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"Teachers Remember One Room Black Schools"
Mrs. Mary Baker, Mrs. Maude Toler, and Mrs. T.G. Howard reminisce on their teaching experiences.
"Pulaski's Role in Civil Rights Discussed"
A recap of Margaret Edds' presentation to the Calfee Museum committee.
"Fighting For School Equality"
A history of Calfee Training School and the fight for equalized education in Pulaski.
"Do You Remember? Those years at Lockland Wayne
High School"
Lockland-Wayne High School alumni gathered recently to reminiscence about school days and their lives growing up in the Lincoln Heights and Lockland communities.
"Weigh 'Race Row' with Teachers"
Attorneys for the seven Black teachers and for the Lockland school board met in hopes of settling an integration dispute. When Wayne High School, a school for Black students, closed, seven teachers were reassigned to teach elementary school instead…
"Teachers Remember One Room Black Schools"
Mrs. Mary Baker, Mrs. Maude Toler, and Mrs. T.G. Howard remember their time teaching in one-room Black schools. Five out of seven schools for Black children were one-room schools: West Dublin, Draper Colored, Christian Hill, Little Creek Colored, and…
"Colored News" - September 2, 1951
Updates and announcements happening in the Black community in Pulaski. Programs, Family matters, health, death announcements, travel/guest updates. Of note: Photo and brief description of area teachers at Black schools meeting at Calfee to discuss…
"One Withdraws Name in Local School Suit"
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.
"Pulaski Hearing on Integration Now Confirmed"
Announcing the hearing scheduled with Virginia's Pupil Placement Board on February 4, 1960. The board would hear reasons why 18 Black students of Christiansburg Institute and their parents wanted to integrate with the all-white Pulaski High School.…