In the meeting, Head Librarian Jane Maud Campbell recommends closure of the Dunbar Branch and the board votes to explore transfer of the branch to the Lynchburg City Schools. ]]>
In the letter, Spencer resigns from her position as librarian of the Dunbar Branch at Dunbar High School.

While the letter is dated March 14, 1946, the envelope is postmakred several weeks later on April 7, 1946.]]>
In the letters, Campbell requests assistance of a librarian from Louisville to travel to Lynchburg to set up the new Dunbar Branch at Dunbar High School. The Dunbar Branch was the first public library branch in Lynchburg to offer services to black residents.

In the responses, Settle agrees to send Rachel Davis Harris. Harris then writes of her travel arrangements. Campbell advises Harris on accomodation in Lynchburg and notes that Anne Spencer is a candidate for the position of Dunbar Branch librarian.

In February 1924, Campbell seeks to extend Harris' stay in Lynchburg, Settle agrees to an extension. Campbell then thanks Settle for Harris' work in Lynchburg.]]>
The first letter is from Julia Ideson, librarian at the Houston Public Library, to Jane Maud Campbell, librarian at Jones Memorial Library. In the letter Ideson requests Campbell's participation in a survey about library services to blacks.

The second letters is from Campbell to Ideson, reporting that Lynchburg does not yet provide public library services to black residents.]]>
CORRECTION 3/1/2024: Per Brenda Mitchell-Powell's book, "Public in Name Only", full integration of the Alexandria (VA) Library occurred in 1962, not 1950]]>
This item is part of Jones Memorial Library Manuscript Collection 1396, the Dunbar High School Library Papers.]]>
The postcard is alluding to the segregated services of Patterson Drug Store in Lynchburg, Virginia. The store had been the site of a December 1960 sit-in by students at Randolph College, protesting the racial segregation of the drugstore's restaurant services.]]>
Clippings cover swimming pools, swimming instruction, pool construction and maintenance, swimming contests, drowning victims, rescue services, and the racial desegregation and integration of swimming pools during the Civil Rights era in Lynchburg.]]>