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 file includes photos and clippings from Jones Memorial Library file NA0056. There are 113 clippings and photos in the file. Some photos do not include a clipping.

Jones Memorial Library holds the copyright for the digital reproductions. The Lynchburg News & Advance, writer of record, and photographer of record hold the copyright for the original photographs and captions.]]>
The interior page includes a photograph, second from the top, showing the Dunbar High School library in 1953-1954.

A physical copy of the yearbook is held at the Jones Memorial Library in Lynchburg, Virginia.]]>
The printed newsletter is part of Jones Memorial Library' s pamphlet collection ]]>
In the manuscript, the author provides clarifications about the history of Dunbar High School and the Dunbar Branch library that operated at the high school in the 1900s. ]]>
Dunbar High School served "colored" students in the city during the Jim Crow era of racial segregation. Jones Memorial Library established a branch library in the high school building in 1924. ]]>
In the correspondence, Dickerson notes that Jones Memorial Library is donating books to the Dunbar High School Library. At the time, Dunbar High School Library provided services to "colored" residents of the city.

In the series of exchanges, city officials seek information about library services for "the use of the colored people in the City of Lynchburg."

Included with the correspondence is a list of libraries in the city and which racial populations they serve and a letter from the Lynchburg City Manager to the League of Virginia Municipalities, requesting information about library statistics in the state.]]>
The school is located at 1730 Seabury Avenue and is named in honor of William Marvin Bass, former teacher and principal. The building was completed in 1951.

Images come from a notebook collection of school photographs with construction details entitled " Lynchburg Public Schools Data" and from a framed drawing of the school.]]>