Oral Histories
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The interviews below are excerpts from the film,
"Massive Resistance"; the 2000 Emmy Nominee of the Washington, D.C.
Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which was shown
nationally on PBS in February 2002 for Black History Month. The interview transcripts
are part of the "Civil Rights in U.S. and Virginia History" website.
This course examines the civil rights movement in U.S. and Virginia history from the
origins of segregation to the 1970s.
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Edwilda Allen Isaac was a student leader in the student strike of 1951 in
Prince Edward County, an event that led to Dorothy Davis v. Prince Edward County
School Board, one of the five cases decided in the Brown v. Board of
Education decision in 1954. View Video • Read Transcript |
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Vera Jones Allen worked for the Prince Edward County school system at the
time of the 1951 student strike. She is the mother of Edwilda Allen Isaac, who was a
student leader in the student strike of 1951 in Prince Edward County, an event that
led to Dorothy Davis v. Prince Edward County School Board, one of the five cases
decided in the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. View Video • Read Transcript | |
Calvin Nunnally was a student in Prince Edward County at the time of the
school closings. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
Oliver Hill was the N.A.A.C.P. lead attorney for Virginia and tried the
Davis v. Prince Edward case, as well as numerous other key civil rights cases in
Virginia. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
The Honorable J. Harry Michael served as a member of the school board in
Charlottesville, Virginia in the 1960s and is a lawyer and professor on the faculty
at the University of Virginia. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
A. E. Dick Howard served from 1962 to 1964 as a clerk for U. S. Supreme Court
Justice Hugo Black, during the period when the case of Griffin v. Prince Edward
County came before the court. He has served on the faculty of the University of
Virginia Law School, and served as the executive director of the Virginia Commission
on Constitutional Revision in 1968-69 when the constitution was amended to prevent
school closings. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
The Honorable D. B. Marshall was a founding member of the Charlottesville
Education Foundation in 1958, an organization to promote private segregated
academies as an alternative to integrated public schools. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
Hovey S. Dabney was a founding member of the Charlottesville Education
Foundation in 1958, an organization to promote private segregated academies as an
alternative to integrated public schools. Watch Video • Read Transcript |
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George Tremontain served as the Charlottesville Superintendent of Schools in
the mid-1960s. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
Raymond Bell served as the president of the Charlottesville Chapter of the
N.A.A.C.P. and worked actively on local efforts at desegregation and civil rights in
Charlottesville. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
Ruth Eggleston lived in Prince Edward County during the school closing crisis.
Her son Carl Eggleston was a student in middle school at the beginning of the
crisis. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
Carl Eggleston was a middle school student when schools were closed in Prince
Edward County in 1959. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
David F. Cooke served as the basketball head coach at Lane High School in
Charlottesville, Virginia, one of the schools that was closed in 1958 and was
integrated in 1959. Cooke coached the first integrated teams at Lane High School. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
Nancy Manson served as one of the organizing parents in Charlottesville of
the Parent's Committee for Emergency Schooling to provide students at Venable
Elementary and Lane High School with temporary education during the school closing
crisis in 1958-59. Watch Video • Read Transcript | |
Copyright William G. Thomas, III and Rector and Board of Visitors, University of Virginia.
All Rights Reserved. 2005. |
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