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Announcing resolution of the school board to place 17 students thereby integrating Norfolk schools. Includes "Copy of Letter Sent to Parents of the Seventeen Pupils Assigned by the School Board at a Meeting on September 27, 1958."

Gives explanation of the actions and intentions of the Norfolk City School Board to comply with the order of the court to integrate and why it is in the best interests of the city and its citizens to defer integration for another year.

Approves reasons for denying the applications for enrollment of the remaining 134 Negro children in white schools and explains the reasoning behind the decision.

A list of school officials and other individuals subpoenaed to appear in court on August 18, 1958.

Supporting statistics related to the attendance, number and value of buildings, salaries, and cost per pupil of white and Negro schools from 1936 to 1956.

List of plaintiffs in Leola Pearl Becket v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk including name of student, name of parents, address, present school, and closest school.

Confirmation of the judgment of the U.S. District Court in Leola Pearl Becket, et al, versus the School Board of Norfolk, et all resolving that 17 Negro students be assigned to formerly white schools.

Proposed resolution to set assignment standards, criteria for application, and procedures for application.

Resolution revises amendments to the assignment procedures set forth in the July 17, 1958 Resolution adopting standards, criteria, and procedures relating to the assignment of pupils to Norfolk public schools. The July 17, 1958 Resolutions is attached.

Resolution sets assignment standards, criteria, and procedures along with a deadline for applications for Negro students applying to attend previously all white schools, or from a white school to a previously all Negro school.

Extrapolates on deadline of May 31, 1959 for submitting applications for transfers to schools in the City of Norfolk and stipulations for cases involving unusual circumstances. Also sets out options for the eight Negro students denied admission to Norview Elementary School for 1958-59 on the grounds of "too frequent transfers."

Decree in the Becket v. the School Board of the City of Norfolk court case strikes down the Pupil Placement Act and that Norfolk School Board abolish pupil assignments based on race by August 15, 1957.

Letter to J. J. Brewbaker, Superintendent of Schools, and Paul Schweitzer, School Board Chairman, from Leonard H. Davis, City Attorney, notifying J. J. Brewbaker and Paul Schweitzer that a copy of the transcript proceedings for the Atkins and Beckett school desegregation cases has been to each of them.

Transcript of proceedings for two school desegregation cases in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Letter thanking Leonard Davis for sending Brewbaker a copy of the transcript proceedings for the Atkins and Beckett cases.

Letter informing Brewbaker and Schweitzer that a copy an order entered by Judge Hoffman in Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk has been sent to them.

Order by Judge Hoffman that no action be taken with respect to plaintiffs motion filed on May 12, 1958.

Letter to Leonard H. Davis, City Attorney from Walter W. Brewster, Clerk of the School Board, concerning materials requested by Norfolk City Attorney, Leonard Davis from the School Board including the original petition to the School Board by attorney, Victor Ashe on behave of the petitioners in the Beckett v. The School Board case.

Letter notifying Schweitzer and Brewbaker that the attorneys for the plaintiffs in Beckett v. the School Board of the City of Norfolk segregation case would move the Judge to enter an order relating to the decision in the case.

Summons for the defendants in the Leola Pearl Beckett, et al, v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, and J. J. Brewbaker, Division Superintendent of Schools of the City of Norfolk, Virginia