Documents relating to Norfolk's Massive Resistance effort

-- Letter from the Norfolk School Board to then Gov. Almond, telling him that back students have been assigned to schools and that they understand those schools will be closed.

-- Interview questions from a form that the interview committee used in interviewing the students and their parents.

-- Letter to black parents letting them know that their children have been enrolled, but not to show up because the schools have been closed.

-- Proclamation from the school board to the governor asking for help because they have been sued by black families.

-- Statement from the school board on July 17, 1958, including questions and answers citizens had asked and the board's attorneys had answered.

Document courtesy of the Old Dominion University Libraries Special Collections and University Archives.