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Tutoring project
Projects started to tutor Alexandria city school kids in addition to the Hopkins House programs
Sit-in at Lunch Counter
Civil rights sit-in by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody at Woolworth's lunch counter. People pour sugar, ketchup and mustard on them in protest
Sarah Patton Boyle
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"Dyed-In-Wool" Southerner On Civil Rights
Student description of the Sunday night program guest speaker Mrs. Sarah Patton, speaking about civil rights in Pendleton Hall.
1968 letter to parents announcing integration at EHS
Headmaster Hoxton writes letter to the parents and students announcing the integration of EHS.
Memo to the Board Announcing Acceptance March 1968
Board of Trustees Memo about the admission of two African American students in 1968.
"Only in America"
This is a poem in the Daemon from 1969. It is about arbitrary things that occur in America.
Courage at the Greensboro Lunch Counter
After being refused service at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s, four African-American men launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America.
Greensboro Four
David Richmond (from left), Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil leave the Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C., where they initiated a lunch-counter sit-in to protest segregation, Feb. 1, 1960
Headmaster Outlines Admissions Policy
Article stating recent change in admissions policy made by the board of trustees and head of school, specifically regarding the integration of African American students into the school. Author Jim Beckwith weighs the short term effects integration…