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Ivy Site

Other nearby areas also had
problems. The year-long dispute
over an Ivy site flared anew today
(November 18, 1959). White
residents of Ivy, complaining that
the site selected by the Albemarle
School Board is a predominantly
white section, announced that they
asked for an injunction... to stop
construction." The principal
objection was that the action taken
by the School Board and State
Board of Supervisors "under the
threat of integration of county
schools" would "lend itself to the
integration of a white section." The
article explained that white live on
one side of the tracks (C&O), and
Negroes on the other.

October 11, 1962, "In the wake
of yesterday's federal hearing on
the suit of Hazel R. Adams, who
claimed to have been discriminated
against as a Negro in her attempt to
enter the University's Patrick Henry
branch college, officials there have
said that they are disappointed and
disturbed that the University
presented no vigorous opposition at
court to her admittance." It was
time for the branch colleges to find
out what the Charlottesville group
knew you can't win with
in the courts. There
were Black undergraduates here by
then.