the\n \"colored school.\" There is also a list of streets in\n Charlottesville.","Correspondents mentioned James G. Johnson, Charles J. Calrow, Dr.\n Edwin Alderman, Major Eugene Bradbury, Miss Carrie Burnley, Miss\n Septima Moran, Mrs. Fred M. Alexander, Mrs. Huffman, and Linthicum\n \u0026 Linthicum Architects. Topics include land purchases, a bond\n issue and building Venable School; exhaustion for Dr. Johnson; a\n comment from Dr. Alderman that McGuffey was \"one of the most\n beautiful buildings that he has ever seen;\" recommendation of Major\n [Eugene] Bradbury as architect for the \"colored school;\" quote by\n Johnson that, \"… wherever they may breathe the air; she [Miss\n Burnley]and Miss Moran both of whom have more instinct about what is\n right than any two women you can find..;\" comment from Johnson,\n \"Please do not say grammar school any more. Never use any other term\n than Primary School","Correspondents include James G. Johnson, Major John S. Graves,\n Charles J. Calrow, and the United States Radiator Corporation.\n Topics include the Charlottesville Charter; date of bidding process;\n allocation of funds; the building boycott; illness of Dr. Johnson's\n son; and Mr. McIntire's knowledge about architecture.","There are letters about finalizing specifications and plans; waiting\n to hear from courts about the Charlottesville Charter; and delays\n due to a gasoline ordinance in which Richard E. Byrd [Admiral?] is\n mentioned.","Correspondents include W. P. Thurston Company, Miller Engineering\n Corporation, Charlottesville Lumber Company; King Lumber Company,\n Graham Construction Company, W. L. Ragland Company, Burroughs \u0026\n Mankin, Salem Brick Company, National Radiator Company, and Glasgow\n Clay Products Company. Topics include the Charlottesville Charter;\n the bond issue; references for Gooch-Williams Company who won the\n bid; copy of bid from McGuffey School; minutes of the School Board\n and city council; and specifications for heating and ventilation\n from Calrow.","Correspondents also include Raymond V. Long, and Major John Graves.\n Topics included are architect fees; construction details such as\n racking lumber, bricks, and latrine fixtures; state recommendations;\n bond form with job specifications; and an agreement between\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company and the School Board.","Correspondents mentioned are William H. Wood; Major John Graves; and\n John Newcomb. Topics included are building details such as the\n foundation, defects in concrete walls, latrine fixtures, panic\n bolts, ditches, sand, cost of dirt, chipped stones, and removal of\n trees and stumps; the strike; \"Negroes\" and Jefferson Day\n excitement;\" a quote from Johnson, \"… no one could depend\n upon its being done right unless some expert like you [Calrow] or\n Professor Newcomb stood right over it every minute.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Co., Mr. Cabaniss;\n Salem Brick Company, Reading Iron Company, L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons,\n Lacy \u0026 Barnett, American Blower Co., and Linthicum \u0026\n Linthicum. Topics include repair for a concrete wall, and a refund\n from a land purchase.","Correspondents mentioned are Mr. Cabiniss , Mr. Milner, Raymond V.\n Long, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Mr. Warrick, Mr. Dyer, Economy Concrete\n Co. of Virginia, Williams Slate Co., Gooch-Williams, W. T. Martin\n Hardware Company, and L. T. Hanckel \u0026 Sons. Topics include\n Johnson's complaints about the \"slipshod\" construction work being\n done and efforts by Calrow to reassure Johnson; insurance on the\n building; hiring a watchman; and \"Negro\" gambling.","Correspondents mentioned are Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Thom Plastering,\n Gooch \u0026 Williams, W. T. Martin Hardware Company, Dr. Watson,\n [Harris Hank,] J. Y. Gooch \u0026 Company, W. H. Wood, [Milner,] Lacy\n \u0026 Barnett, Toch Brothers, James F. Minor, W. T. Martin Hardware\n Company, The Corbin Company, Salem Brick Company and R. L. Alexander\n Co. Topics included are the death of School Board member Dr. Watson;\n new school for \"colored\" children; hedging and plantings at Midway\n School; complaints about Lacy \u0026 Barnett; dissatisfaction with\n the plastering; payments; insurance; and minutes of the School\n Board.","Correspondents mentioned are United States Gypsum Company,\n Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, Lacy \u0026 Barnett, Eugene Bradbury,\n H. A. Yancey, [Mitchell,] Flavin \u0026 Watson Co., Inc., G. M.