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Education

The Committee on Education

  1. Seek to eliminate segregation and other discriminatory practices in public education; 

  2. Study local educational conditions affecting minority groups; 

  3. Investigate the public school system and school zoning; 

  4. Familiarize itself with textbook material that is racially derogatory; 

  5. Seek to stimulate school attendance; 

  6. Keep informed of school conditions and strive to correct abuses where found; 

  7. Investigate the effects of standardized and high-stakes testing practices; 

  8. Teacher certification; 

  9. Promote parental involvement in education; and 

  10. Aim to be a center of popular education on the race question and on the work of the Association.

Meetings: Second Wednesday of the month, 5:30pm - 6:30pm

Chair: Deborah Travis

Education Allies

 

Education Committee Goals

* 2022 Draft Goals and Strategies


Virginia NAACP

Virginia Conference 2021* Education Legislative Agenda:

National NAACP

 

Communication Toolkit

The Communication Toolkit provides resources for community members to add their voices to public conversations on specific education topics by speaking to school boards and writing in response to topics.

 

Current Topics

2022 Model Policies on the Privacy, Dignity, and Respect for All Students and Parents in Virginia’s Public Schools developed by Virginia Department of Education (VDOE) began a 30-day public comment period on September 26, 2022. The linked document that follows provides the link to the Town Hall website for public comment, an explanation of the issue, links to and summaries of the 2022 and 2021 Model Policies, links to contact key state players, and background information:  Town Hall Website for Public Comment and Information on the 2022 Model Policies Document 

Re-Examining History

​“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”

― James Baldwin

Traditionally, history has been told through the perspective and to the advantage of the people whose position and privilege have given them the dominate voice.  The purpose of this page is to provide history resources that: 

a)   examine or challenge the traditionally presented view of history, and/or 

b)   include the voices of people whose lived experiences have been misrepresented or excluded.

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Resource Type
'Sorrowful Cavalcade': Enslaved Migration through Appalachian Virginia Phillip D. Troutman, The Smithfield Review, Vol. 5, pp. 23-45, website.
1619 Project Podcast Series: 1) The Fight for a True Democracy; 2) The Economy that Slavery Built; 3) The Birth of American Music; 4) How the Bad Blood Started; 5) The Land of Our Fathers, Part 1; The Land of Our Fathers, Part 2 from The New York Times.
1619 Project Reading Guide.
1619 Project Curriculum, at New York Times Magazine and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting collaboration, including Activities and Lesson Plans.
1619 Project Curriculum, at New York Times Magazine and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting collaboration. 
40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study, Office for Science and Society, McGill University, online article.
50 Years a Slave, the Hidden History of Rachel Findlay, Virginia Currents, NPR audio interview and transcript.
A Different Mirror for Young People:  A History of Multicultural America by Ronal Takaki, adapted by Rebecca Steffoff.
A Different Mirror:  A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki.
A Little Child Shall Lead Them: A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia (Carter G. Woodson ... Series: Black Studies at Work in the World) by Brian J. Daugherity and Brian Grogan
A Long Road:  How Jim Crow Affected the Design and Development of Recreational Areas Along the Blue Ridge Parkway, Thesis, National Park Service website.
A New History of Asian America by Shelley Sang-Hee Lee.
A New Way to Teach American History, online searchable resource, webpage.
A Young People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn.
A ‘History of Exclusion, of Erasure, of Invisibility.’ Why the Asian-American Story Is Missing From Many U.S. Classrooms by Olivia B. Waxman, Time, online article.
African American Coal Miners: Helen, WV, National Park Service, website.
African American Farmers and Civil Rights by Pete Daniel, The Journal of Southern History, online publication.
African American Railroad Workers of Roanoke: Oral Histories of the Norfolk & Western, by Sheree Scarborough.
African American and Cherokee Nurses in Appalachia:  A History, 1900-1965 by Phoebe Ann Pollitt
African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz
African Americans and the Blue Ridge Parkway, Historic Resource Study, National Park Service website.
African Americans and the Blue Ridge Parkway, Historic Resource Study, National Park Service website.
African Americans and the Railroad: Gauley Bridge Depot; Gauley Bridge, WV, National Park Service, website.
African Americans in Appalachia Fight to be Seen as a Part of Coal Country by Emma Ockerman, The Washington Post, online article.
African Americans in Appalachia, Featured Essay, Oxford African American Studies Center, webpage.
African Americans in Appalachia, Photo Essay, Oxford African American Studies Center, webpage.
African Americans in Appalachia, Photo Essay and Featured Essay, Oxford African American Studies Center, webpage.
African-American Mosaic, Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture, Library of Congress, website.
Africans in America:  America’s Journey Through Slavery, PBS Four-Part Series with Extensive Resource Bank and Teacher’s Guide for each Part.
After Atlanta:  Teaching About Asian American Identity and History by Elizabeth Kleinrock, Learning for Justice, contains links to resources, online article.
After Serving 68 Years in Pennsylvania Prison, Joe Ligon Returns to Modern World He Barely Knows, CBS Mornings, YouTube.
America Panorama:  An Atlas of United States History edited by Robert Nelson and Edward Ayers as part of Mapping Inequalities a searchable website of maps, Examples: 1) Mapping Inequality:  Redlining in New Deal America 1935-1940, 2) Renewing Inequality:  Family Displacement through Urban Renewal 1950-1966, and 3) Forced Migration of Enslaved People in the United States.
American Indian DOCSTeach and Sample Lessons:  American Indian Voting Rights through History and Analyzing a Letter About American Indian Voting Rights
American Indians, the Doctrine of Discovery, and Manifest Destiny by Robert J. Miller, online article from Wyoming Law Review.
Americans in Appalachia, ​​​Featured Essay and Photo Essay, Oxford African American Studies Center.
An Eclectic History of Montgomery County, Virginia by John A. Nicolay.  (Link goes to list of local libraries from which the book may be requested.  For a $5.00 postage fee, a branch of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.)
An Eclectic History of Montgomery County, Virginia by John A. Nicolay.  (Link goes to list of local libraries from which the book may be requested.  For a $5.00 postage fee, a branch of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.)
An Invaluable Black Public Broadcasting Archive is Now Accessible Online: article announcing American Archive of Public Broadcasting, a searchable repository of video and audio. 
An Unnoticed Struggle: A Concise History of Asian American Civil Rights Issues, Japanese American Citizen League, online booklet, website.   
Angel Island, U.S. Immigration Station, National Park Service, website.
Angel Island:  Gateway to Gold Mountain by Russell Freedman.
Appalachian Portrait:  Black and White in Montgomery County, Virginia, Before the Civil War by Charles Grant, VT MA thesis, online.
Asian American Heritage “in real life,” web series Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, recordings of web series, website.
Asian American Milestones:  Timeline, with links to resource information, History.Com Editors, website.
Asian American PBS LearningMedia Resources, may be filtered by grade and subject, online web search. 
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month with the National Portrait Gallery created by Nicole Vance, National Portrait Gallery, website.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the Making of the Nation, Biographies of AAPI Women, An Overview of World War II Japanese American Relocation Sites, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders during WWII, National Park Service, webpage. 
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month: Exhibits and Collections; Teacher Resources includes primary source documents; Images, Library of Congress, website.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Theme Students, National Park Service, Series of 16 online Essays, website.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S., NEH.GOV, EDSITEMENT!, website.
Asian American and Pacific Islander Materials: A Resource Guide, Library of Congress, website.
Asian Americans Advancing Justice, Asian American Civil Rights website.
Asian Americans K-12 Education Curriculum with lesson plans, OCA – Asian Pacific American Advocates website.
Asian Americans, PBS LearningMedia, Collection of 37 videos with Lesson Plans.
Barbara Johns of Farmville, Virginia, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, PBS LearningMedia, Collection, video. 
Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo” by Zora Neale Hurston.
Before Rosa Parks, There Was Claudette Colvin, article and audio, npr Radio.
Behind the Lynching of Emmett Louis Till by Louis Burnham, a 1959 publication available online.
Best Practices for African American Boys presented by Jawanza Kunjufu, video.
Better Lives, Bitter Lies, National Park Service, podcast.
Black Invisibility and Racism in Appalachia: An Informal Survey by Edward J. Cabbell, Appalachian Journal, Vol 8 pp. 48-54. Found in JSTOR; sign up to read free 100 articles a month.


Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice, by Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones. 
Black Roanoke:  Our Story by John Davis, online publication, Roanoke City, webpage.
Black Students on Strike! Farmville, Virginia, Separate Is Not Equal: Brown vs. Board of Education, Smithsonian National Museum of American History.
Black Wall Street 100’: Tulsa Author-historian Reviews Century of ‘Grappling’ with Lingering ‘Wound’ of 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Tim Stanley, Tulsa World.
Booker T. Washington National Monument website, “A Birthplace That Experienced Slavery, The Civil War and Emancipation,” “From Slave Cabin to Hall of Fame,” “Rise of the Colonial Plantation System,” “Alabama: Tuskegee Institute National Historic Site,” Hardy, VA. 
Booker T. Washington: An Appreciation of the Man and his Times by Barry Mackintosh, National Park Service, online publication. 
Booker T. Washington: An Appreciation of the Man and his Times by Barry Mackintosh, National Park Service, online publication. 
Booker T. Washington: An Appreciation of the Man and his Times by Barry Mackintosh, National Park Service, online publication. 
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938
Brief History of How Racism Shaped Interstate Highways, npr, audio and article. 
Brief History of Several Coal Mines in Montgomery County, Jimmie Price and Garland Proco, Self-Published, 1994.  (Link goes to list of local libraries from which the book may be requested.  For a $5.00 postage fee, a branch of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.)​
Brief History of the St. Luke and Odd Fellows Hall, (historical location for the African American community in and around Blacksburg) website.
Bringing Black History Into Your Classroom throughout the Year – Facing History and Ourselves:
Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia by Jill Ogline Titus.
CI Educational History, Oral History with Jessie Eaves, Virginia Tech Special Collection.
Calfee Community & Culture Center, website.​
Calfee Training School:  Its hidden history and future purpose for the community, Hidden History: Pulaski, WDBJ, article and video.
Calfee Training School:  The Legacy Lives On, ColorsVA.
California African American Museum, website.
Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic article online.
Celebrating Floyd County, Virginia, Online Collections Database, Floyd County Historical Society: Archives/Photos/Libraries/Objects, searchable website.
Celebrating Floyd County, Virginia, Online Collections Database, Floyd County Historical Society: Archives/Photos/Libraries/Objects, searchable website.
Celebrating Tribal Nations: America’s Great Partners, Suzan Shown Harjo’s Library of Congress 2008 Native American History Month Keynote Address, video.
Central Park Five, a film by Ken Burns & David McMahon & Sarah Burns, PBS, Blue Ridge Passport, video.
Central Park Five, Inside History newsletter, online article.
Challenging Caricatures:  Images of Queen Lili’uokalani, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, website. 
Charles Johnson Recalling the African-American Communities in and around Blacksburg[JB1] , 2009 Historic Lecture Series, Blacksburg Museum & Cultural Foundation, video.
Chauncey Depew Harmon, Senior: A Case Study in Leadership for Educational Opportunity and Equality in Pulaski Virginia by Norman Wayne Tripp, VT Doctoral Dissertation, online.
Christiansburg Industrial Institute Oral History Project, Virginia Tech, Special Collections and University Archives Online.
Christiansburg Institute Football Team and Marching Band, First School Dance at CI, Boarding Students, Thoughts on CI, Oral History with Mary Smith Mills, Virginia Tech Special Collections.
Christiansburg Institute Series:  Edgar A. Long Building, WVTF Public Radio on Discovery Virginia website,  Segment 1, Segment 2, Segment 3, Segment 4.
Christiansburg Institute, website.
Christiansburg Institute:  A Proud Heritage by James Wesley Smith and Amanda E. DeHart (Link goes to list of local libraries from which the book may be requested.  For a $5.00 postage fee, a branch of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.)
Christiansburg Institute:  Once a School; Now a Nonprofit, BUZZ, Blue Ridge PBS, Season 2, Episode 13, Part One and Part Two, online video.
