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Cecelia T. [Taliaferro] Tucker joined Old Dominion University in 1991 to serve as the Assistant to the President for Community Relations and continued to serve in community relations until her retirement in 2022. Prior to joining the university, she taught high school biology and then served numerous community organizations in leadership, public relations, and fundraising positions. She was born in Martinsville, Virginia. This interview is in two parts. Part 1 discusses her personal and educational background, her recollections of growing up African-American in segregated times, her experiences with civil rights, life in Norfolk in the 1950s and 1960s, and her career as a teacher and community activist. Part 2 focuses on her tenure at ODU as Assistant to the President for Community Relations and ODU's segregated past. The interview took place in Perry Library on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Cecelia T. [Taliaferro] Tucker joined Old Dominion University in 1991 to serve as the Assistant to the President for Community Relations and continued to serve in community relations until her retirement in 2022. Prior to joining the university, she taught high school biology and then served numerous community organizations in leadership, public relations, and fundraising positions. She was born in Martinsville, Virginia. This interview is in two parts. Part 1 discusses her personal and educational background, her recollections of growing up African-American in segregated times, her experiences with civil rights, life in Norfolk in the 1950s and 1960s, and her career as a teacher and community activist. Part 2 focuses on her tenure at ODU as Assistant to the President for Community Relations and ODU's segregated past. The interview took place in Perry Library on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Cecelia T. [Taliaferro] Tucker joined Old Dominion University in 1991 to serve as the Assistant to the President for Community Relations and continued to serve in community relations until her retirement in 2022. Prior to joining the university, she taught high school biology and then served numerous community organizations in leadership, public relations, and fundraising positions. She was born in Martinsville, Virginia. This interview is in two parts. Part 1 discusses her personal and educational background, her recollections of growing up African-American in segregated times, her experiences with civil rights, life in Norfolk in the 1950s and 1960s, and her career as a teacher and community activist. Part 2 focuses on her tenure at ODU as Assistant to the President for Community Relations and ODU's segregated past. The interview took place in Perry Library on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia.

Charlie Midgett grew up in Norfolk, Virginia and was in Vietnam during the years of school desegregation. Charlie Midgett is interviewed about his experience with school desegregation. The interview took place in Hampton, Virginia.

Charlie Midgett grew up in Norfolk, Virginia and was in Vietnam during the years of school desegregation. Charlie Midgett is interviewed about his experience with school desegregation. The interview took place in Hampton, Virginia.

Footage of Booker T. Washington High School protesting the poor conditions at their school, that included a failing heating system and undersized classrooms. The protest was led by members of the student council and the Norfolk chapter of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and took place in front of the Norfolk Public Schools administration building. Footage has no sound. B-roll/outtake footage. 0:00:32

Footage from a Norfolk School Board meeting regarding a new building for Booker T. Washington High School. Featured in the footage are superintendent Edwin L. Lamberth and school board member Vincent J. Thomas. Footage has no sound. B-roll/outtake footage. 0:01:18

Letter to Superintendent of Schools (E. L. Lamberth) from James B. Gregory opposing the "so-called busing system currently proposed between students of Lake Taylor and Booker T. Washington High Schools."

Letter to James B. Gregory from E. L. Lamberth, Superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools, thanking Gregory for his letter of May 8, 1969 concerning attendance plans for Norfolk Public Schools.

Report discusses the Norfolk School Board's school desegregation plan and the issues involved with the Board's plan to construct a new Booker T. Washington High School. (Document is difficult to read)

Two-page list of Norfolk School Board meeting highlights concerning Booker T. Washington High School from September 19, 1963 to June 2, 1967.

Notice to pupil and his/her parent or guardian from Albert P. Preston, Principal at Booker T. Washington High School, notifying students and parents that their choice of schools for the 1965-1966 school year has been approved by the Norfolk School Board and the notice should be presented to Booker T. Washington High School on September 3, 1965.

Letter from the Booker T. Washington High School Student Cooperative Association Executive Board, urging J. J. Brewbaker and other school administrators to comply with the latest Supreme Court ruling.

Letter from the faculty and staff of Booker T. Washington High School criticizing the Norfolk school board for having a tour and banquet for new school teachers in which only new white teachers were allowed to attend.

Letter from J. J. Brewbaker acknowledging the receipt of Mrs. Faulkner's letter of November 5, 1956.

Cecelia T. [Taliaferro] Tucker joined Old Dominion University in 1991 to serve as the Assistant to the President for Community Relations and continued to serve in community relations until her retirement in 2022. Prior to joining the university, she taught high school biology and then served numerous community organizations in leadership, public relations, and fundraising positions. She was born in Martinsville, Virginia. This interview is in two parts. Part 1 discusses her personal and educational background, her recollections of growing up African-American in segregated times, her experiences with civil rights, life in Norfolk in the 1950s and 1960s, and her career as a teacher and community activist. Part 2 focuses on her tenure at ODU as Assistant to the President for Community Relations and ODU's segregated past. The interview took place in Perry Library on the campus of Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. Interview recorded on Sony Digital Audio Recorder; audio quality is good. 0:42:38

Four-page Order in the Beckett, et al, v. the School Board of the City of Norfolk school desegregation case. The United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ordered that the defendant Norfolk School Board file a an objective timetable for faculty desegregation and a record of the progress in faculty desegregation for the 1967-68 school year. The Court also ordered a pretrial conference scheduled on December 27, 1968 to discuss the future of Booker T. Washington High School.

Two-page Plaintiff-Intervenor's Objections to Defendants Plan for Desegregation of the Public Schools of the City of Norfolk in Leola Pearl Becket, et als, Plaintiffs, and Carlotta Mozelle Brewer, et als, and the United States of America, Plaintiff-Intervenors, v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, et als, Defendants. The Plaintiff-Intervenors object to the continuation of the elementary and junior high school "freedom of choice" attendance system because the plan has not resulted in the elimination of the dual school system based on race. The Plaintiff-Intervenors also object to attendance zone boundary lines in the defendants plan and the proposed location of a new Booker T. Washington High School.

Letter to Norfolk City School Board from A Very Concerned Parent, objects to the plan to replace Booker T. Washington High School with a school on Tidewater Drive and also opposes mandatory busing.

Hand-written letter to Charles Perdue, Principal of Norview High School, from Elizabeth E. Robertson requesting that her son be transferred to Booker T. Washington High School.