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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…

Drawing of Otis Redding in the 1968 Fall Daemon

Student article exposing the fascist regime infiltrating the rightist movement of student led clubs of EHS. Created for entertainment.

A picture of a group of SNCC members in 1963

Articles from the Richmond Times Dispatch from the 1950s to the 1960s touching on massive resistance to integration. These articles cover multiple towns and countys within Virginia, and the political crisis of the time.

Two letters in The Chronicle evaluate race relations at EHS in 1968. The headmaster, A.R. Hoxton, Jr. asks the student body to accept the 2 incoming African American boys with the same dignity they accept any new students.

Image of the USS Bache aground off the coast of Rhodes, Greece.

A student-led personal interview with the first Japanese student to attend Episcopal, Takane Kuki.

Episcopal High School's head cook, an African-American, dies of a heart attack after a 17-year-long tenure in October of 1968.