Sarah Patton Boyle and the Saturday Evening Post
Sarah
Patton Boyle, "Southerners will like Integration," Saturday Evening
Post.
Sarah Patton Boyle's controversial article supporting desegregation of UVA. February 19, 1955
Telegram from J.J. Pace to President
Darden
An acquaintance of President Darden condemns Sarah Patton Boyle's Staurday
Evening Post article. February 16, 1955
Letter from President Darden to
J.J. Pace
President Darden dissociates himself and the University from Sarah Patton
Boyle's Staurday Evening Post article, maintains his belief in
segregated school systems, but acknowledges the court decision forcing
integration. February 18, 1955
Letter from Sarah Patton Boyle to President
Darden
Sarah Patton Boyle requests President Darden's opinion of her article
in the Saturday Evening Post claiming southern readiness for desegregation.
February 18, 1955
Letter from President Darden to
Sarah Patton Boyle
President Darden disagrees with Boyle's contention that Virginia is ready
for integrated schooling, suggesting a white exodus from public schools
would meet such action. February 24, 1955
Response
to Sarrah Patton Boyle Article
A response to the Sarah Patton Boyle Article distributed by the
Society for the Preservation of State Government and Racial Integrity. March
1955
Letter from Kenneth H. Hooley
to President Darden
Hooley attacks Sarah Patton Boyle's Saturday Evening Post article,
"Southerners Will Like Integration," confident that Darden will
"purge" the campus of such persons. Boyle, the spouse of a faculty
member, purportedly misrepresents the "Virginia tradition."
Hooley includes a copy of his own remarks from a public hearing on integration,
in which he warns of the Marxist undertones of desegregation. March
5, 1955
Letter from President Darden to
Kenneth H. Hooley
President Darden dissociates the University from the words of a faculty
member's spouse, who had spoken against segregation. March
8, 1955
Virginia Spectator Articles: Sarah
Patton Boyle, Edwin
Henderson, William
Faulkner, John
Kasper, Floyd
Fleming
Articles by Sarah patton Bolye, Edwin Henderson, William Faulkner, John Kasper, Floyd Fleming in support of
desegregation that appeared in the Virginia Spectator. May 1957
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