ODU Libraries Offers New Digital Collection of School
Desegregation Materials The Old Dominion University Libraries
have a new digital collection, "School Desegregation in Norfolk,
Virginia," documenting the "massive resistance" to desegregation
following the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, which
led to the closing of six Norfolk public schools and left 10,000
students out of school. The Web site is available at
http://www.lib.odu.edu/special/schooldesegregation "School
Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia" provides access to nearly
3,000 pages of primary source documents, including
correspondence, news articles, reports, speeches and legal
papers. Oral history interviews with some of the major figures
of the time, including Vivian Carter-Mason, Ruth James and ODU
Professor Emeritus Robert Stern, are also included. A special
feature of the Web site is a tribute to the Norfolk 17, the 17
African-American students who entered six previously all-white
middle and high schools that had been closed by ord