Christiansburg Institute:  Segregation, Integration, and the Gift of Education, article in Colors: VA magazine.
Civil Rights Movement Timeline, History.Com (video with print timeline containing imbedded links)
Civil Rights Tours, Moton Museum, Farmville, VA, website.
Clear Connection between Slavery and American Capitalism by Dian Gerdeman, Forbes, online article.
Closing of Prince Edward County’s Schools, Virginia Museum of History & Culture, website.
Coal Mining Lives:  An Oral History Sequel to Appalachian Coal Mining Memories, Sociology and Anthropology Department at Radford University. (Link goes to list of local libraries from which the book may be requested.  For a $5.00 postage fee, a branch of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.)
ColorsVA, a Roanoke published magazine whose “mission is to illuminate issues relevant to Southwest Virginia’s communities,” Searchable Archive. 
Community Narratives for Architecture Spaces: Christiansburg Institute by Byronaé Danielle Lewis, VT MA thesis, online.
Community Remembrance Project, website of Equal Justice Initiative. Contains links to websites and videos on the history of racial terror lynching and segregation in America, on the legacy of enslavement to mass incarceration and on the memorials for peace and justice.
Comprehensive Bill to Address the History of Discrimination in Federal Agricultural Policy, Booker, Warren, Gillibrand, Smith, Warnock, and Leahy Announce Bill, Fact check:  Booker Says U.S. has History of Bias Against Black Farmers, Relief Bill is most Significant Legislation since Civil Rights Act, The Washington Post.   
Confronting history, to heal a nation (Bryan Stevenson extended interview). CBS Sunday Morning. Jan 31, 2022
DOCSTeach National Archives:  Primary Documents, Activities to Use to Teach and Engaging Activities
DOCSTeach National Archives:  Primary Documents, Activities to Use to Teach and Engaging Activities
Decolonizing Thanksgiving:  A Toolkit for Combatting Racism in Schools, Age of Awareness, an annotated list of over 20 resources for teachers and parents.
Densho Learning Center:  Resource Guide, Examining Racism and Discrimination Through Oral History, Sites of Shame, Digital Repository (searchable collection of photographs, document, newspapers, letters and other primary source martials from immigration to the WWII incarceration and its aftermath) website.
Descendant. Documentary about the descendants of the slaveship Clotilda in Africatown, AL.
Different Asian American Timeline, online tool for exploring the history of Asians and Asian Americans starting in the 1400’s, website.  
Digs Unearth Plantations Holdings Slaves in “free” North, The Baltimore Sun, article.
Diverse Threads in the History of the United States:  The Life of Booker T. Washington, History Cooperative, website.
Dr. Carter G. Woodson Collaborative, collection of resources for Virginia Standards: K-2, Virginia Studies, US History I, US History II, Virginia and US History, and selection of curated links, webpage.
EDSITEment! BEH.Gov,. History, Culture, and Heritage Teacher Guides; American Indian History and Heritage
EDSITEment! BEH.Gov,. History, Culture, and Heritage Teacher Guides; Hispanic Heritage and History in the United States
EDSITEment! NEH.Gov., History, Culture, and Heritage Teacher Guides: Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage and History in the U.S.
EDSITEment! NEH.Gov., History, Culture, and Heritage Teacher Guides:  African American History and Culture in the United States
Edgar A. Long and the Christiansburg Institute, News Messenger, article.
Edgar Allen Long, Principal of Christiansburg Institute:  A Life Devoted to Education, YouTube video of Edgar Allen Long’s family reading the biography of the same title written by Erin M. Lord, et al. Request from local library.  (Link goes to list of local libraries from which the book may be requested.  For a $5.00 postage fee, a branch of the Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.)
Elizabeth Freeman (first African American woman to successfully file a lawsuit for freedom in the state of Massachusetts), National Women’s History Museum, website.
Emancipation, Education, and the Black Freedom Movement, Christiansburg Institute, online exhibition.
Emmett Till Accuser Admits to Giving False Testimony at Murder Trial, Chicago Tribune, online article.