\n Pierce, A. C. Dyer \u0026 Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, R. L.\n Alexander, Co., Raymond V. Long, and The H. B. Smith Co., Topics\n included the mounting frustration of Johnson, and further attempts\n of Calrow to reassure him about the complaints (serious cracking in\n the plaster; drinking problem of Mr. Barnett, who had to be fired.\n Calrow wrote, \"Barnett has been drinking so much that he hardly\n knows what he has been doing for two months.\") Other topics include\n payment for drawings of changes to Jefferson School and grading of\n the Venable Athletic Field.","Correspondents mentioned are Dr. Edwin Alderman, Gooch-Williams \u0026\n Company, Hall \u0026 Mitchell, Raymond Long, and Mottley Construction\n Company. Topics include a comment by Dr. Alderman that Venable was\n \"the handsomest one in or about Charlottesville;\" exhaustion of\n Johnson; alterations of the \"Negro School;\" payments; unsatisfactory\n night watchman; poor stone work, plastering, and leaks at\n Venable.","Correspondents included are Gooch-Williams \u0026 Company, W. L. Lacy,\n and Glauber Brass Mf'g. Co. Topics mentioned are land purchased for\n additions to Jefferson School, and warrants for final payments.\n There is also a blue print sketch of the proposed sewer at\n Venable.","Correspondents mentioned are Lee H. Williamson, Allan J. Saville, C.\n P. Walston, L. F. Shelburne, J. H. Saunders, Henry G. Ellis, H. A.\n Hunt, H. C. Bowton, W. H. Kester, G.L. H. Johnson, Roy C. Bowers, T.\n J. Collins \u0026 Son, C. H. Hinnant, Stanislaw J. Makielski, E. W.\n Spence, L. O. Freeman, Jr., and Wyatt C. Wood. Topics include\n estimates for a new high school building [Lane;] School Board\n minutes, sewer survey; zoning contract; questionnaires answered from\n Virginia School Superintendents about their school buildings;\n architects interested in bids; and inspection of Midway School.","Correspondents included are Raymond V. Long, L.O. Freeman, Jr., W. J.\n and Lillie F. Harvey, B. G. and Kathleen Payne, Lloyd M and Annie L.\n Haggard, C. E. and Janie W. Crawford, D. W. and Willie M. Godwin, B.\n S. and Bettie J. Young, C. G. and Nannie Blake Jones, Major John\n Graves, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co.; Old Virginia Brick; A. Y. McDonald Mfg.\n Co.; E. T. Mankin, Incorporated; Fulton Brick Works; U. S. Radiator\n Corporation; National Radiator Corporation; Covington Brick Company;\n Staunton Brick Company; Glasgow Brick Company; Salem Brick Company;\n and Locher \u0026 Co., Inc.. Topics include land purchases;\n inspection of Midway School; estimate on the cost of a new high\n school building; an extension of Market Street from Second Street\n Northwest to connect into Preston Avenue at the foot of Beck's Hill\n and right of way through McGuffey; bond issue for a new elementary\n school [George Rogers Clark;] blue prints and plans for Clark\n School; references for contractors; and minutes of the School Board\n regarding Clark School.","Correspondents included are mostly bidders for constructing the new\n school, H. M. Wilson, The Wilson Company; Charlottesville Lumber\n Company; Doyle \u0026 Russell; J. F. Barbour \u0026 Sons; J. C.\n Curtis; Davis Brothers; Failes-Burrage Construction Company; James\n Fox \u0026 Sons; W. T. Gregory; Frank E. Hartman Company;\n Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company; J. R. Jones \u0026\n Conquest; Harwood Construction Company; Miller Engineering\n Corporation; North-Eastern Construction Company; J. T. Nuckols; Wise\n Granite \u0026 Construction Company; Alberene Stone Company, W. P.\n Thurston, The Thurston Company, Inc., Miller Engineering\n Corporation, P. E. W. Goodwin, J. W. Atkinson, Fuqua Construction\n Company, and Claiborne \u0026 Taylor Construction. Also included are\n Raymond V. Long, The Builders Exchange of Richmond, E. T. Mankin,\n Inc., Virginia Building Material, Co., Inc., Old Virginia Brick\n Company, J. A. Zurn Mfg. Co., A. Y. McDonald Mgr. Co., and United\n States Radiator Corporation. Topics include specifications and\n prints for Clark; and interest in the bidding process.","Correspondents mentioned are the W.P. Thurston Company, The Wilson\n Company, and the Harrisonburg Building and Supply Company. Topics\n include the award of the contract to The Wilson Company; concerns by\n contractors about the bidding process; minutes from a School Board\n meeting regarding the bids; bids of all the contractors and a\n contract agreement with The Wilson Company; references for the\n bidding contractors and subcontractors, and a list of supplies that\n the Wilson Company would need to begin their work.","Correspondents mentioned are The Wilson Company, Virginia Alberene\n Corporation, Economy Concrete Company, D. A. Ebinger, Sanitary MFG.\n Co., Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Standard Iron Works, and the Virginia\n Steel Company. Topics include schedules, costs of supplies and\n labor; plans and details of the construction of windows, stairs and\n stonework; and a requisition for payment to the Wilson Company.\n There is one sketch of a floor plan in the coal room.","Correspondents mentioned are W. F. Carter, Jr., The Young Men's\n Business Club, The Wilson Company, W. Allan Perkins, the\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, W. T. Martin Hardware Company,\n Sensibaugh-Ritchie Electric Company, Yale \u0026 Towne Mgf. Co., The\n Century Brass Works, S. Mirabella \u0026 Sons, Failes \u0026 Burrage,\n Shelby Spring Hinge Co., The Barrett Company, National Gypsum\n Company, Thomas Moulding Floor Company, W. L. Lacy, and Metrolite\n Manufacturing Co. Topics include receipts, requisitions; a report\n that alleged that out of town sub-contractors were always selected\n over local businesses; and a blue print for the Market Street\n expansion. Johnson and Calrow also discussed work that was being\n done on Dr. Johnson's house.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company, S. Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons, Failes-Burrage Construction Company, Thomas Moulding\n Floor Company, J. A. Burgess, and C. E. Chisholm. Topics include\n near completion of Clark School; the beauty of Venable School;\n receipts and a claim against the School Board and the Mirabella\n \u0026 Sons for payment due to the Failes-Burrage Construction\n Company.","Correspondents include W. L. Lacy, The Wilson Company,\n Charlottesville Hardware Company, Jarman's Inc., Virginia School\n Supply Company, E. C. Barnett, W. L. Lacy, Wallace Johnson, C. J.\n Davis, W. R. Smith, and Brown \u0026 Taylor. Topics include plumbing\n work at McGuffey School; inspection of Clark School; settlement from\n Failes-Burrage; minutes of a special meeting about concerns related\n to the bidding process for construction of Clark School; receipts\n and itemized annual statements from Calrow.","Correspondents mentioned are J. A. Burgess, Failes-Burrage\n Construction Company, Barnes Lumber Corporation, J. L. Dettor \u0026\n Son, Charlottesville Lumber Company, and W. L. Lacy, Hugh L.\n Sulfridge, E. V. Walker, Fred L. Watson, and board members, Robert\n A. Watson, John P. Sneed, Mrs. Charles A. Lambert, Mrs. Charles A.\n Graves, B. Lee Hawkins, F. B. Peyton, Miss Gertrude C. Mann, A. G.\n A. Balz and M. Kaufman. Topics included are budget; salaries; School\n Board minutes; repairs, cleaning and painting for Midway, Venable,\n McGuffey, and Jefferson School Buildings. Of note is that a \"white\"\n teacher earned twenty thousand dollars while a \"colored\" teacher\n earned four thousand dollars.","Correspondents included are W. L. Lacy, W. M. Bailey, E. C. Barnett,\n Hanckel-Citizens Insurance Corporation, H. B. Smith Company, Greaver\n and Roberts Repair Shop, and the Charlottesville Supply Company.\n Topics include bids for plumbing work at Midway and the contract\n awarded to W. L. Lacy.","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, W. L. Lacy, E. H.\n Sheldon and Company, Ezekiel Weilman Company, American Seating\n Company, Southern Desk Company, and Ritchie Electric Company. Topics\n mentioned are contractors; furniture and equipment contracts and\n specifications with the Federal Works Agency; minutes of the School\n Board; bidding instructions; cost estimates; and bids. (needs\n flattening)","Correspondents included are Pendleton S. Clark, Ezekiel \u0026 Weilman\n Company, Inc; James I. Barnes Construction Company; American Seating\n Company; Berger Manufacturing Division; E. H. Sheldon \u0026 Company;\n Baughman Stationery Company; Knoxville Scenic Studios; Flowers\n School Equipment Company; and The Southern Desk Company. Topics\n mentioned are blue prints for the kitchen and library and other\n construction for Lane High School.","There are handwritten notes about the court's decision that the\n School Board did not have to make payment to William Hodges.","Certificates for payment","Correspondents include W. T. Martin Hardware, The Hall's Safe\n Company, M. C. Thomas Furniture Company, National Seating Company,\n Progressive Teacher, Steel Furniture Company, Virginia Penitentiary\n Industrial Department, The Elastic Tip company, and The Peabody\n School Furniture Company. There are estimates and brochures for\n desks and other school supplies (for Venable School).","Correspondents included are Virginia School Supply Company, Virginia\n Penitentiary Industrial Department, Southern School Supply Company,\n General Seating Company, The Theodor Kundtz Company, E. H. Sheldon\n \u0026 Company, West Virginia Seating Company, ACME Chair Company,\n Keystone View Company, A. H. Andrews Company, Great Northern Chair\n Company. There is also information and samples from other suppliers\n such as Cunningham Springless Shade Company, A. Flanagan Company,\n Jarman Book Company, E. W. A. Rowles Company, Practical Drawing\n Company, Beckley-Cardy Company School Furnishers, A. J. Nystrom\n \u0026 Company, King Lumber Company, and Funk \u0026 Wagnalls Company.\n There is information about ordering and receiving desks and other\n school supplies for Venable and Midway schools.","Correspondents E. H. Sheldon, R. L. Thomas Company, Inc.,The Johnson\n Service Company, Virginia School Supply Company, The Theodor Kundtz\n Company, Virginia Penitentiary Industrial Department, Spencer Lens\n Company, Cary Manufacturing Company, ACME Chair Company, American\n Seating Company, National School Equipment, Great Northern Chair\n Company, and The A. H. Andrews Company. There are orders, catalogs,\n and quotations for school supplies including a lavatory, and an\n electric heat pump for McGuffey School.","The Harding Supply Co., The Thrift Coal Company, Valentine and Hull,\n Wood, Vest \u0026 Company, Burnley Brothers, Margarette Coal Company,\n Frances Coal Company, Divisional Code Authority, J. J. Porter Coal\n Company, Draper Sight-Saving Window Shades, and Sargent \u0026\n Greenleaf, Inc. Hall's Safe Co.","There is information about the Perry Foundation for grants and an income\n tax form.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","Includes correspondence between teacher, Marion Trevillion and Fendall R.\n Ellis about tutoring adults and their progress and travel receipts.","Included are invoices for reimbursements of teachers collecting census\n information. 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Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Employee coding tickets with social security numbers. Restricted due to\n social security numbers.","Restricted due to social security numbers.","These are standardized receipts for school payments.","includes reimbursements for principals","Other minutes are included with the correspondence because they relate\n directly to various subjects in the correspondence.)","Photocopy from an article in the Jeffersonian\n Republican printing the minutes of the School Board\n regarding corporal punishment and teaching methods for arithmetic,\n grammar and other subjects.","Bound ledger of handwritten minutes from the School Board","News clippings from The Daily Progress \n including articles by Superintendent James G. Johnson about the\n overcrowding at Midway School and plans for a new elementary school\n (McGuffey School).","There is an invitation to the public to hear the proposed school budget\n for the 1929-1930 school sessions and an article about Dr. James\n G. Johnson and the Parent Teacher Association. ( The Daily Progress )","Main topics include construction; student School Board; discipline; new\n schools and additional space; sex education; and merging of city and\n county resources. Articles also mention salaries of superintendents;\n hiring \"Negro\" teachers; and kindergarten programs.","In addition to the main topics there are also clippings about interns;\n busing; library video and television studio; and overcrowding.","Included with the main school topics, are articles about corporal\n punishment; busing; special education; naming and a move to\n Charlottesville High School; redistricting plans for Yancey School;\n exchange programs with Tandem, and Montessori schools.","Topics include budget cuts; moment of silence; retirement of the Reverend\n Henry B. Mitchell; election of Mayor Charles L. Barbour; racial\n discrimination (suspension of three \"black\" girls) and lawsuit; racial\n balance and socioeconomic tensions; competency plans; and a new\n gymnasium at Charlottesville High School.","Mayor G. A. Vogt encouraged communication from the community; Mayor\n Burkett A. Rennolds, City Councilmen Bernard J. Haggerty and Lindsay B.\n Mount declined re-election; Mayor Mitchell Van Yahres urged constituents\n to voice any concerns; Mayor Charles L. Barbour charged that there were\n secret meetings; selection of Mayor Nancy K. O'Brien, and Laurence A.\n Brunton.","Also includes editorials written by Superintendent Ellena.","Articles from Science and Technology; Time,\n Nation's Business, Parade, Phi Delta Kappan on teaching and\n the condition of the education system","There are a list of retirements, resignations, and appointments; and\n minutes. There is also a list of teachers at Buford Junior High School\n and a news clipping about teachers being hired.","There are photographs and an obituary of School Principal, Carrie\n Burnley. There are also memos and personal writings about the proper\n methods for teachers, and lesson plans by Miss Burnley.","Charter and job descriptions for the Head Start Program","There are descriptions of Burnley-Moran, Clark, Greenbrier, Johnson,\n Jackson-Via, and Venable elementary schools regarding census,\n demographics and socioeconomic status of school neighborhoods. There is\n also a list of the School Board members and the principals of all the\n city schools.","School Board minutes and planning for more space for \"Negro\" schools","Audit report on the quality of Charlottesville High School","There is a deed transferring the Jefferson School property to the City\n (January 23, 2002) as the \"Carver Recreation Center;\" a title search and\n a copy of the original deed of the Jefferson School Property (January\n 27, 1894 ;) and a history of Jefferson School for approval as a historic\n site. Included is a report about a conflict between the principal and\n teachers of Jefferson School.(1945)","There is information about the sale of Lane High School to Albemarle\n County for office space including the deed of sale. There is also a\n student's request for grades and news clippings about the sale. There\n are also clippings from 1963 about the overcrowding at Lane.","School song; information and news clippings about William Holmes McGuffey\n and the \"McGuffey Readers;\" letter from Carrie C. Burnley to Mr. Henry\n Ford; letter from Dr. McGuffey's granddaughter; list of faculty at\n McGuffey; student certificates; and a description of the parade from\n Midway to the opening of McGuffey School.","There is an essay on crowded conditions (with a list of teachers and\n enrollment figures) at Midway and the development of the library.","There are miscellaneous songs and poems","There is a paper on the founding fathers and their independence by a\n student. There is correspondence from students in Brussels, France.\n There is also an explanation for why a student received a zero on his\n examination.","There are funeral programs and a news clipping about Walker's fifty years\n as a math teacher.","There are spelling lists, stories; lists of poems and values; calendars;\n illustrations of the University and Monticello; and history lessons.\n There is also a list of schools and teachers.","The illustrations are from paintings by Gayle Porter Hoskins and Frank E.\n Schoonover.","\"Sight Spans Space Over Wire by Television\" and \"Getting Set for South\n Africa's Greatest Diamond Rush\"","There is a typescript copy of \" Guyot's Geographical Primer.\"","There are letters and miscellaneous reports about salaries, summer school\n and tuition grants.","List of teachers and amounts deducted from salaries to pay for war\n bonds.","Included are photographs of the Reverend Henry B. Mitchell; [ ]\n Eberhardt; Grace Tinsley; J. A. \"Buddy\" Kessler; Elizabeth\n Bowers; Dale Metcalf; Richard Jennings; William J. Ellena;\n Charles Webb; Thomas McClernon; Guidance Services; Marvin\n Sutphin; Lane High School Band; Board meetings; Charlottesville\n High School; Venable Elementary School; Burnley-Moran Elementary\n School; Greenbrier Elementary School; Jackson-Via Elementary\n School; Johnson Elementary School; Buford Middle School; and\n Walker Middle School.","James Harry Michael, Jr., Booker T. Reaves, J. A. Kessler, Jr,\n Grover W. Forloines, Hovey S. Dabney, Marvin C. Sutphin, Thomas\n J. Michie, Jr., and Betty B. Glass.","There is a deed in which the Freedmen's Bureau, [The Bureau of\n Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands], transferred the Delevan\n building. There is also an interpretation of the intended use of\n Delevan as a school (1893)","Charlottesville School Township wanted to purchase a parcel of land\n located on the southern suburbs of Charlottesville (property had\n liens on it)","Deed for parcel of land \"known as Midway\"","Agreement that Charlottesville City School would instruct County\n Students for the School Session 1910 through 1916 for a fee.","Opinion reveals the history of Charlottesville and the Courthouse and\n McKee property.","There is a Title investigation and approval for purchase of land\n between Jefferson and Market Street by the Charlottesville School\n Board.","Purchase of land for McGuffey School and abstracts of titles going\n back to 1863. There is also some correspondence from a tenant of the\n Patterson Property.","Deed for land sold [through the Trader's Land Company] for thirteen\n hundred and seventy five dollars.","Resolution was passed by the Charlottesville School Board for the\n City to be the trustee for certain property until the School Board\n could afford to pay for them.","Deed is for a plat of land situated near Preston Heights and was sold\n [through the Trader's Land Company] for two thousand, five hundred\n dollars.","Preston Heights property (eleven parcels of land) purchased [for\n Venable School]. There is also a deed between Helen A. Woods and\n Willie Love for the purchase of certain plats in the Preston Heights\n property by Willie Love (lien) and a deed from Willie and Elizabeth\n Love to the Charlottesville School Board.","Deed is for a plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company]\n situated on Preston Heights property for ten thousand five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a plat of land situated near the University of Virginia on\n Thirteenth Street sold [through the Traders Land Company] for six\n hundred and twenty five dollars.","Deed for a plat of land in the northwestern part of Charlottesville\n sold to the City for nine hundred dollars.","Deed for purchase of land in the northwestern part of the City of\n Charlottesville sold to the City for fourteen hundred and twenty\n five dollars.","Deed for plat of land sold [through the Traders Land Company] for\n four hundred dollars and situated on the south side of Spruce\n Street.","Deed for land on the north side of Page Street sold to the City for\n two hundred and fifty dollars.","Title of Abstracts for land owned by Lewis Barber, Willie and\n Elizabeth Love, John W. Fishburne and Lilie S. Dinwiddie and deed of\n purchase from the City of Charlottesville to the Charlottesville\n School Board [for Venable School]","Deed for land situated on Preston Heights for seven thousand two\n hundred and twelve dollars and forty five cents.","Deed for parcel of land located at the Northeast corner of the\n intersection of Fifth Street N. W. and Commerce Street as an\n addition to the Jefferson School for a price of twenty five hundred\n dollars.","Deed for a parcel of land on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest\n for a sum of fifteen hundred dollars for an addition to the\n Jefferson School","Land purchased by the School Board for an addition to the Jefferson\n School located on the East side of Fifth Street Northwest for twenty\n two hundred and fifty dollars","There are two agreements that the Charlottesville Schools would\n instruct the children from Albemarle County Schools for an agreed\n price.","Deed of purchases from Florence R. and Arthur M. 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