The first report compiled by Dr. Leslie G. Carr and Dr. Donald Zeigler, who are both instructors at Old Dominion University. The report disputes Armor's claims that ending cross-town busing for elementary school students in Norfolk, would prevent...
Fifty-three page Brief for the Appellees in the Carlotta Mozelle Brewer v. the School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case.
Seventy-seven page transcript of a Pretrial Confenrence in the Beckett v. the School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case; dated April 2, 1969. The Pretrial Conference was before Judge Walter E. Hoffman and included...
Transcript of Volume III of the Trial Proceedings in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case; dated October 10, 1969. Proceedings include the depositions of Gordon Foster and Michael J. Stolle,...
A statement by Vincent J. Thomas, Chairman of the Norfolk School Board calling for sensible integration of Norfolk's schools. Vincent states that there should be a compromise between the detrimental effects of racial isolation and the detrimental...
Legal document, describing the plaintiffs' contesting of the defense's "white-flight" and "resegregation" arguments, in that the racial composition of the schools has been stable since 1980.
Legal document, describing the plaintiffs' contesting of the defense's "white-flight" and "resegregation" arguments, in that the racial composition of the schools has been stable since 1980.
Transcript of the closing argument of Toy D. Savage, Attorney for the Defendants, and the rebuttal argument of J. Harold Flannery, Attorney for the Plaintiff-Intervenors, and Henry L. Marsh, Attorney for the Plaintiffs, in the Beckett v. Norfolk...
Transcript of Volume VIII of the Trial Proceedings in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case; dated October 16, 1969. Proceedings include the testimonies of John Claude McLaulin, James Bash, and...
Armor, David J.; Berry, Sandy; Garfinkle, Jeff; Schwarzbach, Donna
Report compiled by David J. Armour, social sciences researcher for the Rand Corporation. This report argues the case to end cross-town busing for elementary school students and return to neighborhood schools. One of the main reasons to end...
Letter to Dear Dr. Ayars from Donald and Sally Miller criticizing the pupil assignment plan for Larchmont and Madison Elementary Schools and the 30-70 racial ratio proposed for Madison.
Report written by Lucy R. Wilson, Norfolk School Board member and Associate Vice-President for Academic and Graduate Affairs at Old Dominion University. The report reviews achievement scores of black and white children before and after busing. The...
Arthur B. "Bud" Metheny, Athletics Coach Emeritus, served as an athletics coach from 1948-1980. Metheny played professional baseball with the New York Yankees from 1943-1946. Metheny began his 32-year career with Old Dominion in 1948. He served...