Emmett Till’s Accuser Admits She Lied, Equal Justice Initiative online article.
 

Emmitt Till Murdered, online article with Simeon Wright oral history interview on the trial, NAACP Press Release, and digital copy of Behind the Lynching of Emmett Louis Till, Documentary Studies at Duke University website.
Escape to Gold Mountain:  A Graphic History of the Chinese in North America, nonfiction graphic novel.
Exilic Existence: Contributions of Black Churches in Prince Edward County, Virginia During the Modern Civil Rights Movement by J. Samuel Williams Jr.
Eye on the Past, Blue Ridge PBS, “Christiansburg Industrial Institute,” video.
Eye on the Past, Blue Ridge PBS, “Christiansburg Industrial Institute,” video.
Facing Freedom: An African American Community in Virginia from Reconstruction to Jim Crow by Daniel B. Thorp, includes information regarding Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and the Wake Forest communities. (Available at Christiansburg Branch of Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library.)
False Cause:  Fraud, Fabrication, and White Supremacy in Confederate Memory, webinar sponsored by Department of History, College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, Virginia Tech.
Family Tree:  Campus Cemeteries Reveal Our Past, Virginia Tech Magazine, “Past and Present” section contains information on Kentland Farm and Wake Forest, website.
Family Visits home dedicated to once enslaved relatives, video and article of the renaming of Solitude on VT campus to the Fraction Family House at Solitude.
Filipino American Farmworksers Fight for Their Rights: Asian Americans, coalition building with Mexican American farmworkers, PBS LearningMedia video.
Finding a Path Forward:  Asian American Pacific Islander National Historic Landmarks Theme Study edited by Franklin Odo, Immigration, Exclusion, and Resistance by Erika Lee, National Park Service, online essay.
First Black Graduate of Floyd County High Shares Triumphs, Challenges, WSLS Chanel 10 News, video with additional pictures and text.
Floyd County Show Explores Black Roots of Old-time Mountain Music by Randy Walker, The Roanoke Times, online article.
Fred Korematsu Speaks Up by Laura Atkins and Stan Yogi.
From Segregation to Community in Pulaski, Radio IQ, WVTF, audio & text.
Future of America’s Past, PBS episodes that revisit misunderstood parts of American’s past, video.
Gainsboro History Tour of African American Culture, Virginia’s Blue Ridge, self-guided walking tour of Gainsboro, Roanoke.
Germany Punished Its Fascist; We Built Statues to Ours, Loretta Ross; Amanpour and Company, YouTube video.
Girl from the Tar Paper School: Barbara Rose Johns and the Advent of the Civil Rights Movement by Teri Kanefield
Green Book:  African American Experiences of Travel and Place in U.S., example of lesson plan from EDSITEment! NEH.Gov.
Group Works to Resurrect Pulaski’s Howard Center​, WDBJ News Story, article and video.
Growing Up in Elliston, Va., The African-American Community in Elliston, Elaine’s Time at Christiansburg Institute, and Candid Feelings about the Closing of CI, Oral History with Elaine Dowe Carter, Virginia Tech Special Collections.
Growing Up in Wake Forest, Memories of Wake Forest Elementary, Moving from Wake Forest, Oral History with Naomi Davidson, Virginia Tech Special Collection.
Growing Up in the New River Valley, Blacksburg Negro Elementary School and Christiansburg Institute, Extracurricular Activities at CI, and Community Reaction to Christiansburg Institute Closing, Oral History with Jacqueline Eaves, Virginia Tech Special Collections.
Hard Times, Rich Memories:  The Coal Miners of Montgomery County, VA, Video of miners sharing memories from mining communities such as Merrimac, McCoy, and Wake Forest. (Link goes to a list of local libraries that have a copy of the tape.)
Hard Times, Rich Memories [videorecording]: the coal miners of Montgomery County, Virginia, Virginia Tech University Library.
Harrison Museum of African American Culture, located in Center in the Square, Roanoke:  Speaker Series.
He Served the Longest Sentence of Any Innocent U.S. Inmate, The Atlantic on YouTube video.
He Was Known as a Coal Mining Legend, Oscar Orlando Sherman Sr., Wake Forest resident, The Roanoke Times article.
Henrietta Lacks: How Her Cells Became One of the Most Important Medical Tools in History, History website article.
Henry Louis Gates, Jr: “We are 99.9% the Same,” Amanpour and Company YouTube, video.
Her Family History Unfolds In and Around Radford by  Catherine Copich Van Noy, The Roanoke Times, July 17, 2004/Updated June 6m 2019, online article.
Hickmans and Servants: Two Appalachian Families H. William Gabriel, The Smithfield Review, Vol. 4,  pp. 37-66, published online.
Hidden Histories, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center, website.
Historian Makes Case For 'What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia' In New Book, npr interview, transcript and audio recording, website. 
Historian Makes Case For 'What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia' In New Book, npr interview, transcript and audio recording, website. 
Historians’ Brief But Spectacular take on Understanding the past to live a better future, Daina Ramey Berry, chair of history department at the University of Texas at Austin, PBS News Hour, February 5, 2021.
Historians’ Brief But Spectacular take on Understanding the past to live a better future, Daina Ramey Berry, chair of history department at the University of Texas at Austin, PBS News Hour, February 5, 2021.
