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Transcript of Volume VII of the Trial Proceedings in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfok, Virginia school desgregation case; dated April 4, 1969. Proceedings include the discussion of the following exhibits: Minutes (administrative records) of Meetings, Documents relating to Norfolk Redevelopment and Housing Authority, Newspaper articles, Press releases, and Capacity figures.

Transcript of Volume X of the Trial Proceedings in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case; dated May 9, 1969. The proceedings include the testimony of the Edwin L. Lamberth, Superintendent of Norfolk Public Schools.

Transcript of Volume III of the Trial Proceedings in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case; dated May 7, 1969. Proceedings include the testimony of John C. McLaulin, Director of the Department of Educational Research and Development for the Norfolk School Board, and the following exhibits: Map overlays, Norfolk school proposal, projected Elementary School Desegregation, and the Estimated Requirements for Transportation of Pupils.

Transcript of Volume II of the Trial Proceedings in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case; dated October 09, 1969. Proceedings include the testimony of Dr. Gordon Foster.

Transcript of Volume IV of the Trial Proceedings in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia school desegregation case; dated October 11, 1969. Proceedings include the testimony of Dr. Michael J. Stolle.

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.

Letter to the Honorable W. Farley Powers, Jr., Clerk for the United States District Court, from Leonard H. Davis, Norfolk City Attorney, requests that Powers file a report concerning the Beckett school desegregation case entitled, Report of the School Board of the City of Norfolk Pursuant to Paragraph Numbered 2 of the Order of the Court Entered on January 9, 1970.

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.

Brief for the School Board in the Carlotta Mozelle Brewer, et al., Appellants, v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk, Virginia, et al., Appellees school desegregation case. The brief defends the Norfolk School Board's desegregation plan and states that the busing of pupils away from their neighborhood schools can be effectively implemented only if the school to which pupils are assigned is "sufficiently attractive and educationally effective." Brief also states that children tend to do better in a middle milieu and to provide a middle class milieu in Norfolk, a school must have a clear majority of white students.

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

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.

Three-page statement of Vincent J. Thomas, Chairman of the Norfolk School Board, presented before the Mayor and City Council of Norfolk on July 27, 1970 about the School Board's new plan of desegregation to be implemented in September, 1970. Thomas states that the School Board believes that the Constitution does not the racial balance of a school system nor does it require widespread busing to achieve such a racial balance. Thomas also states that the School Board's plan provides for the assignment of faculty to achieve an approximate racial balance in all schools, the integration of Booker T. Washington High School to reflect a student body of approximately 50% white and 50% black, the further integration of elementary and junior high schools, and a free majority to minority system-wide transfer plan.

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.

Letter to Harry N. Gustin from Calvin H. Childress, Attorney at Law, opposes forced busing of elementary school children and requests that an effort be made to file a Petition for Certiorari in the Supreme Court.

Letter to Louis C. Allen, Jr., Attorney at Law, from Alan G. Donn, Attorney at Law, states that Donn has enclosed a copy of a brief filed with the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Brewer case. Donn also states that the School Board's petition for a writ of certiorari was denied by the United States Supreme Court on June 29, 1970.

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