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Louis Cousins Waits To Be Assigned to a Home Room at Maury
Photo from a Virginian-Pilot article: Races Mingle in Norfolk's Schools
Homeward Bound
Photo on front page of Virginian-Pilot
Two Negro Students Prepare to Enter Norview High
Photo accompanying article in Virginian-Pilot article:
Out-of-Town Newsmen Find Things Cool in Norfolk
Out-of-Town Newsmen Find Things Cool in Norfolk
Norview Junior High's Five Negro Students Came Together
Photo from Virginian-Pilot article: Out-of-Town Newsmen Find Things Cool in Norfolk
Reginald Young and Lolita Portis leaving Blair Junior High School with other students on the first day of school, February 2, 1959.
Photo accompanying Virginian-Pilot article: As Schools Reopened: In the Cold Air ... a Sense of Anticipation
Northside Teacher Excorts Pupil
Photo accompanying a Virginian-Pilot article
Virginians! (Flier from the State Referendum Information Center)
Political flier advocating for Virginia voters to vote for a special state convention in order to preserve segregation and the public school system.
Lester Banks, executive secretary of the Virginia NAACP, testifies at the General Assembly's hearing on public school integration, September 5, 1956 (1:10)
From Library of Virginia collection "Radio in Virginia" https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/radio/audio/Lester_Banks(clip).mp3