Historical Memories of the Japanese American Internment and the Struggle for Redress by Murray, Alice Yang, Stanford University Press. (Available upon request from local library.  Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.  $5.00 postage fee.)
History Lab at Virginian Tech Exhibits:  Creating Home, Black Inclusion and Community, Solitude, The Heart of Virginia Tech History, Women of Color, Profiles in Achievement, digital exhibit. 
History Lab at Virginian Tech Exhibits:  Creating Home, Black Inclusion and Community, Solitude, The Heart of Virginia Tech History, Women of Color, Profiles in Achievement, digital exhibit. 
History of Early Coal Mining, A hard way of life in the Mountains of the Appalachia's - YouTube, narrated pictures of the mining experience. 
History of Kentland Farm and Wake Forest, Oral History with Charles Johnson, Virginia Tech Special Collections.
How Black Cartographers Put Racism on the Map of America, in The Conversation, a nonprofit, independent news organization.
How Did We Get Here? 163 Years of The Atlantic’s Writing on Race and Racism in America, online list of linked articles.
How Did We Get Here? 163 Years of The Atlantic’s Writing on Race and Racism in America, online list of linked articles.
How White Women’s “Investment” in Slavery has Shaped American Today. (Interview with author of They Were Her Property:  White Women as Slave Owners in the American South). Vox, online article.
Immigrant History Initiative, Wayfinding & Storytelling Lesson Plan Topics:  AP US History Lessons, Chinese American History Curriculum, Anti-Asian Racism & Covid-19, website.
Income Inequality is the U.S. is Rising Most Rapidly Among Asians by Rakesh Kochhar and Anthony Cilluffo, Pew Research Center, website.
Indian Country Today: Digital Indigenous News, includes news articles and newscasts.
Indian Slavery and Freedom Suits: The Cases of Rachel Viney and Rachel Findlay Mary B. Kegley, The Smithfield Review, Vol. 12, published online.
Indian Slavery and Freedom Suits:  The Cases of Rachel Viney and Rachel Findlay by Mary B. Kegley, The Smithfield Review, Volume XII, 2008, online publication.
Indians in Virginia, Encyclopedia Virginia, Virginia Humanities website.
Indigenous History at Virginia Tech Collection, VT Special Collections and University Archives Online.
Indigenous History at Virginia Tech Collection, VT Special Collections and University Archives Online.
Indigenous History at Virginia Tech,  VT Special Collections and University Archives Online.
Indigenous People, online newspaper. 
Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz.
Inequality, Institute for Policy Studies, Racial Inequality and Covid-19, The Race Wealth Divide, Racial Income Inequality, Race and Gender Inequality,  and more, website.
Interactive map to explore land-grab university data, step by step chart tracing the Morrell Act of 1862 and maps of universities endowed by the Morrell land grants.
Jacob Yoder and Educating Virginia’s Freedpeople After the Civil War, The Uncommon Wealth, Library of Virginia.
Japanese American Evacuation and Resettlement, Calisphere, Digital Objects: text and photographs of relocation centers, and map of geography of incarceration, website.
Japanese American WWII Incarceration:  The Core Story, Encyclopedia Topic Index, Digital Archives, Oral History Video Interviews, Densho website.
Japanese-American Internment, FDR Library Video Collection,  Japanese American Internment (with Captions), FDR and WWII, Part 4, Japanese-American Internment,  Executive Order 9066 – Japanese American Internment, A Conversation with George Takei:  Life in the Camps, YouTube videos.
Jefferson’s Blood:  Thomas Jefferson, his slave & mistress Sally Hemings, their descendants, and the mysterious Power of Race, PBS, Frontline, Teacher’s Guide: Jefferson’s Blood
Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia, Ferris State University, video Explanation  and Tour of Museum, 8 Exhibits including a timeline, explanation of Jim Crow 11 Caricatures, Essays, and more.
Journal of Slavery and Data Preservation, Enslaved.org website.
Kentland at Whitethorne:  Virginia Tech’s Agricultural Farm and Families that Owned It by Patricia Givens Johnson, Walpa Publishing.  (Link goes to list of local libraries from which the book may be requested.  For a $5.00 postage fee, a branch of Montgomery-Floyd Regional Library will request for patrons.)
Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land is the Foundation of the Land-grant University System by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, online article High Country News.
Land-Grab Universities: Expropriated Indigenous Land is the Foundation of the Land-grant University System by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone, online article High Country News. Includes Interactive map to explore land-grab university data, step by step chart tracing the Morrell Act of 1862 and maps of universities endowed by the Morrell land grants.
Learning for Justice, Classroom Resources, Magazines & Publications, Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education.
Learning for Justice, Classroom Resources and  Magazines & Publications.
Learning for Justice, Critical Practices for Anti-bias Education.
Lies Across America:  What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen.
Lies Across America:  What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong by James W. Loewen.

