DOVE: Preserving history and providing a guide to resources |
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DOVE, NAACP, AARP and Urban League Launch Traveling School Desegregation History Project
DOVE joined with AARP Virginia, Virginia Conference NAACP and Urban League of Hampton Roads, on March 14 in Richmond to kick off the project “School Desegregation: Learn, Preserve and Empower.”The initiative, which includes a traveling exhibit this spring to six commonwealth locales, is designed to encourage the preservation of records that tell the story of Virginia’s school desegregation – through firsthand accounts of people who experienced both the segregation and desegregation of Virginia’s public schools. For project information, see the DOVE blog. |
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The DOVE catalog lists relevant primary and secondary sources from repositories around the country. The repositories include local historical societies, university special collections, government repositories and public libraries.
Our catalog is updated as new material about school desegregation is discovered. Please check the site frequently in the months ahead for these resources. |
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Do you have any papers related to your role (as a student, a teacher, or an administrator) during the school desegregation era? Let us know! |
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About the DOVE project |
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| The DOVE project was created to identify, locate, catalog and encourage the preservation of 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 mid-1980s. Papers, photographs, newspapers and audio-visual materials are included. Oral histories done more recently about school desegregation are also sought. |
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| Learn more about DOVE |
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Virginia Libraries, Mapping the Desegregation of Education in Virginia: Where Are the Records?,
October/November/December, 2009
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The Virginian-Pilot, ODU archivist starting a catalogue of integration, May 26, 2009
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| Revised: 3/19/2012 |
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