Object Type: Folder
In Folder: Box 01
Resolution adopted by the Norfolk City Council requesting Governor Stanley to call a Special Session of the General Assembly to create a public school policy.
1956-05
Per Curiam opinion in the School Board of the City of Norfolk, et al v. Leola Pearl Beckett, et al school segregation case. The judges decided the Norfolk School Board cannot refuse to admit plaintiffs to any school solely on account of race or color.
1957-07-13
Handwritten note regarding the number of copies of the 1950 Virginia School Law and of the 1952 Supplement sent to an unnamed person.
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Handwritten note concerning the Beckett v. the School Board of the City of Norfolk school desegregation case.
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Court order demanding Norfolk School Board members appear in the Circuit Court of the City of Norfolk on August 13, 1958.
1958-08-07
Subpoena in Chancery for the Coley v. City School Board of the City of Norfolk.
1958-08-07
Bill of Complaint for Injunction in the Coley v. City School Board of the City of Norfolk.
1958-08-07
Order by Judge Hoffman that no action be taken with respect to plaintiffs motion filed on May 12, 1958.
1958-06-07
Order issued by Judge Hoffman in the Becket v. the School Board for the City of Norfolk that the defendants motion to dismiss will be argued in the United States District Court at Norfolk on November 17, 1956.
1956-09-07
Letter concerning the Pupil Placement Board.
1957-01-02
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.
1958-06-12
Letter discussing the state's responsibility to honor the contracts of cafeteria and custodial workers if Norfolk's public schools are closed by the state.
1958-07-24
Letter to J. J. Brewbaker from Norfolk attorney, Leigh Williams in which Williams tells Brewbaker he is enclosing a copy of the per curiam opinion of the Fourth Circuit in the Leola Pearl Beckett school segregation case.
1957-07-16
Letter to J. J. Brewbaker, Superintendent of Schools from Leigh D. Williams, Attorney, affirming that a copy of Judge Hoffman's Order in the Beckett case had been sent to J. J. Brewbaker.
1956-09-11
Letter to J. J. Brewbaker, Superintendent of Schools from Leigh D. Williams, Attorney, affirming that a copy of the Acts of the General Assembly enacted at the 1956 Special Session had been sent to J. J. Brewbaker.
1956-11-06
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.
1958-06-27
Letter concerning the Beckett v. the Norfolk School case. Williams notifies Brewbaker that he has enclosed a copy of a court order.
1957-07-23
Letter of appreciation to J. J. Brewbaker, Superintendent of Schools, from Leigh D. Williams, Attorney
1956-05-02
Letter to J. J. Brewbaker, Superintendent of Schools, from Leonard H. Davis, City Attorney, discussing the Order entered by the judges in the Beckett v. the School Board of the City of Norfolk Case.
1957-07-23
Letter to J. Lindsay Almond, Jr., Attorney General from Leigh D. Williams, regarding the trial date for the Beckett v. the School Board for the City of Norfolk case.
1956-09-07
Letter thanking Williams for sending Brewbaker a copy of per curiam opinion of the Fourth Circuit in the Beckett segregation case.
1957-07-26
Letter concerning fan mail, to Leigh D. Williams, Attorney, from J. J. Brewbaker, Superintendent of Schools
1957-02-25
Letter to Leigh Williams, Attorney for J. J. Brewbaker, Superintendent of Schools, discussing a telephone conversation that J. J. Brewbaker had with Warren T. White, Superintendent of Schools in Dallas, Texas.
1958-01-10
Letter regarding attorney Victor Ashe's wishes to take discovery depositions in the Beckett v. The School Board of the City of Norfolk case.
1961-08-08
