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"WPA Hot Lunch Projects Offer Real Help For School Students"

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Detailing of the WPA hot lunch project's impact for school students including the Calfee Training School.

Tags: Calfee Training School, food, G. William Liverpool, Southwest Times, students, Works Progress Administration, WPA

"Hon. C. Bascom Slemp, Secretary to President, Interested in Calfee Training School"

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Secretary to President Calvin Coolidge, expresses interest in the Calfee Training School.

Tags: Calfee Training School, Governor E. Lee Trinkle, President Calvin Coolidge, Secretary C. Bascom Slemp, Southwest Times

"Fighting For School Equality"

Southwest Times, September 7th, 2022.pdf

A history of Calfee Training School and the fight for equalized education in Pulaski.

"Solution Seems No Nearer- Virginia Enters Second Month of Closed Schools"

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News story on the second month of school closings in Virginia, some by the Governor, after federal courts ordered Black students be admitted to white schools.

Tags: desegregation, Governor Lindsay Arnold Jr, Massive Resistance, NAACP, newspaper, Oliver Hill, Pulaski, school integration, Southwest Times, Thurgood Marshall, Virginia

"One Withdraws Name in Local School Suit"

Pulaski Southwest Times, Jan 31, 1960.pdf

Mrs. Hattie Eddie, mother of an eighth grade student, Sandra Patterson, withdraws her and her daughter's names from the integration case scheduled with the Virginia Pupil Placement Board.

Tags: A. Blair Scott, Andrew Farley, Beverly Randolph, Christiansburg Institute, education, Grayson County, Hattie Eddie, Hugh V. White, integration, newspaper, Pulaski, Pulaski High School, Sandra Patterson, schools, segregated schools, segregation, The Southwest Times, Virginia Pupil Placement Board

The Calfee Training School for Colored People

Tags: Calfee Training School, Chas. M. Thomas, R.H. Clarke, Southwest Times

"Open Forum - Urges Good Schools"

Open Forum Column Dr. PC Corbin 1938.pdf

Letter to the editor of the Southwest Times by Dr. P.C. Corbin expressing need for centralization of schools in the county and for funding for school building program.

Tags: athletic program, Calfee Training School, centralization of school, Dr. P.C. Corbin, equal facilities, facilities, funding, letter to the editor, newspaper, playground, Pulaski, school board, Southwest Times

"Colored News" May 26, 1939

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"Colored News" May 5, 1940

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"Colored News" - May 29, 1949

Updates and announcements happening in the African American community in Pulaski. Programs, Family matters, health, death announcements, travel/guest updates.

Tags: Anne Mae Toliver, Barren Spring, Bluefield, Christiansburg Industrial Institute, Clark's Chapel Methodist Church, Cpl. Brownie Crockett, D.C., Edwin Dillard, Fort Beningont, funeral, Georgia, hospital, James V. Curren, John Evans, Keystone, Mfs. F.D. johnson, Miss Helen Rasby, Mr and Mrs. Charles Allen. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Toliver, Mr. and Mrs. George Hogan, Mr. And Mrs. James Belcher, Mr. and Mrs. James Holland, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stith, Mr. and Mrs. Walter White, Mr. and Mrs. William Powell, Mrs. and Mrs. Charlie Carter, Mrs. Bristol Johnson, Mrs. Ellen Beverly, Mrs. Ethel Adams, Mrs. Etta Miller, Mrs. Ettie Clark, Mrs. Fannie Minnow, Mrs. Frank Redd, Mrs. Fred Patterson, Mrs. Hazel Reynolds, Mrs. Helent Crockett, Mrs. John Duncan, Mrs. Kate Carter, Mrs. Lucy Clark, Mrs. Thomas Johnson, Mrs. Willis Gravley, New Century Methodist Church, newspaper, Pinehurst Cemetery, Pulaski, Ralph Toliver, Rev. and Mrs. F. D. Johnson, Rev. J.D. Hawkins, Southwest Times, United Holy Church, Washington, West Virginia

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