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Desegregation Of Virginia Education (DOVE) Project: A guide to resources
The DOVE project was created to identify, locate, catalog and preserve records that document Virginia’s school desegregation process. The scope of the project is records related to the desegregation of public and private schools in Virginia, grades K-12 and institutions of higher education. The time span is mid-1940s to 1986. Papers, photographs, existing oral histories, newspapers and audio-visual materials are included.
This would include:
- Governmental records: City Council/County Board minutes; school board minutes and administrative papers; school district correspondence with parents, city and county officials, Virginia Department of Education and Pupil Placement Board, decisional papers, legal advice and policy statements.
- Non-governmental records: teachers’ diaries, oral histories, records of informal tutoring groups that existed when public school were closed, organization papers of ad hoc citizen groups for and against Massive Resistance, papers of associations such as Virginia Education Association, Virginia State Teachers Association, Virginia Association of School Superintendents, Virginia School Boards Association.
Project Description
To hear more about DOVE, please join us at our next general meeting, tenatively scheduled for late January at College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia
Meeting: 9 AM – 12 PM
Training: 1 – 4 PM
Meeting Minutes
- November 16, 2009 Longwood University
- July 14, 2009 George Mason University
- May 12, 2009 Virginia State University
- March 2, 2009 Washington and Lee University
- November 18, 2008 Virginia Historical Society
- October 20, 2008 - Grants Subcommittee Old Dominion University
- September 30, 2008 Virginia Historical Society
- July 31, 2008 Virginia Historical Society
DOVE Regional Task forces, chairs and repositories to survey
Contact the co-chairs:
Brian Daugherity
bjdaugherity [ at] vcu.edu
Department of History
Virginia Commonwealth University
Sonia Yaco
syaco [at] odu.edu
Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist
Old Dominion UniversityRevised: 12/07/09