School Division and School Board Information

Information includes processes for communicating with school board members and division administrators as well as attending school board meeting.

Montgomery County Public Schools is led by a School Board of seven members, all elected by popular vote.

Meetings are normally held on the first and third Tuesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. Typically, meetings are located at the Montgomery County Government Center, 755 Roanoke Street, Christiansburg, VA. Occasionally meeting times and/or locations change. Please refer to the meeting page for the most current information.



 

STUDENT CODE OF CONDUCT

Student Support and Conduct

In January of 2019, the Virginia Board of Education approved revisions to the Student Code of Conduct Policy Guidelines, including renaming the document:  Model Guidance for Positive and Preventative Code of Student Conduct Policy and Alternatives.  Pages 9-10, state: 

 

 


​The goal of the document is to provide school boards with guidance to revise local student codes of conduct to create a positive and preventive approach to student conduct. 

Research has shown that frequent out of school suspensions, zero-tolerance policies, and “get-tough” approaches to school safety are “ineffective and increase the risk for negative social and academic outcomes, especially for children from historically disadvantaged groups.”
The 2017-2818 revision was undertaken to create a document that:

Focuses on prevention;
Recognizes the needs for instructional interventions and behavioral supports when students do not meet behavioral expectations; and 
Defines equitable approaches to school discipline.


Local school boards are required to adopt and revise regulations on codes of student conduct that are consistent with, but may be more stringent than, these Guidelines.

Contact Us:

NAACP Montgomery County-Radford City-Floyd County Branch

PO Box 6044

Christiansburg, Virginia 24068

info@mrfnaacp.org 

(540) 382-6751

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