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Title	Granby High School Students' "Open the Schools" Rally - Norfolk, Virginia
Date	1958-09-29
Time Period	1950s Massive Resistance (1956 – 1959) Civil Rights Movement (1955 – 1968)
Description	September 29, 1958 photograph of Granby High School students signing a petition requesting that the schools reopen. The petition read: "We, the undersigned, students of Granby High School, feel that the most important part of the problem facing our state today is the education of its youth. Taking an unbiased stand on the integration problem, we implore the officials concerned to use all expediency in reopening our public schools." The students, led by their school's student government, staged an "Open the Schools" rally on Granby High School grounds before being asked to leave by police. They moved to the parking lot of the Masonic Temple beside the school where they continued to hold the rally.
Subjects	Granby High School (Norfolk, Va.) Norfolk Public Schools (Norfolk, Va.) School integration--Virginia--Norfolk--History--20th century. Massive resistance (Southern states history, 1956-1964)--Virginia.
Keywords	Granby High School Protest Demonstrations Massive Resistance Norfolk Masonic Temple Parking lots Oxford Street Students Norfolk Public Schools Schools Petition Talbot Park Norfolk, Virginia
Location	Norfolk (Va.)
Photographer	Guthrie, Clifton
Newspaper	Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch Newspaper
Repository	The Virginian-Pilot;
Host Institution	Norfolk Public Library (Va.);
Copyright Holder	The Virginian-Pilot;
Usage Rights	This image is copyrighted by The Virginian-Pilot. It may be used for educational purposes. To use this picture for personal or commercial purposes, you need to contact the Virginian-Pilot Photo Department (757-446-2390).
File Name	AA-FN61377 - 60 copy.jpg
Genre/Form	Photograph
Type	Still Image;
Original Format	Film Negative
Original Dimensions	2 1/2 x 2 1/2"
Digital Format	JPEG
Headline	Students Rally for Open Schools;
Notes	See the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch, 9/30/1958.
Source	The Virginian-Pilot Photograph Collection, FN61377.
Collection	The Virginian-Pilot Photograph Collection
Related Collections or Materials	SMC Photograph Collection; Norfolk Public Schools's School Board Minutes at Sargeant Memorial Collection - Norfolk Public Library; DOVE (Desegregation of Virginia Education) Project at Old Dominion University Libraries - Special Collections
GPS Coordinates	36.905769, -76.278183
Norfolk AIR GPIN	36.905769, -76.278183

Granby High School Students' "Open the Schools" Rally - Norfolk, Virginia

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