Map of the Greenbriar subdivision, a Levitt & Sons housing development. Levitt & Sons was a national real estate developer known for permitting racial segregation in many of their housing developments in the 1940s-1960s.
Advertisement for Levitt & Sons' first subdivision in Virginia, in Fairfax County. Levitt & Sons was a national real estate developer known for permitting racial segregation in many of their housing developments in the 1940s-1960s.
Document attached to Howard Rogerson's letter to John Finley. Published by the US Commission on Civil Rights in 1963, it lists the segregation status of Virginia's institutions of higher learning. It incorrectly includes GMC under the segregated public school list.
Letter from John Finley, Director of GMC, to Howard Rogerson of the US Commission on Civil Rights responding to their previous correspondence about the admission status of GMC in regards to race. Finley states that GMC is not segregated however the college has yet to have a Black student as of 12/4/1963 when the letter was written.
Finley states that the school does not take the same effort to recruit Black high school students as it does white ones. However, they note that no qualified Black applicant would be denied admission.
Letter from Howard Rogerson at the US Commission on Civil Rights to John Finley, Director at GMC, on the college's admissions policy in regards to race - inquiring whether the schools listed status as segregated was accurate
Newspaper article in Broadside about student and faculty backlash against the school administration in May 1970. Chancellor Thompson answered questions including why Black students are not recruited, and whether faculty were let go over dissent against the administration.
Invitation from the Chancellor's office to Chancellor Lorin Thompson's monthly Tea meetings for students and faculty, dated for Sept. 24, 1967 at the Library.
