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Sheila S. Coppage grew up in Norfolk, Virginia and attended Northside Middle School. She graduated from high school in 1967, and in 1975 began work for the Public School System of Norfolk. Sheila S. Coppage is interviewed about her experience with school desegregation. The interview took place in Hampton, Virginia.

Sheila S. Coppage grew up in Norfolk, Virginia and attended Northside Middle School. She graduated from high school in 1967, and in 1975 began work for the Public School System of Norfolk. Sheila S. Coppage is interviewed about her 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.

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.

Warren A. Stewart grew up in Norfolk, Virginia where he was in elementary school during the years of school desegregation. Warren A. Stewart is interviewed about his experience with school desegregation. The interview took place in Hampton, Virginia.

An unidentified lawyer or activist talks about the controversy regarding Norfolk school principal Satterfield (first name unknown). 0:01:16

Segment on some of the Norfolk 17 starting their first day of school at Norview Junior and Senior High Schools, as well as Granby High School and Northside Junior. Footage has no sound. 0:06:38

Memorandum to Henry L. Marsh, Walter W. Barnett, Charles K. Howard, Jr., William T. Mason, Jr., Victor J. Ashe, and J. Hugo Madison, Attorneys at Law, from Leonard H. Davis, Norfolk City Attorney, discusses the long-range integration plan for Norfolk schools.

Five-page integration proposal for Norfolk Public Schools. The plan calls for a unitary school system with "optimal" desegregation.

Letter to Toy D. Savage, Attorney at Law, and Leonard H. Davis, Norfolk City Attorney, from J. Harold Flannery, Deputy Director of the Office of Planning and Coordination, Department of Justice, discusses Norfolk's school desegregation proposal. Flannery states that the Department of Justice disagrees with various parts of the proposal including the amount of desegregation it would achieve at the elementary and junior high school levels and the plan's absence of specifics, such as a precise timetable for faculty desegregation.

Three-page Report of the School Board of the City of Norfolk in Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia. Report describes the results of the action taken beginning with the second semester of the 1969-1970 school year to fill classroom vacancies of predominately white elementary schools with Negro children from predominately Negro elementary schools.

Outline describes Norfolk principals' responsibilities concerning the desegregation of faculty and also a sensitivity program scheduled for the summer of 1970.

Summary of professional staff including administrators, principals, and teachers employed within the Norfolk Public School System for 1969-1970 and 1970-1971; classified by race.

Order entered in the Beckett/Brewer v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk school desegregation case. The United States District Court in obedience to the opinion of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, ordered that the defendants submit a plan for unitary schools on or before July 27, 1970. The order states that the plan may be based on the suggestions made by the Government's expert witness, Dr. Michael J. Stolee, or on any other method that may be expected to provide a unitary school system.

Five-page statement of Vincent J. Thomas, Chairman of the Norfolk School Board, presented before the Mayor and City Council of Norfolk on July 14, 1970. Thomas discusses the various problems of desegregation facing the Norfolk school system including Federal Court orders to desegregate all Senior High Schools and to achieve racial balancing of all faculties by the beginning of the next school year.

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.

Memorandum to E. L. Lamberth, Superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools, from Sam W. Ray, Jr., Assistant Superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools, lists the administrative transfers contemplated for the 1969-70 school year.

Report lists elementary school administrative transfers for the 1969-1970 school year.

Four-page report records the racial distribution of administrators and faculty for each public school in the City of Norfolk; dated September 29, 1969.