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A Guide to the Danville (Va.) Civil Rights Case Files, 1963-1973 Civil Rights Case Files, Danville (Va.), 1963-1973 38099

A Guide to the Danville (Va.) Civil Rights Case Files, 1963-1973

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Accession Number 38099


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Funding: Web version of the finding aid funded in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Processed by: Jay Gaidmore and Alex Lorch; V. Brooks and M. Mason

Repository
Library of Virginia
Accession number
38099
Title
Danville (Va.) Civil Rights Case Files, 1963-1973
Physical Characteristics
Digital images and audio files
Physical Location
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Language
English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

Danville (Va.) Civil Rights Case Files, 1963-1973 physical materials and audio recordings have been digitized and are available through Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery page on the Library of Virginia website. Please use digital collection. Links to each section are included in the section description under the Content List.

Use Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Preferred Citation

Danville (Va.) Civil Rights Case Files, 1963-1973. Accession 38099, Local Government Records Collection, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.

Acquisition Information

Records lent for microfilming and digital duplication by Danville, Virginia Circuit Court, 17 August 1999 under accession 38099.

Digital images made by Backstage in 2021 from the 1999 microfilm. CDs of the original Dictabelt audio recordings of the trials were also converted in 2021.

Processing Information

The Danville (Va.) Circuit Court Clerk lent the Library of Virginia the original case files and Dictabelts for microfilming and digitial conversion in 1999. The microfiliming was performed by Henry Micrographics in 1999 and produced Miscellaneous Microfilm reels 2325-2329 and preservation microfilm reels 1-5; however, it was determined Miscellaneous Microfilm reels 2327-2329 (or Reels 3-5) did not meet microfilm quality standards, and the records were refilmed in 2000-2001, creating new Reels 3-5 which were stored at the State Records Center. Service copies of the new reels were never created. The Library of Virginia used the security microfilm, Reels 1-5, to scan and create digitial images of the documents and at this time it was detemined that the service copy film (Miscellaneous Microfilm reels 2325-2329) were different from the preservation microfilm (Reels 1-5), as more material was include on Reels 1-5.

A project was completed around 2000 by Dictaphone Corporation to record and transfer the audio contents and the inserts of these Dictabelts onto compact disks.

As of 2024, upon conversion of the microfilmed material to digital images and the conversion of the CD audio to audio files 2021-2022, the Local Records manager deteremined the service copies of the microfilm and audio CDs to be redudent records in LVA holdings. These copies were removed from the collections.

In 2023 M. Mason and V. Brooks went through the approximately 4,300 digital images to arrange them so they would pair with the finding aid. At this time duplicate, blank, and microflim imaging targets were removed from the digital files. Corrections were made to alphabetical and chronological orders and misidentified or newly discovered material was identified.

Encoded by Jay Gaidmore, 1999; updated by Alex Lorch, 2003; updated by M. Mason; May 2024

Historical Information

Context for Records: The summer of 1963 witnessed a wave of civil rights demonstrations throughout the nation. In Danville, Virginia, the leaders of the Danville Christian Progressive Association (DCPA), an affiliate of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), organized a series of protests. Rev. Lawrence G. Campbell, Rev. Alexander I. Dunlap, Julius E. Adams, and Arthur Pinchback, Jr., believing that the Danville NAACP under the leadership of Doyle Thomas was too conservative, had founded the DCPA in 1960. These men, along with Rev. Lendall W. Chase, president of the Danville SCLC, took the lead in promoting civil rights in Danville, a city deep in Virginia's Black Belt with decades of systemic racism shaped by Jim Crow era polcies and therefore strong in segregationist sentiment.

Throughout 1962, the leaders repeatedly appeared before the Danville City Council to demand Black representation on the boards of city agencies and the end of segregation. In August 1962, with the help of Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) lawyer Len W. Holt, Campbell, Dunlap, Adams, and Chase filed the Danville Omnibus Integration Suit in federal court. The suit called for the integration of Danville's hospitals, schools, cemeteries, public buildings, public housing projects, teaching assignments, and city employment opportunities. On January 1, 1963, Dunlap, Chase, Campbell, Adams, and Pinchback were arrested at a segregated Howard Johnson's restaurant for trespassing after refusing to leave when the manager asked them to do so. In March, Martin Luther King, Jr., spoke at a meeting of the Danville SCLC.

On May 31, the Danville civil rights demonstrations began peacefully and ended without incident. Police did not make any arrests and the local press ignored the demonstration. The majority of the demonstrators were teenagers led by Thurman Echols and Ezell Barksdale. On June 5, the demonstrators changed tactics as the participants marched into City Hall and occupied the city manger's office, and the next day jointly impeded traffic by sitting down in the middle of a busy city street. Judge Archibald M. Aiken, Jr., judge of the Danville Corporation Court, was summoned by police to the scene and commanded the demonstrators to disperse. The demonstrators, however, refused, prompting Aiken to issue a temporary injunction that ordered the demonstrators to desist from, among other things, assembling in an unlawful manner, interfering with traffic and business, obstructing entrances to businesses and public buildings, participating and inciting "mob violence," and using loud language that disrupts the peace. The injunction, made permanent a few weeks later, formed the basis for many of the arrests made that summer.

In addition to the injunction, Danville officials used other methods to quell the demonstrations. A special grand jury, convened by Aiken, indicted the demonstration leaders on June 7 under the 1859 statute called the "John Brown's Law," that made inciting "the colored population to acts of violence or war against the white population" illegal. This set the bond for the leaders at $5,000 each. In mid-June and early July, the Danville city council, under the leadership of councilman John W. Carter, an attorney and staunch segregationist, adopted two ordinances designed to limit the demonstrations. One limited the size, place, and time of demonstrations and the other required a permit to parade.

Despite Aiken's and the city council's attempts, the demonstrations continued. Civil rights activists from the SNCC and the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), including field secretaries Bob Zellner, Ivanhoe Donaldson, Avon Rollins, and Daniel Foss (SNCC), and Bruce Baines and Claudia Edwards (CORE) arrived in Danville to participate in the demonstrations. Civil rights lawyers affiliated with the National Lawyer's Guild and the NAACP, including William M. Kunstler, Dean Robb, Nathan Conyers, and Samuel W. Tuckers, also arrived in Danville to help represent the demonstrators. On June 10, after a full day of protests, the police and deputized city workers, with nightsticks and fire hoses, attacked a group of Black community members holding a vigil for individuals detained in the city jail. Forty-seven of the fifty or so people in attendance required medical attention. The next day, July 11, Martin Luther King, Jr., visited Danville in a show of support for the demonstrators, although he decided to not hold a march during the appearance.

The demonstrations continued, however, and by mid-July over 250 people had been arrested on charges of contempt, trespassing, disorderly conduct, assault, parading without a permit, and resisting arrest. When parents went to the jail to post bail for their children, some of them were arrested and charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor by not providing adequate supervision.

The defense lawyers, including Len W. Holt, Ruth L. Harvey, Jerry Williams, and Harry I. Wood, in addition to those from the National Lawyer's Guild and the NAACP, attempted to remove the cases from the corporation court to federal court, but to no avail. Each defendant demanded an individual trial causing the corporation court's dockets to be filled to such an extent that no cases other than the demonstrator's could not be heard. The prosecutor requested a change of venue to alleviate the crowded docket and Aiken transferred about 124 cases to other courts throughout Virginia. This posed signigicant financial stress on many of the defendants who were then required to travel to a different court. In some cases, more than a hundred miles distant.

The defense lawyers again sought an order from the federal courts to stay all arrests, trials, and other proceedings for violation of the injunction and city ordinance. On August 8, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals halted these trials pending the outcome of the appeal. Judge Aiken, however, continued hearing the cases for disorderly conduct, parading without a permit, resisting arrest, and trespassing. He generally sentenced the guilty parties to two to five days in jail and a fine, suspending execution of the sentences pending an appeal. In September, defense counsel agreed to consolidate the cases and Aiken rescinded his orders for change of venue.

By mid-August, the demonstrations had largely waned due to Danville's unwillingness to yield to the protests. A year later, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal dissolved the injunction, but, by a 3-2 margin and with a strong dissent, declared Aiken's injunction constitutional. Moreover, the cases were remanded to the corporation court where the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals could hear the necessary appeals. The United States Supreme Court upheld the decision by a five-four margin.

In December 1966, Judge Aiken resumed the trials of those who violated his injunction. The trials proceeded quickly. Aiken did not find all the defendants guilty and dismissed some cases for lack of evidence. The usual sentence was eight days in jail and a fine of twenty dollars. The demonstration leaders received the stiffest penalties with Rev. Lawrence G. Campbell receiving the worst, being sentenced 250 days in jail and a $2,500 fine.

In early 1967, the Virginia Supreme Court began deciding the first of the appeals from the Danville Corporation Court. In Thomas v. City of Danville, the Court ruled Judge Aiken's injunction constitutional. In York v. City of Danville, they ruled that a parade can be subject to "reasonable and nondiscriminatory regulation," but that the city's time requirement for applying for a permit was too harsh. In 1970, the Court ruled in Rollins v. Commonwealth that the state must prove that a defendant not named in the injunction had knowledge of the injunction before violating its orders. In January 1973, the Supreme Court of Appeals heard the last of the cases associated with the demonstrations and requested that the Commonwealth's Attorney for Danville review the cases under appeal in light of the court's previous rulings. As a result, the Court overturned the convictions of almost 270 people. However, the Court upheld the convictions of those named in the injunction and for trespassing, obstructing traffic, and illegal picketing.

On February 9, 1973, the court proceedings involving the Danville demonstrations of 1963 came to end. Judge Glynn R. Phillips, Jr., of Clintwood was assigned to hear the defense motion to suspend the jail sentences and fines of those whose convictions had been upheld. Judge Aiken died in 1971, and the new Danville Corporation Court judge had recused himself. Against the prosecutor's objections, Judge Phillips suspended the jail sentences on condition of good behavior for two years, but ordered payment of fines that totaled more than $5,000.

Locality History: Danville (Va.), in Pittsylvania County, was named for the Dan River on which the city is located. Danville was established in 1793, was incorporated as a town in 1830, and became a city in 1890. The town of North Danville, incorporated in 1877 and renamed Neopolis in 1894, was added in 1896.

Scope and Content Information

Danville (Va.) Civil Rights Case Files, 1963-1973, consists of court papers and legal files relating to the 1963 Civil Rights demonstrations in Danville. These files include bills of particulars, bond records, correspondence, court dockets, court orders, Dictabelts, evidence, judgments, petitions, photographs, receipts, subpoenas, and transcripts of testimony that document the legal aspects of the demonstrations from the Danville Corporation Court to the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.

Arrangement

This collection is arranged into the following series:

Series I: Individual Case Files, A-Z individual files of persons arrested during the civil rights demonstrations of 1963.
Series II: Howard Johnson Trespassing Case, 1963, concerning the trial for those arrested for trespassing on January 1, 1963 at the Howard Johnson restaurant on Route 29 south of Danville.
Series III:Correspondence, 1963-1967 of clerk of the Danville Corporation Court and clerk of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals.
Series IV: Corporation Court Dockets,1963-1967 related to the demonstration cases.
Series V: Court Orders, 1963-1973 issued by the Danville Corporation Court and U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia.
Series VI: Evidence, 1963 used in various cases.
Series VII: Notes, undated concerning cases and sentencing.
Series VIII: Petitions, 1963 Petition for Removal filed with the court.
Series IX: Receipts bonds and court costs related to various charges.
Series X: Special Grand Jury, 1963 indictments and subpoenas concerning "John Brown's Law."
Series XI: Transcripts, 1963 transcripts of testimony in various cases.
Series XII: Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, 1965-1972. decisions handed down by the court of appeals.
Series XIII: Dictabelt Records, 1966-1973 audio records of various cases heard in the Danville Corporation Court.

Related Material

See also: Virginia. Virginia.Governor (1962-1966 : Harrison) Executive Papers, 1962-1966. at the Library of Virginia

Adjunct Descriptive Data

Location of Originals

Original court records(6 boxes of records and 130 Dictabelt recordings)retained by the Danville (Va.) Circuit Court.

Contents List

Series I: Individual Case Files, A-Z
Digital files:

Consists of the individual files of persons arrested during the civil rights demonstrations of 1963. Files include bills of particulars, bond records, judgments, receipts and subpoenas. The files of juveniles arrested include biographical information, including age, education, prior arrests, and family history.

Digital files available Here: Series I: Individual Case Files, A-Z through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged alphabetically by last name

  • Folder List:
  • Adams, David
  • Adams, Julius Emanuel
  • Adams, Randy
  • Avery, Annie Pearl
  • Baines, Bruce
  • Banks, Clyde L
  • Barksdale, Ezell
  • Barton, Carolyn Sue
  • Barton, Georgia Jane
  • Beavers, Evelyn Holt
  • Beavers, Hattie M
  • Bethel, Irvin Chris
  • Bethel, Mabel Elizabeth
  • Boone, Percy Bradford
  • Bowe, Clarence Lewis
  • Bradshaw, Lendbury
  • Brown, Harrison, Jr
  • Brown, Luther Alfred
  • Bruce, Everett, Jr
  • Bruce, James Vondell
  • Burrell, Sylvester
  • Cain, Rosa Marie
  • Caldwell, Owen Calvin, Jr
  • Campbell, Lawrence G
  • Canada, Herman
  • Canada, William Burrell, Jr
  • Cardwell, Barbara
  • Carter, Cynthia Ann
  • Carter, Hazel Phyllis
  • Chaney, Claudia Anne
  • Chaney, Connie Lavonne
  • Chappelle, Herman Joseph
  • Chase, Elnora Elizabeth
  • Chase, Lendall Warren
  • Chase, Patricia Glendora
  • Clark, Lelia Virginia
  • Cobb, James, Jr
  • Coleman, Edith Mary
  • Coleman, James Edward
  • Coleman, John Roland
  • Coleman, Lawrence
  • Coleman, Margaret Lee
  • Coleman, Marion Johnson
  • Coleman, Silas
  • Cooke, Veronica Lane
  • Crews, Gilda Patricia
  • Crews, Mary Helen
  • Cunningham, John Thomas
  • Davis, David Lea
  • Davis, Elizabeth
  • Davis, Geneva Rogers
  • Davis, Harvey, Jr
  • Davis, John Lewis
  • Davis, Lizzie Spivey
  • Davis, Mary McAglean
  • Davis, Othia
  • Dawson, Cynthia Anne
  • Denson, Nelly
  • Deshazo, Joyce Ann Lewis
  • Dillard, Margaret P
  • Dixon, Betty Woods
  • Dixon, James, Jr
  • Dodson, Ellis Newton
  • Donaldson, Ivanhoe Gaylord
  • Dunlap, Alexander I
  • Echols, Charlie Henry
  • Echols, Thelma Farmer
  • Edwards, Claudia Jean
  • Elder, Audrey Jean
  • Ferguson, Bobby Lee
  • Ferguson, Ernest David
  • Ferguson, Mildred Luck
  • Ferrell, Lena Emmerson
  • Flemings, Mamie Lee
  • Foss, Daniel Aaron
  • Freeman, Ardelia
  • Gales, Dorothy
  • Gales, George Thomas
  • Gant, Frank Harrison
  • General, Samuel Lawrence
  • Giles, Gladys Virginia
  • Giles, Samuel Wash
  • Glass, Abraham
  • Glass, Archie
  • Glass, Joylette
  • Glass, Lorraine
  • Glass, Thomas Lee Jr
  • Goodwin, Richard Drummond
  • Graves, Carol Delores
  • Graves, Hubert
  • Graves, Mabel
  • Graves, Sylvester
  • Hairston, Annie Mae Lewis
  • Hairston, Charles Jr
  • Hairston, Ennis
  • Hairston, Geraldine
  • Hairston, Jesse
  • Hairston, Joseph Benjamin
  • Hairston, Leatrice Ann
  • Hairston, Penny Jean
  • Hairston, Ralph
  • Hall, Isiah
  • Hamlett, Jimmie
  • Hankins, Laverne
  • Harper, Gladys Marie
  • Harper, Sallie Mae
  • Harris, Gertie Williams
  • Harris, Ola Mae Cunningham
  • Harvest, Joe
  • Hatchett, Joseph Kenneth
  • Heitt, Sallie N
  • Hemphill, Robert, Jr
  • Hodnett, Cheryl Elaine
  • Hoffman, Ronald Leon
  • Holland, Wilma Ann
  • Holloway, Brenda
  • Holloway, Ruby Spraggins Wyllie
  • Holt, Buford Glendale
  • Holt, Grover Cleveland
  • Holt, Leonard Winston
  • Holt, Thomas Cleveland
  • Howard, Violet
  • Hubbard, Lillie Echols
  • Hughes, James Bernard
  • Hughes, Roberta
  • Hughes, Shirley Junior
  • Ingram, William Haywood
  • Jefferies, Iradell Graves
  • Jennings, Maggie Lou
  • Johns, Patrica Ann
  • Johnson, Annie Mae
  • Jones, Hortense
  • Jones, Matthew A
  • Karro, Anne Elliott
  • Kennedy, Penny
  • Kennedy, Sarah Mildred
  • Lancaster, Leslie Wisner
  • Lanier, Willie Terry
  • Lewis, Harry Michael
  • Lewis, Kenneth Lisberg
  • Lewis, Robert James
  • Lewis, Sylvia Ruth
  • Lindsey, Celester
  • Logan, Howard Lee
  • Logan, Orlando
  • Logan, Sally
  • Lumpkin, Dollie J
  • Lumpkin, John Thomas
  • Lumpkin, Otha Frank
  • Lynn, Edna Rose Irby
  • Mabin, Margie
  • Mason, Charlie Henry
  • Mason, Melvin
  • Mason, Myrtle
  • McCain, Daniel
  • McGhee, Evelyn Gray
  • McGhee, George Washington
  • McGhee, Hildreth Glennell
  • McKissick, Lawrence Hance
  • Middlebrook, Harold
  • Mingo, Stuart
  • Moore, Dorothy
  • Moore, Julia Ferguson
  • Moore, Roneatha
  • Morrison, Adell
  • Morton, Marilyn
  • Morton, Robert Lee
  • Murrell, Melba Graves
  • Muse, Maxine Luck
  • Nasper, Louie Martin
  • Page, Delores Jeanette
  • Payne, Charles Henry
  • Peterson, Brian Lee
  • Petty, Archie Lee
  • Pinchback, Arthur Jr
  • Pinchback, John Douglas
  • Pinchback, Larry
  • Pinchback, Margaret Ann
  • Pinchback, Nannie Louise
  • Poteat, Harvey Louis
  • Pounds, Barbara Ann
  • Powell, Rosetta
  • Price, Conrad
  • Price, Mary Laverne
  • Price, Paul
  • Prichett, Luvinia
  • Redd, General
  • Reeves, Marcellous
  • Reid, Milton A
  • Richardson, William Edward
  • Robertson, Delores Ellen
  • Robinson, Odaris
  • Rollins, Avon Williams
  • Saunders, Cordelia Ferguson
  • Saunders, Lonnie McKinley
  • Scales, Blondine Odessa
  • Scales, Don Marie
  • Scales, Dorothy James
  • Scales, James Malcolm
  • Schroeter, Lorraine Coatland Bowe
  • Scott, Earnestine
  • Scott, Geraldine Lee
  • Scott, Sir Walter
  • Scott, William Howard
  • Slade, Azzarie Benson
  • Smith, Dorothy Lee
  • Smith, Ernest Howard
  • Smith, Harvey
  • Smith, Michael
  • Smith, Vernice
  • Still, Elizabeth Phillips
  • Strader, Alice Lee
  • Summers, Maggie
  • Sutherlin, William Thomas
  • Terry, Barbara Ann
  • Terry, Margaret R
  • Terry, Shirley
  • Thomas, Marie
  • Thomas, Willie Ulysses
  • Thompson, Averett Wade
  • Thompson, William
  • Tredinnick, James Harry
  • Via, Dewey Wayne
  • Via, Edgar Lee
  • Via, Virginia Carol
  • Walters, Percy
  • Walters, Ralph Frank
  • Walton, Silvester, Jr
  • Warner, Melvin
  • Watkins, George Albert
  • Wharton, Ronald Eugene
  • Whipple, James Edward
  • White, Mary Etta
  • Wiles, Peggy
  • Williams, Maggie Maxine
  • Williams, Percy Randolph
  • Williams, Undra Ann
  • Wilson, Andrew Lewis
  • Wilson, Ann Gvonne
  • Wilson, Basse, Jr
  • Wilson, Frederick Douglas
  • Wilson, Harry, Jr
  • Wilson, Jacqueline Miller
  • Wilson, Larry James
  • Wilson, Margie Ann
  • Wilson, Melvin
  • Wilson, Rebecca Grasty
  • Womack, Eddie Mae
  • Womack, Estelle
  • Womack, Hester William
  • Womack, William Dexter
  • Wood, Virgil A
  • Woods, Pasadena
  • York, L. Wilson
  • Zellner, John Robert
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Series II: Howard Johnson Trespassing Case, 1963
Digital files:

Includes transcript of testimony and a notice of appeal and assignment of errors relating to the trial of Julius E. Adams, Lawrence G. Campbell, Lendall W. Chase, Alexander I. Dunlap, and Arthur Pinchback, Jr., arrested for trespassing on January 1, 1963 at the Howard Johnson restaurant on Route 29 south of Danville.

Digital files available Here: Series II: Howard Johnson Trespassing Case, 1963 through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged chronologically

  • Folder List:
  • Transcript of Testimony, Marrch 1963
  • Notice of Appeal and Assignment of Errors, May 1963
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Series III: Correspondence, 1963-1967
Digital files:

Primarily consists of correspondence between the clerk of the Danville Corporation Court and defense attorney, Ruth L. Harvey, regarding notices of appeal and assignments of errors, and designation of parts of the record. The latter of which she requests the clerk to forward to the clerk of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. Also, includes correspondence from the clerk of the Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals indicating receipt of specified materials, and a telegram from the Seattle, Washington, branch of the NAACP requesting information on the arrest of Lawrence G. Campbell and Richard D. Goodwin.

Digital files available Here: Series III: Correspondence, 1963-1967 through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged chronologically

  • Folder List:
  • Clerk, Danville Corporation Court, November-December 1963
  • Clerk, Danville Corporation Court, March 1964 - August 1967
  • Clerk, Danville Corporation Court, Seattle NAACP, August 1964
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Series IV: Corporation Court Dockets
Digital files:

Includes the Corporation Court's dockets for the demonstration cases from June 1963-April 1967. Lists name of defendant, alleged offense, date of offense, date of trial and disposition of case.

Digital files available Here: Series IV: Corporation Court Dockets through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged chronologically

  • Folder List:
  • Criminal Docket, June-September 1963
  • June-July 1963
  • June-August 1963
  • November 1963
  • February 1967
  • April 1967
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Series V: Court Orders
Digital files:

Consists of continuances, court orders, judgments, and sentences, issued by the Danville Corporation Court from June 1963-February 1973. Judge Aiken, from June 1963-May 1967, ordered the arrest of demonstrators for violating his injunction and inciting the colored populace, the appearance of demonstrators before the court to answer these violations, the investigation of the juvenile defendants, the serving of jail time and payment of fines, the acquittals of defendants, the consolidation of cases, and the changes of venue. The court orders issued January-February 1973 involved the disqualifying and recusing of the Danville Corporation Judge Stuart L. Craig, the selection of Judge Phillips to replace Craig, the subpoenaing of defense witnesses, and the suspension of jail sentences for the remaining defendants. Also, includes judgements issued by Judge Ted Dalton of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia in May 1967.

Digital files available Here: Series V: Court Orders through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged chronologically

  • Folder List:
  • June 1963
  • July 1963
  • August 1963
  • September 1963
  • November 1963
  • January - February 1964
  • February - May 1967
  • January - February 1973
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Virginia, May 1967
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Series VI: Evidence
Digital files:

Includes the June 7, 1963 issue of the Danville Bee and a note from the paper's general manager indicating the writer and photographer of the June 10, 1963 article entitled. "Thirty Demonstrators Jailed." Also includes excerpts from the July 10, 1963 meeting of the Danville City Council during which it passed an ordinance governing parades, a photocopy of the temporary injunction and restraining order issued by Judge Aiken, and photographs. The photographs show the demonstrators on the steps of city hall, and the arrest of Rev. Lawrence G. Campbell and Thurman Echols.

Digital files available Here: Series VI: Evidence through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged alphabetically by material type

  • Folder List:
  • Danville Bee
  • Danville City Council Meeting (excerpts from) - city ordinance governing parades, 1963 July 10
  • Motion, Affidavit, and Order for Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order, 1963 June 6
  • Photographs
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Series VII: Notes
Digital files:

Includes pieces of paper and lists indicating court cases, dates and places of offenses, trial dates, disposition of cases, and sentences.

Digital files available Here: Series VII: Notes through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

  • Folder List:
  • Court Cases, Dates and place of offenses, Trial dates
  • Sentences - Lawrence G. Campbell; Alexander I. Dunlap; Julius E. Adams; Arthur Pinchback, Jr.; Misc.
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Series VIII: Petitions
Digital files:

Consists of the Petition for Removal filed with the clerk of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia on June 17, 1963, by defense lawyers Len W. Holt and William M. Kunstler. The petition tried to remove the demonstration cases to federal court.

Digital files available Here: Series VIII: Petitions through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

  • Folder List:
  • Petition for Removal (filed for defendants), 1963 June 17
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Series IX: Receipts
Digital files:

Includes receipts for bond refunds and payment of fines.

Digital files available Here: Series IX: Receipts through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged loosely by the charge

  • Folder List:
  • Bond Refunds
  • Court Costs - Violation State Code Sec. 18.1-14
  • Court Costs - Inducing Minors to commit a Misdemeanor
  • Court Costs - Resisting Arrest
  • Court Costs - Trespassing
  • Court Costs - Violation City Code 16-20 (Parading without a Permit)
  • Court Costs - Violation of City Code Sec. 63 - 7.1, January 1964
  • Court Costs - Miscellaneous
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Series X: Special Grand Jury
Digital files:

Includes indictments and subpoenas from the Special Grand Jury responsible for indicting the demonstration leaders under "John Brown's Law." Contains names of the members of the grand jury.

Digital files available Here: Series X: Special Grand Jury through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged chronologically

  • Folder List:
  • Affidavit, Indictments, Motion, June 1963
  • Subpoenas, June-August 1963
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Series XI: Transcripts
Digital files:

Contains transcripts of testimony from:

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Lawrence G. Campbell, Alexander I. Dunlap, Arthur Pinchback, Jr., and Julius Adams, September 19, 1963

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Lawrence G. Campbell and Alexander I. Dunlap, Violation of Sections 18.1-14 and 18.1-254, October 22, 1963

Commonwealth of Virginia v. Avon Williams Rollins, August 6, 1963

City of Danville v. Lawrence G.Campbell, et als, October 1963

Digital files available Here: Series XI: Transcripts through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged by case

  • Folder List:
  • Commonwealth of Virginia v. Lawrence G. Campbell, A. I. Dunlap, Arthur Pinchback, and Julius Adams, September 1963
  • Commonwealth of Virginia v. Lawrence G. Campbell and A. I. Dunlap, October 1963
  • Commonwealth of Virginia v. Avon Williams Rollins, August 1963
  • City of Danville v. Lawrence G. Campbell, et als (Vol. I, p. 1-399), July- August 1963
  • City of Danville v. Lawrence G. Campbell, et als (Vol. II, p. 400-450), October 1963
  • City of Danville v. Lawrence G. Campbell, et als (Vol. II, p. 451-500), October 1963
  • City of Danville v. Lawrence G. Campbell, et als (Vol. II, p. 501-550), October 1963
  • City of Danville v. Lawrence G. Campbell, et als (Vol. II, p. 551-600), October 1963
  • City of Danville v. Lawrence G. Campbell, et als (Vol. II, p. 601-650), October 1963
  • City of Danville v. Lawrence G. Campbell, et als (Vol. II, p. 651-688), October 1963
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Series XII: Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Digital files:

Consists of decisions handed down from October 1965-December 1972. Primarily includes writs of error and supersedeas.

Digital files vailable Here: Series XII: Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

Contents arranged chronologically

  • Folder List:
  • Decisions, Doyle J. Thomas, et al, October 1965
  • Decisions, Lillie Echols Hubbard, October 1965 - January 1967
  • Decisions, March - October 1967
  • Decisions, March - June 1968
  • Decisions, June - November 1970
  • Decisions, January 1971, December 1972
  • Decisions, Lawrence George Campbell, et al. vs. City of Danville December 1972
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Series XIII: Dictabelts
Audio files 2k204-001 through 2k204-0123
audio files converted from 130 Dictabelts.

This series consists of full case recordings from many of the Civil Rights demonstrations cases heard in the Danville Corporation Court from December 1966 through April 1967. The recordings include witnesses' testimony, defense attorney's motions and arguments, Commonwealth and Danville City attorney's arguments, rulings and sentences of Judge Archibald M. Aiken, Jr., witness and recorder oaths, and the calling of the court docket.

This series is organized into 27 subseries (subseries A-AA), with each subseries representing one case. A majority of the cases documented in these audio recordings consist of dozens of individual cases consolidated and heard together on the charges of Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order. See the "defendants named" section in each subseries for the full list of individuals included in these consolidated cases. Names are listed in the order they occur in the audio, generally through the courts roll call. If abesent, the reason for the defendant's absence in placed in ( ) following the name. Additionally each subseries contains the belt list with information on the runtime and contents for each belt.

Also contained herein is the recording of the 1973 February 9 Corporation Court hearing concerning the defense motion to suspend the sentences for those defendants whose sentences had been upheld on appeal by the Supreme Court of Appeals.

The original Dictabelts included wrapper containing written summaries of their audio contents, noting the approximate time the content appears in the recording. In some cases, copies of the original court docket also accompany the original Dictabelt. These wrappers and docket records are now digitized and available with the audio files available through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

  • Series III:Subseries A: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13-14
    Belts 1-15 [2k204-001- 2k204-015]
    Total run time: 5 hours, 31 minutes, 58 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Irvin Christopher Bethel; Lendbury Bradshaw; Donald Jerome Brandon (indicate as in Vietnam); Harrison Brown Jr.; Everett Bruce Jr. (college); Victor Hugo Burton; Barbara Cardwell (in Washington); James Cobb Jr.; John Roland Coleman; Lawrence Coleman; Clifton Henry Davis (armed forces); David Lea Davis (college); Wayne Rochelle Davis; Ellis Newton Dodson; Charlie Henry Echols (in New York); Daniel Aaron Foss (University of Iowa); Melvin Fuller (Navy); Gladys Virginia Giles (Atlantic City, NJ, Teaching); Samule Wash Giles (Atlantic City NJ); Robert Leonard Graves; William Haywood Ingram; John James (Army); James Johnson; Robert James Lewis; Margie Mabin; Thomas Mabin (New York); Charlie Henry Mason; Wilson Lee Maden (Army); James Thomas Moore (Army);Marilyn Morton (Washington); Hildreth Glennell McGhee; Archie Lee Petty, Harvey Louis Poteat; Herman Prichett (in jail); Luvinia Prichett; Avon Wiliams Rollins (Washington); William Howard Scott; Percy Walters; Ralph Frank Walters; Melvin Warner; George Albert Watkins; James Edward Whipple; Jimmy Ray Hurston (penitentiary, life sentence); Michael Smith; Bertie Smith; Sylvester Burrell (jail); Harvey Davis Jr.; Mabel Graves (sick); Ennis Hairston; Ola Mae Cunningham Harris; Leonard Winston Holt; Joe Wesley Lewis; Stuart Mingo; Robert Morton; Marcelluos Reeves; Willie Ulysses Thomas; John Robert Zellner (New York); Eugene Bennett; Ernest Howard Smith; Sylvester Graves; Jesse Hairston; Otha Frank Lumpkin Annie Mae Johnson; Harvey Smith; Robert Hemphill Jr. (Army); Daniel McCain; Paul Price; Alberta Via Tathatter [?]; Shirely Terry; Averett Wade Thompson; Ivanhoe Gaylord Thompson (Atlanta, college)

    • Belt 1: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-001
      Run time: 27:14

      Contents
      Defendants roll call
      arguments in Judge's chambers in re: consolidating cases

    • Belt 2: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-002
      Run time: 27:56

      Contents
      Attorneys' arguments in Judge's chambers in re: consolidating cases (continued)
      Reading of Judge's injunction issued 6 June 1963
      Defendants' pleas

    • Belt 3: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-003
      Run time: 29:59

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony

    • Belt 4: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-004
      Run time: 29:59

      Contents
      Charles Wade Graff (police officer and photographer) testimony
      T. Neil Morris (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 5: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-005
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      L. P. Rigney (police officer) testimony
      Curtis H. Royster (police officer) testimony
      W. L. Buettner (police officer) testimony
      Curtis H. Royster recall testimony
      Adjournment
      Reconvene
      T. C. Tatterhorn (police officer) testimony
      R. W. Brumfield (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 6: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-006
      Run time: 27:01

      Contents
      W. L. Sheffield (police officer) testimony
      C. L. Fuller (police officer) testimony
      R. A. Walker (police officer) testimony
      D. E. Nostrand (police officer) testimony
      B. C. Enyard (police officer) testimony
      John M. Bailey (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 7: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-007
      Run time: 26:48

      Contents
      John M. Bailey testimony (continued)
      Unidentified (police officer) testimony
      T. W. Evans (police officer) testimony
      Sutaliff (police officer) testimony
      Unidentified (police officer) testimony
      L. P. Rigney (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 8: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 13
      2k204-008
      Run time: 25:33

      Contents
      Ernest Howard Smith (demonstrator) testimony
      Defense attorneys' motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Adjournment and weather report

    • Belt 9: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 14
      2k204-009
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      Convene and roll call
      Approach bench - discussion
      Charles Wade Graff (police officer and photographer) testimony
      Juby E. Towler (chief of police detectives) testimony

    • Belt 10: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 14
      2k204-010
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      Juby E. Towler testimony (continued)
      City attorney argument against defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Defense attorney re-argues motion to strike evidence

    • Belt 11: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 14
      2k204-011
      Run time: 29:04

      Contents
      Defense attorney re-argues motion to strike evidence (continued)
      Judge's ruling on motion (denied)
      Adjournment
      Reconvene
      Defense motion to remove some defendant's names from case docket

    • Belt 12: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 14
      2k204-012
      Run time: 10:19

      Contents
      Defense attorney motion to strike evidence and witness testimony (continued)
      Judge's ruling on motion (denied)
      James Edward Whipple (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 13: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 14
      2k204-013
      Run time: 28:41

      Contents
      James Edward Whipple testimony (continued)
      W. L. Buettner recall testimony
      Unidentified (police officer) recall testimony
      Prosecution rests
      Defense closing

    • Belt 14: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 14
      2k204-014
      Run time: 29:53

      Contents
      Defense closing (continued)
      Prosecution closing
      Judge's ruling and sentences

    • Belt 15: Irvin Christopher Bethel, et. als., 1966 December 14
      2k204-015
      Run time: 9:15

      Contents
      Attorneys' arguments in Judge's chambers in re: bond hearing for absentee defendants
      Adjournment

  • Series III:Subseries B: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15-16
    Belts 1-12 [2k204-016 through 2k204-025: Track 1 and Track 2]
    Total run time: 5 hours, 19 minutes, 20 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Sylvester Burrell, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Sylvester Burrell; Harvey Davis Jr.; Mabel Graves; Ennis Hairston; Ola Mae Cunningham Harris; Leonard Winston Holt (removed, heard at later date); Joe Wesley Lewis (Army); Stuart Mingo; Robert Morton; Marcellos Reeves; Willie Ulysses Thomas; Sylvester Graves; Jesse Hairston; Harvey Smith; Robert Hemphill Jr. (Army); Annie Mae Johnson; Otha Frank Lumpkin; Daniel McCain; Paul Price; Alberta Viatanian [?]; Shirley Terry; Averett Wade Thompson; Ivanhoe Gaylord Donaldson (college)

    • Belt 1: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-016
      Run time: 29:53

      Contents
      Convene
      Recorder sworn
      Defendants roll call
      Cases consolidated
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony

    • Belt 2: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-017
      Run time: 30:01

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)

    • Belt 3: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-018
      Run time: 29:28

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)
      Recess
      Reconvene
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)

    • Belt 4: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-019
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)

    • Belt 5: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-020
      Run time: 29:59

      Contents
      T. Neil Morris (police officer) testimony
      Lunch recess
      Reconvene
      T. Neil Morris testimony (continued)
      harles Wade Graff (police officer and photographer) testimony

    • Belt 6: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-021
      Run time: 29:44

      Contents
      Charles Wade Graff testimony (continued)
      Attorneys' arguments in Judge's chambers in re: photographs and time of their development
      Charles Wade Graff testimony (continued)
      Juby E. Towler (chief of police detectives) testimony

    • Belt 7: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-022
      Run time: 29:37

      Contents
      Juby E. Towler testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Re-re-direct
      Re-re-cross
      Ralph Wilkerson (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Charles Wade Graff recall testimony
      Recess
      Reconvene
      B. C. Elliott Jr. (police officer) testimony
      Attorneys' arguments in Judge's chambers in re: photographs and time of their development
      Charles Wade Graff testimony (continued)
      Juby E. Towler (chief of police detectives) testimony

    • Belt 8: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-023
      Run time: 29:34

      Contents
      B. C. Elliott Jr. testimony (continued) testimony
      Prosecution and Defense rests
      Defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Judge's ruling on motion (denied)
      Defense motion to strike because arrest did not occur at time of violation
      Judge's ruling on motion (denied)
      Recess
      Reconvene
      Wade Thompson (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 9: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-024
      Run time: 29:36

      Contents
      Wade Thompson testimony (continued)
      Harvey Smith (demonstrator) testimony
      Paul Price (demonstrator) testimony
      Stuart Walter Mayo (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 10: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 15
      2k204-025
      Run time: 11:17

      Contents
      Otha Frank Lumpkin (demonstrator) testimony
      Adjournment

    • Belt 11: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 16
      Track 1
      Run time: 28:19

      Contents
      Reconvene
      Defense renews motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Defense motion to dismiss against 5 defendants because prosecution has not proven a case
      Commonwealth argument against motion
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Prosecution opening argument
      Defense closing argument
      Judge questions Defense attorneys
      Prosecution closing argument
      Judge's ruling and sentences

    • Belt 12: Sylvester Burrell, et. als., 1966 December 16
      Track 2
      Run time: 11:49

      Contents
      Judge's ruling and sentences (continued) [unclear, distorted sound]
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries C: James Edward Whipple, 1966 December 16
    Belt 1 [2k204-026]
    Total run time: 3 minutes 43 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: James Edward Whipple through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Perjury

    Defendants Named: James Edward Whipple

    • Belt 1: James Edward Whipple, 1966 December 16
      2k204-026
      Run time: 3:43

      Contents
      Prosecution motion for a bench warrant to be issued for the arrest of James Edward Whipple on a charge of perjury
      Judge's ruling on motion (granted)

  • Series III:Subseries D: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 16-19
    Belts 1-10 [2k204-072 through 076 and 2k204-027 through 030]
    Total run time: 4 hours,37 minutes, 52 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Joseph Bowe, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Joseph Bowe; Cynthia Ann Carter; L.W. Chase, Gineva Rogers Davis, Lizzie Spivey Davis, Jimmie Hamlett; Thomas Cleveland Holt; General Redd; William Edward Richardson; Isiah Hall; James Dixon jr.; Eddie Mae Womack; Estelle Womack; Doyle J. Thomas; Alice Lee Strader; Celester Lindsey; Percy Randolph Williams; Walter Link

    • Belt 1: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 16
      2k204-072
      Run time: 27:22

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Defendants roll call
      Defendants' pleas

    • Belt 2: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 16
      2k204-073
      Run time: 29:00

      Contents
      Walter Link (demonstrator) guilty plea
      Judge's sentence
      Adjournment
      Reconvene
      Stipulate injunction become part of the record
      Defendants' pleas
      T. Neil Morris (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 3: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 16
      2k204-074
      Run time: 28:17

      Contents
      T. Neil Morris testimony (continued)
      Charles Wade Graff (police officer and photographer) testimony
      B. C. Elliott Jr. (police officer) testimony
      William G. Doss (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 4: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 16
      2k204-075
      Run time: 28:24

      Contents
      William G. Doss testimony (continued)
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony

    • Belt 5: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 16
      2k204-076
      Run time: 16:56

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)
      Recess and adjournment until Monday, 19 December

    • Belt 6: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 19
      2k204-027
      Run time: 29:48

      Contents
      Reconvene
      W. L. Sheffield (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 7: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 19
      2k204-028
      Run time: 29:37

      Contents
      P. L. Rowland (police officer) testimony
      T. C. Talley (police officer) testimony
      Recess
      Reconvene
      Eugene G. McCain recall testimony

    • Belt 8: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 19
      2k204-029
      Run time: 29:26

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain recall testimony (continued)
      Prosecution rests
      City motion to dismiss cases against Joseph Bowe, Reverend Doyle J. Thomas, and Paul Wade Jr.
      Judge grants and dismisses cases
      Defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Judge's ruling on motion (denied)
      B. C. Elliott recall testimony
      Recess
      Reconvene
      Percy Randolph Williams (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 9: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 19
      2k204-030
      Run time: 29:30

      Contents
      Percy Randolph Williams testimony (continued)
      Thomas F. Tucker (Danville Clerk of Court) testimony
      Defense rests
      Defense motion to show cause
      Defense motion to quash capias

    • Belt 10: Joseph Bowe, et. als., 1966 December 19
      2k204-031
      Run time: 29:30

      Contents
      Defense motion to quash capias (continued)
      City argument and rebuttal against motion
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Defense renews motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Defense motions (various)
      Judge's ruling on motions (overruled)
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries E: Ruth L. Harvey, 1966 December 20
    Belts 1 [2k204-077]
    Total run time: 2 minutes and 16 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Ruth L. Harvey through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Contempt of court

    Defendants Named: Ruth L. Harvey

    • Belt 1: Ruth L. Harvey, 1966 December 20
      2k204-077
      Run time: 2:16

      Contents
      Ruth L. Harvey held in contempt of court for misleading court on location of Leonard Winston Holt (demonstrator/defendant)
      Judge fines Harvey $25

  • Series III:Subseries F: Everett Bruce Jr., et. Als, 1966 December 20
    Belts 1-5 [2k204-078 through 2k204-082]
    Total run time: 1 hour, 55 minutes, 4 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Everett Bruce Jr., et. Als through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: L. W. Chase; Everett Bruce Jr; Barbara Cardwell (June 10th; college); Charlie Henry Echols; Daniel Aaron Foss (june 10th offense); Gladys Virginia Giles; Samuel Wash Giles; Thomas Madin; Charlie Henry Mason (hospital in DC); Marilyn Morton; Avon Williams Rollins; Mabel Graves; Leonard Winston Holt; Robert Morton Jr. ; John Robert Zellner; Bruce Baines; Hazel Phyllis Carter; James Edward Coleman; Daniel Aaron Foss (additional charge on June 15th); Abraham Glass; Joseph Benjamin Hairston; Leatrice Ann Hairston; Lavern Higgins; Violet Howard (doctoral school); Lillie Echols Hubbard; Annie Mae Johnson (jail); Dorothy Elizabeth Moore; Harry Wilson Jr.; Margie Ann Wilson; Milton A. Reid; Ivanhoe Gaylord Donaldson

    • Belt 1: Everett Bruce Jr., et. Als, 1966 December 20
      2k204-078
      Run time: 28:17

      Contents
      Convene
      Recorder sworn
      Docket set
      Reverend L. W. Chase statement (found guilty in absence on 19 December 1966)
      Judge's ruling and sentence for Chase
      Defense motion to suspend pending appeal
      Recess
      Reconvene

    • Belt 2: Everett Bruce Jr., et. Als, 1966 December 20
      2k204-079
      Run time: 28:00

      Contents
      Defendants roll call
      Bonds forfeited for those defendants who are absent
      Leonard Winston Holt (demonstrator) case in absentia

    • Belt 3: Everett Bruce Jr., et. Als, 1966 December 20
      2k204-080
      Run time: 11:31

      Contents
      Hector Womack (bondsman for Leonard Winston Holt) testimony as to location of Holt Adjournment

    • Belt 4: Everett Bruce Jr., et. Als, 1966 December 20
      2k204-081
      Run time: 28:08

      Contents
      Leonard Winston Holt bond forfeited
      Judge's ruling and sentence of Holt
      Defense motion to suspend sentence pending appeal
      Recess
      Thomas Mabin (demonstrator) testimony
      Betty H. Dallas (juvenile probation officer) testimony
      Thomas Mabin case dismissed
      Judge's ruling and sentences remaining defendants

    • Belt 5: Everett Bruce Jr., et. Als, 1966 December 20
      2k204-082
      Run time: 19:07

      Contents
      Judge's ruling and sentences (continued)

  • Series III:Subseries G: Foss, Zelner and Donaldson, 1966 December 23
    Belts 1-3 [2k204-083 through 2k204-085]
    Total run time: 1 hour, 13 minutes, 16 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Foss, Zelner and Donaldson through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge:Contempt of Court (being absent)

    Defendants Named: Daniel Aaron Foss; Robert Zellner; Ivanhoe Gaylord Donaldson

    • Belt 1: Foss, Zelner and Donaldson, 1966 December 23
      2k204-083
      Run time: 28:37

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Defendants roll call
      Witnesses sworn
      John Robert Zelner (demonstrator) testimony
      Defense argument

    • Belt 1: Foss, Zelner and Donaldson, 1966 December 23
      2k204-084
      Run time: 26:57

      Contents
      Prosecution argument
      Judge's ruling and sentence
      Motion to suspend sentence pending appeal
      Daniel Aaron Foss (demonstrator) testimony
      Defense argument
      Judge's ruling and sentence

    • Belt 1: Foss, Zelner and Donaldson, 1966 December 23
      2k204-085
      Run time: 17:41

      Contents
      Ivanhoe Gaylord Donaldson (demonstrator) testimony
      Defense argument
      Prosecution argument
      Judge's ruling and sentence
      Motion to suspend sentence pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries H: Setting the court docket, 1967 February 7
    Belts 1-5 [2k204-086 through 2k204-090]
    Total run time: 1 hour, 34 minutes, 51 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Setting the court docket through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    • Belt 1: Setting the court docket, 1967 February 7
      2k204-086
      Run time: 26:23

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Defense and Prosecution argument and discussion in re: injunction
      1967 February 9 Docket set and announced

    • Belt 2: Setting the court docket, 1967 February 7
      2k204-087
      Run time: 27:09

      Contents
      1967 February 10 docket set (24 demonstrators arrested behind Police Department on 1963 July 11)
      1967 February 10 docket set (continued: 12 demonstrators arrested at Belk-Leggett Department Store on 1963 July 11)
      1967 February 10 docket set (continued: 3 demonstrators arrested at Municipal Building on 1963 July 11)
      1967 February 13 docket set (15 demonstrators arrested at Municipal Building on 1963 July 11)
      1967 February 13 docket set (continued: demonstrators arrested at Patton and Union Streets on 1963 July 12)
      1967 February 14 docket set (demonstrators arrested at Belk-Leggett Department Store on 1963 July 12)
      1967 February 14 docket set (continued: demonstrators arrested at Patton and Union Streets on 1963 July 12)

    • Belt 3: Setting the court docket, 1967 February 7
      2k204-088
      Run time: 27:36

      Contents
      1967 February 14 docket set (continued: demonstrators arrested at Belk-Leggett Department Store and Raylass Department Store on 1963 July 13)
      1967 February 14 docket set (continued: demonstrators arrested at Country Club Drive on 1963 July 14)
      1967 February 15 docket set (demonstrators arrested at Main and Crawford Streets on 1963 July 15)
      1967 February 16 docket set (81 demonstrators arrested at Main and Union Streets on 1963 July 28)
      1967 February 16 docket set (continued: 4 demonstrators arrested at Main Street Bridge on 1963 August 6)
      1967 February 20 docket set (9 demonstrators arrested at Union Street on 1963 August 8)
      1967 February 20 docket set (continued: demonstrators arrested at Main and Union Streets on 1963 August 27)

    • Belt 4: Setting the court docket, 1967 February 7
      2k204-089
      Run time: 9:40

      Contents
      1967 February 20 docket set (continued: demonstrators arrested at Main and Union Streets on 29 August 1963)
      1967 February 14 docket omissions added
      Adjournment until Thursday

    • Belt 5: Setting the court docket, 1967 February 7
      2k204-090
      Run time: 4:01

      Contents
      Discussion in Judge's chambers [unclear, difficult to hear]

  • Series III:Subseries I: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
    Belts 1-7 [2k204-091 through 2k204-097]
    Total run time:2 hours, 43 minutes, 35 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Clarence Lewis Bowe; William Burrell Canada, Jr.; Claudia Anne Chaney; Connie Lavonne Chaney; Elnora Elizabeth Chase; Patricia Glendora Chase; Lelia Virginia Clark; Edith Mary Coleman; Elizabeth Davis; Cynthia Anne Dawson; Thelma Farmer Echols; Claudia Jean Edwards; Ernest David Ferguson; Joylette Glass; Lorraine Glass; Kenneth Lisberg Lewis; Howard Lee Logan; Sally Logan; Myrtle Mason; Julia Ferguson Moore; Rosetta Powell; Lonnie McKinley Saunders; Blondine Odessa Scales; Don Marie Scales; Dorothy James Scales; Earnestine Scott; Geraldine Lee Scott; Rebecca Grasty Wilson (hospital in DC); Pasadena Woods

    • Belt 1: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
      2k204-091
      Run time: 25:32

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Defendants roll call (3 defendants tried in absentia)
      Witnesses sworn
      Defense motion to quash capias
      Defense motion for bill of particulars
      Judge's ruling on motions (overruled)
      Commonwealth's attorney's notes exception to bill of particulars
      Norman H. Boswell (captain of police) testimony

    • Belt 2: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
      2k204-092
      Run time: 24:59

      Contents
      Norman H. Boswell testimony (continued)
      Judge questions witness
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Leon Townsend (Danville Register-Bee photographer) testimony
      Re-direct

    • Belt 3: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
      2k204-093
      Run time: 28:36

      Contents
      Leon Townsend testimony (continued)
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony
      B. C. Elliott Jr. (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 4: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
      2k204-094
      Run time: 29:24

      Contents
      B. C. Elliott Jr. testimony (continued)
      Recess
      Reconven
      B. C. Elliott Jr. testimony (continued)
      William G. Doss (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross

    • Belt 5: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
      2k204-095
      Run time: 26:38

      Contents
      C. L. Fuller (police officer) testimony
      P. L. Rowland (police officer) testimony
      Ralph Wilkinson (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 6: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
      2k204-096
      Run time: 28:11

      Contents
      Ralph Wilkinson testimony (continued)
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motion
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Prosecution argument against motion
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Defense rests
      Closing arguments
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

    • Belt 7: Clarence Lewis Bowe, et. als., 1967 February 9
      2k204-097
      Run time: 00:13

      Contents
      [No intelligible content]

  • Series III:Subseries J: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 10-15
    Belts 1-8 [2k204-098 through 2k204-105]
    Total run time: 3 hours, 16 minutes, 2 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: James Vondell Bruce, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: James Vondell Bruce; Herman Canada; Sylvester Canada; