DOVE (Desegregation of Virginia Education) was created to find, catalog, and encourage the preservation of records that tell the story of Virginia’s school desegregation process.
Hosted by Old Dominion University Libraries, DOVE is a…
Former slaves built the one-room schoolhouse. Parents, grandparents, and neighbors provided the materials and labor. They hired teachers, scraped together funds to purchase books and donated a piano and furnishings for the schoolroom.
Joseph Carpenter describes his experience attending the segregated Floris Colored School near Herndon. Carpenter walked five miles to school one way and was taught in one room with 39 other children.
At least 24 Black deaf students who attended a segregated school on the grounds of Gallaudet University in Washington, DC, in the early 1950s never received their high school diplomas.
Manassas Industrial School was founded in 1894 by once enslaved Jennie Dean to provide an industrial/vocational education for African American children. In 1938, surrounding counties began to pay for African American students to attend there. In…
In 1922 Archer became teacher and principal for a one-room segregated school in Vienna. Devoted to her students, she worked to improve their learning experience. She organized a Parent Teacher Association to raise funds for supplies and a new…
Robinson was a principal at both segregated and integrated schools in Fairfax County Public Schools. He worked under four superintendents and once was accused of being too nice to his teachers.
Coates was a teacher and principal in segregated schools in Fairfax County. She encouraged her students to take vocational courses and pursue higher education.
Mr. Pulley was an educator and a principal. In administration he coordinated Human Relations and was President of the Fairfax County Teachers Association. He was a member of several community and religious organizations also.
Manassas Industrial School began as a residential school for black children. In 1938, Fairfax, Fauquier, and Prince William counties established a regional high school on the campus. Fairfax County Black students, who wanted to attend high school…
Jennie Dean made secondary education possible for African Americans in Northern Virginia. Born enslaved in Loudoun County, Jennie Serepta Dean (April 15, 1848–May 3, 1913) became involved with education at about the age of 30 when she founded a…
Examples: Teacher Registers; Teacher examinations- colored and white; School census including students’ names, ages, education, and race; daily operations: attendance, studies taught; financial records, teachers’ pay; school expenses and repairs;…
School minutes record on December 5, 1939, that the School Board granted permission to install electricity in Pearson School with the understanding that the Board would not pay for the cost or…
Included in the history is information about county Rosenwald schools. Interview of William W. West who attended segregated schools and became a teacher, Vienna Colored School, Freedman’s School, and Odd Fellow Hall which was used as a school.
