The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is the consortium of the nonprofit academic libraries within the Commonwealth of Virginia. Members include all of Virginia's state-assisted colleges and universities, as well as 33 private, nonprofit institutions and the Library of Virginia.
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Founded in 1960 and located in Petersburg, Richard Bland College of The College of William and Mary is the Commonwealth's only public junior college.
Highlighting Special Collections
School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia : a digital collection of the Old Dominion University Libraries
Four years after the Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, "massive resistance" to school desegregation in Virginia left 10,000 students out of school in Norfolk, the largest number of any school system in Virginia.
Primary source materials from the Special Collections of the Old Dominion University Libraries document the activities of several prominent citizens in their efforts to reopen the public schools. These materials, now available digitally through this Web site, include the activities of the Norfolk School Board, the Norfolk Committee on Public Schools, an attorney representing the plaintiffs in the lawsuits initiated to reopen the schools, and a teacher. Information on Virginia's reaction to the Supreme Court's decision as a whole is also included.