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The arrival of hundreds of families from New York and Ohio who came to work for
B&W and GE in the 1960s impacted the city’s housing, schools and churches, helping to transform the city in the process. SEE STORY PAGE 6
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6 Lynchburg in the Decade of the 1960s by Thomas G. Ledford.
The recently retired director of Lynchburg’s museum system takes us back to the boom years of the 1960s “when the Hill City of the Old South and Tobacco Town faded away....”
10 “No Matter How Long”: The Struggle to Integrate the Public Schools in Lynchburg, 1954–1970, Chapter III by Henry Faulkner Heil. The author’s careful analysis, combined with compelling oral histories gathered by the Center for the History and Culture of Central Virginia, transforms a seemingly black and white issue into a complex human drama.
32 The Great Society, Vietnam, and Central Virginia by Michael W. Santos. They were young. They attended local high schools and enrolled in nearby universities. They worked at places like the Lane Company and Burley’s Market. Some volunteered to go to Vietnam, others were drafted. Their experiences continue to touch the lives of Central Virginians and the rest of nation.
48 Out of the Walls: Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in the 1960s By Carolyn Wilkerson Bell. The 1960 sit-in which Bell reports “shocked and
distressed the campus and the community” was only the beginning. R-MWC was
in the process of changing from a sleepy southern girl’s school into an active, innovative woman’s college.
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6 From the Editor
56 From the Jones
57 History in Brief
58 A Book of Interest
FRONT COVER: Lynda Woodruff and Owen Cardwell arrive at
their first day of school at E.C. Glass. The two students were the first black students to attend a white school in Lynchburg. January 29, 1962. COURTESY OF THE NEWS & ADVANCE
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