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Scope and Contents The unabridged circa 1967 manuscript Salt Water and Printer's Ink, along with speeches, writings, and other materials written or compiled by Lenoir Chambers of Norfolk, Virginia. Subject matter of the writings include the South, Stonewall Jackson, local newspaper history, and desegregation of Norfolk's public schools. There are also separate files of materials on Norfolk Academy and Norfolk Public Library. The collection also includes clippings about Lenoir...

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Publications collected by Mason C. Andrews of Norfolk, Virginia from 1960 to 2006. The documents primarily include reports and booklets relating to redeveloping downtown Norfolk, including transportation, Nauticus, Waterside, and Tidewater Community College.

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Brochures, correspondence, and other items relating to hotels in Norfolk, Virginia, including the Atlantic Hotel, Monticello Hotel, and Nansemond Hotel.

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Correspondence, blank forms, promotional materials, news releases, public service spot announcements, and clippings related to the Norfolk Voter Registration Council and the Norfolk Committee for Neighborhood Voter Registration. Most documents in this collection are dated 1966, but the Norfolk Committee for Neighborhood Voter Registration covers 1967 and 1968. These materials relate largely to promoting voter registration in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Correspondence, writings, poems, speeches, publications, and clippings written by or about Robert M. Hughes.

Scope and Contents Personal, professional, political, and family papers of Samuel F. Coppage, Sr. of Norfolk, Virginia. The collection includes Coppage's involvement in various local organizations, particularly the Community Democratic Club, NAACP, and Norfolk Community Hospital. The collection also documents his activities with professional dental organizations such as the Old Dominion Dental Society; fraternal groups including the Elks and Frontiers Club; youth groups such as Boy Scouts of America, YMCA, and...

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Correspondence, photographs, genealogical information, clippings, and other information relating primarily to Samuel Slover and Fay Martin Slover. Most of the correspondence from both Samuel Slover and Fay Martin Slover is addressed to Martha Tobey of Knoxville, Tennessee.

Scope and Contents Eighteen scrapbooks compiled by Rev. W. H. T. Squires, primarily consisting of clippings relating to people, places, and events in Virginia. There is a notable emphasis on Virginia during and after the Civil War. Series 1 consists of 15 scrapbooks that cover Virginia history generally, while the remaining 3 scrapbooks that make up Series 2 consist of clippings taken from the 75th anniversary edition of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot on June 26, 1940. The subject...

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Circa 1960s WRAP radio station ephemeral materials and photographs of WRAP African-American disc jockeys in Norfolk, Virginia.