A Little History of the Events and Times Surrounding the Integration of the Alexandria High Schools in 1971

Related links:

Note: the links presented hear all refer to the school busing issue and the policies of segregation and integration. The original web-site has many more links to references and information about the Viet Nma War. (http://www.lawbuzz.com/movies/remember_the_titans/the_titans_ch1.htm)

Plessy v. Ferguson - Separate But Equal
www.lawbuzz.com/can_you/plessy/plessy.htm

Brown v. Board of Education II http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?command=show&case_id=52&page=abstracthttp://www.uwosh.edu/faculty_staff/petronic/pages/l-ch5.htm

Swann v. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education which established busing as a constitutional; method of integration.
http://libweb.uncc.edu/archives/manuscripts/C/chambers.txt
http://www.edweek.org/ew/vol-17/28bus.h17
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/special/deseg/docs/primer.htm
http://www.charlotte.com/schools/00assign/docs/0609desegtext.htm
http://www.charlotte.com/schools/00assign/docs/0608court.htm
http://www.charlotte.com/schools/00assign/docs/0608tommy.htm

Timeline of desegregation in the United States:
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/special/deseg/timeline/timeline.htm

Jim Crow Laws:
http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/crow_laws/what_law.htm
http://www.lawbuzz.com/tyranny/crow_laws/infamous.htm
http://www.citizenet.com/archive/021700/people.html

TC Williams High School:
http://www.acps.k12.va.us/profiles/tcwilliams.html

George Washington High School:
http://gwaa.acps.k12.va.us/history.html

Timeline of the History of Alexandria:
http://ci.alexandria.va.us/city/timeline/alex_timeline_1900.html
http://ci.alexandria.va.us/oha/oha.html