The Pulaski County School Board passed a resolution to comply with school desegregation effective August 31, 1966. The resolution stated that students would attend schools in areas based on geographical attendance zones regardless of their race.
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.
Twenty-five Black students sought attendance at Pulaski County high schools for the 1961-62 school year. Superintendent Frank Critzer stated most of the applications were from seventh grade students at Calfee Training School and Rich Hill Elementary…