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Board Stops Construction
Other nearby areas also had
problems. The year-long
dispute over an Ivy site flared
anew November 18,
1959. White residents of Ivy,
complaining that the site
selected by the Albemarle
School Board was 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
whites live on one side of the
tracks (C&O), and Negroes on
the other.
On October 11, 1962, The
Cavalier Daily reported, in the
wake of the 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 segregation in the courts.
There were black
undergraduates here by then.
On October 17, 1962, The
Cavalier Daily reported that
Miss Adams withdrew after one
day of classes. "She was not
spoken to by any of her fellow
students. The Martinsville
paper reported that Miss
Adams' classmates 'couldn't
care less' about her." On the
same page an article appears on
the meaning of University
traditions. One student, voicing
opinions typical of those
interviewed, said, "Tradition to
me means all that the
University stands for...The
University wouldn't be as great
as it is now if we didn't have
traditions such as wearing coats
and ties."
Three years ago there was
much activity in February and
March and April promoted by
the Coalition, a group of
students concerned about the
tiny percentage of the student
body which was black,
about the atmosphere here
which continued to be
indifferent when not hostile to
our token blacks, and about
the startling lack of effort
which the University was
expending to attract black
students to the University and
to make the University
attractive to blacks.
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