Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE) Project

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 would be 1945 – 1986. Papers, photographs, existing oral histories, newspapers and audio-visual materials will be 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.

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Project Description

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To hear more about DOVE, please join us at our next general meeting:

Monday, November 16, 2009
Farmville, Virginia

Meeting: 11 AM – 3 PM 
Tour of R. R. Moton School: 3 – 4 PM
Greenwood Library, Room 147A/B
Longwood University

Directions/campus map: http://www.longwood.edu/directions.htm

 

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Meeting Minutes

• 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

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DOVE Regional Task forces, chairs and repositories to survey

Contact the co-chair:

Sonia Yaco syaco [at] odu.edu Special Collections Librarian Old Dominion University

Revised: 11/3/09