Massive Resistance Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
Old Dominion University
3023 Patricia W. and J. Douglas Perry Library
Old Dominion University
4427 Hampton Blvd
Norfolk, VA 23529
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Jessica Ritchie
Phone: (757) 683-4483
Fax: (757) 683-5954
Restrictions:

The collection is open to researchers without restrictions.

Terms of access:

Before publishing quotations or excerpts from any materials, permission must be obtained from Special Collections and University Archives, and the holder of the copyright, if not Old Dominion University Libraries.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Massive Resistance Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.

Summary

Extent:
0.80 Linear Feet and 2 Hollinger document cases boxes
Creator:
Yaco, Sonia (1957-)
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Box [insert number], Folder [insert number and title], Massive Resistance Collection, Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries.

Background

Scope and content:

The collection consists of copies of regional and national newspaper clippings covering the "Massive Resistance" movement and public reaction to the desegregation and subsequent closing of some of Norfolk's public schools. Also discussed are state and local politicians such as Governor Lindsay Almond, Jr., who ordered the closing the Norfolk schools that enrolled African American students, and Mayor William Fred Duckworth, who opposed the desegregation of the public schools. Some of the clippings discuss the fate of those students whose graduation was put in jeopardy by the school closing, known as "The Lost Class of '59."

Acquisition information:
Various gifts.
Processing information:

The finding aid was created by Sonia Yaco, Special Collections Librarian, in 2013.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard