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Highlighting Special Collections

Cartoon as it appeared in the Powelton Post, a neighborhood newsletter in Philadelphia, PA. Uncle Sam's democracy asleep by Virginia Tyack, 1962. Edward H. Peeples Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools Collection, VCU Libraries.

There are a number of Special Collections at VIVA member institutions preserving the history of educational desegregation in Virginia. The Virginia Black History Archives at VCU includes the "Black Richmonders' Experience with School Segregation and Desegregation: An Oral History of Education Project at Virginia Commonwealth University" -- transcripts of fourteen oral history interviews with Richmond area residents, including college professors, former teachers and students discussing their experiences with educational segregation and integration in Virginia. The Edward H. Peeple Prince Edward County (Va.) Public Schools Collection, which explores the history of the Prince Edward County school segregation issues of the 1950s and 1960s, is also housed at VCU.

The Desegregation of Virginia Education (DOVE) project is a cooperative effort between Old Dominion University and Virginia Commonwealth University. DOVE was created to identify, locate, catalog and encourage the preservation of records that document Virginia’s school desegregation process. The scope of the project is records related to the desegregation of public and private schools in Virginia, grades K-12 and institutions of higher education. The time span is mid-1940s to 1986. Papers, photographs, existing oral histories, newspapers and audio-visual materials are included.