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DOVE LEAP

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DOVE (Desegregation of Virginia Education)
LEAP (Learning, Empowering and Preserving)

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Primary source matls on VA county that shut down schools for 5 yrs in face of #BrownvBoard. #massiveresistance A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia upress.virginia.edu/title/4274 via DOVE LEAP

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Yes, that's Harry Byrd, the one who designed systems for Virginia and other southern states to RESIST school desegregation. Though this article doesn't name BARBARA JOHNS, it refers to her as "the Virginia schoolgirl...involved in #BrownvBoard washingtonpost.com/local/virginia…

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Please come out to Tuckahoe Library on February 20th for this special lecture from Co-Chair Brian Daugherity #dovehistory

Please come out to Tuckahoe Library on February 20th for this special lecture from Co-Chair Brian Daugherity #dovehistory
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Pictures of Segregated Education On Saturday, February 29, 2019, please join the Historic Ashburn Colored School (HACS) for an event at Loudoun School for Advanced Studies (LSAS) to learn more about the history of segregated education in Virginia. evite.com/event/012DUGCB…

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DISCOVERY. 10,000 pages capture story of Loudoun County, Virginia’s all-black, rural schoolhouses between the end of the Civil War and desegregation in the 1970s..."probably the largest collection of black school records found anywhere in the nation..." wapo.st/2PikJzC

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Teachers! Apply by March 1. Eye-opening summer seminar on school desegregation in Virginia. Stipends available to you. Top experts in the field, historic sites, hear from the people who crossed color line -- or were shut out of school. sites.wp.odu.edu/thelongroadfro…

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Thanks, Bobbi Jackson C-SPAN Radio, for featuring personal stories on Virginians' experiences with desegregating the schools. These oral histories are part of DOVE Digital Collection at ODU VCULibraries ODU Libraries GMU c-span.org/video/?469083-…...

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DOVE is a proud sponsor of #TIMWebinarSeries. Register now for Tuesday, May 5th discussion of oral histories with 3 of Virginia's *Teachers in the Movement* -- from Lynchburg, Danville, Richmond. bit.ly/TIMWebinar_VAE…

DOVE is a proud sponsor of #TIMWebinarSeries. Register now for Tuesday, May 5th discussion of oral histories with 3 of Virginia's *Teachers in the Movement* -- from Lynchburg, Danville, Richmond. bit.ly/TIMWebinar_VAE…
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1963’s #ChildrensCrusade marchers Janice Kelsey and Melvin Todd find hope in today’s protests. Great interviews, you 2! Thanks to Janae Pierre and WBHM 90.3 FM for asking Kids in B'ham 1963 for our contacts as the reported today’s story. wbhm.org/feature/2020/c…

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“Stay loud, stand up for what’s right and keep standing until change comes,” said Janice Kelsey in today’s report on WBHM 90.3 FM “And it’s not going to be changed in a day or in one legislative act, this has a long way to go.” kidsinbirmingham1963.org/category/janic…

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Melvin Todd said, “We were not diverse at all during the ’60s,” he said. “We were just a bunch of poor black kids who wanted to see change. But today, the crowds are very diverse.” kidsinbirmingham1963.org/category/melvi…

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We're a co-sponsor at this years National Coalition on School Diversity. Join us Sept 25-26 in D.C Learn more ›› bit.ly/1h41g21

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Charles Ford: Been hard to teach of #schooldesegregation in Norfolk VA because story is complex and disappointing. Drawing links to today.