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Copy of CURRENT Integration of Libraries and Schools in VA (18 x 36 in).pdf
Visual timeline with key dates for integration of public libraries and schools in Virginia in the 1900s.

CORRECTION 3/1/2024: Per Brenda Mitchell-Powell's book, "Public in Name Only", full integration of the Alexandria (VA) Library occurred in…

19230612 Commencement Exercises Dunbar High School.cover.jpg
Scanned reproduction of four page program for commencement exercises at Dunbar High School in Lynchburg, Virginia in 1923. Dunbar High School opened in 1923 and this program is for the first graduating class.

INDEX to Dunbar High School clippings News & Advance Photos.xlsx
The Dunbar High School clippings include digital reproductions of photos and captions from the Lynchburg News & Advance in the 1900s. The original photos are kept in physical format at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.

This file…

Front cover of The Dunbarian 1954 yearbook.jpg
Digital scan of the front cover and an interior page from the 1954 issue of The Dunbarian yearbook for Dunbar High School in Lynchburg, Virginia.

The interior page includes a photograph, second from the top, showing the Dunbar High School…

The Fifty-Niners Chronicle Vol 7 No 4 Oct-Dec 2017.jpg
Biographical sketch of former Dunbar High School librarian Susan Elizabeth Fain Davis from page one of The Fifty-Niners Chronicle, Quarterly Newsletter of Dunbar High School Class of 1959, Volume 7, No. 4, October-December 2017.

The printed…

JMLPAM1206.The Dunbar High School Story by Chauncey Spencer.pdf
Digital reproduction of a typed manuscript entitled "The Dunbar high School Story!!" by Chauncey E. Spencer. The original manuscript is held at Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia as PAM1206.

In the manuscript, the author provides…

Dunbar Front Elevation.pdf
Digital reproduction of set of four architectural plans for the 1921 construction of Dunbar High School in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Dunbar High School served "colored" students in the city during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Jones Memorial…

MS1396.0127-11195.Folder6.JPG
Digital reproduction of correspondence between the City of Lynchburg, Virginia and Lucille Dickerson for the period 25 March 1947 to 28 September 1948.

In the correspondence, Dickerson notes that Jones Memorial Library is donating books to the…

JML.William Marvin Bass School rendering by Stanhope Johnson.2.jpg
Images of the William Marvin Bass School in Lynchburg, Virginia from the collections of the Jones Memorial Library.

The school is located at 1730 Seabury Avenue and is named in honor of William Marvin Bass, former teacher and principal. The…
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