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This oral history project accompanys and is used extensively for the "A Better Life for Their Children: Julius Rosenwald, Booker T. Washington, and the 4,978 Schools that Changed America" exhibit, which will be on display in the Virginia Museum of History & Culture from May 2024 until April 2025. The exhibit and the oral history project examine the legacy of Julius Rosenwald and Booker T. Washington co-creating schools in the American South to educate Black children otherwise exluded from the public school system due to segregation laws. The oral history project consists of interviews with former pupils of Rosenwald schools in Virginia.

The Society for the College records contains materials related to 2007's Wren Cross Controversy, or the decision to remove and then replace, the brass cross from William & Mary's Wren Chapel. Four yellow buttons with green lettering read: "One College, Under Glass" with a cross, feathers, and thinking man statue in silhouette, "The New William & Mary." Also included is one package of green napkins wrapped in cellophane, with "End of an Error" printed in gold.

Three College of William and Mary mathematics notebooks, an envelope, and an invitation to lunch for Miss Patricia Damon King from the college President.

Photographs, slides, and administrative records for The Flat Hat newspaper. Collection also includes digital media and 21 boxes of issues of the newspaper filed chronologically.

The collection includes various local and national UE 150 and 160 local union records. Materials include convention programs, proceedings, steward guides, workplace complaints, handwritten notes.

The collection is comprised of the personal papers of William & Mary alumnus of 1940, Virginia Forwood Pate. The materials in the collection relate to Pate's active involvement with class of 1940 alumni activities, mainly the Society of the Alumni, the class of 1940 fiftieth reunion, the class of 1940 merit scholarship. Also included in the collection is general correspondence, issues of the Parcel Print, newsclippings related to William & Mary, and a vinyl record recording of a 1959 performance by the William & Mary Choir.