The bulk of the material concerns the desegregation of Norfolk, Virginia's public schools. There is some material on the Gray Commission Report (1955-1956), much more on the Norfolk Committee for Public Schools, an organization in which Dr. White was active from 1958 to 1963. The latter material includes correspondence, publicity releases, financial records, and newspaper clippings. There are small amounts of material on the 1952 Byrd-Miller Democratic Senatorial primary and on the 1961 Citizens for Democratic Government campaign in Norfolk's Democratic primary.
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Dr. Forrest P. White
Gift. Accession #A76-12
Second accession: 1/23/1980
[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
Dr. Forrest P. White was born in Norfolk in 1920. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College and the Medical College of Virginia. He served his internship in the United States Navy (1945-1946) and then served in the Medical Corps of the United States Naval Reserve (1946-1947). He served his residency at the Medical College of Virginia Hospitals from 1948 to 1950 and became a practicing pediatrician in Norfolk, Virginia. Dr. White was active in local politics in Norfolk and played a central role in the formation and running of the Norfolk Committee for Public Schools, an organization which opposed the closing of that city's public schools during the desegregation crisis of the late 1950's and early 1960's. He died on March 26, 1995 at his home in Norfolk.
Note written by James F. Walsh
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 1, Virginia Politics: Democratic Senatorial Contest; General Election, 1952, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 2, School Desegregation: Gray Commission Report; Miscellaneous Material, 1955-1956, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 3, School Desegregation: Gray Commission Report, Newspaper Clippings, 1955-1956, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 4, General Correspondence, 1958-1962, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 5, Official Communications, 1958-1963, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 6, Financial Records: Correspondence re. Finances, 1958-1963, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 7, Financial Records: Invoices; Miscellaneous Bills; Bank Account Records, 1958-1960, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 8, Financial Records: People Contacted for Contributions; Records re. Contributions, 1958-1960, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 9, Checks, Deposit Slips, undated, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 10, Membership Cards, undated, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 11, Essays re. Massive Resistance in Norfolk and Prince Edward County, Virginia, undated, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 12, "Organizing to Save Public Schools" - Virginia Committee for Public Schools, undated, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 13, Miscellaneous Material, 1958-1961, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 14, Perrow Report to Governor of Virginia, 1959, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 1, Folder 15, Involvement in Barfield, Shepheard Races for City Council, 1960, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 1, Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings, circa 1950-1957, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 2, Newspaper Clippings re. School Crisis, 1958, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 3, Newspaper Clippings re. School Crisis, 1958, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 4, Newspaper Clippings re. Massive Resistance and Norfolk School Closings, 1958, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 5, Newspaper Clippings re. School Crisis, 1959, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 6, Misc. Newspaper Clipings re. School Crisis, 1959, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 7, Newspaper Clippings re. Norfolk Schools Reopened, undated, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 8, Newspaper Clippings re. Massive Resistance, Norfolk School Closings, Gov. J. Lindsay Almond, 1958-1964, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 9, Letters to the Editor re. Norfolk School Closings, 1958-1959, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 10, Letters to the Editor, Statements, 1958-1959, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 11, Paid Advertisements, 1958-1959, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 12, Virginia Committee for Public Schools: Official Communications, 1959-1960, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 13, Citizens for Democratic Government (Norfolk): Miscellaneous Material, 1961, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 14, Look, "The South vs. The Supreme Court", 3 April 1956, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.
[Identification of item and date], Box 2, Folder 15, Mrs. Edith White - Correspondence - Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Nov. 1956, Forrest P. White Papers, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.