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Brown v. Board of Education: Virginia Responds
An Exhibition at the Library of Virginia
Originally Displayed December 2003—June 2004.
 
Brown v. Board of Education Documents: Virginians Respond — Northern Virginia

Letter from Carl E. Auvil, Falls Church, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond. November 15, 1954. Office of the Governor, Thomas B. Stanley Papers. Certainly not all Virginians were against desegregation. Carl Auvil wrote that "Both the principles of Christianity and the law of our land point toward elimination of racial segregation."

Letter from Carl E. Auvil, Falls Church, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond. November 15, 1954.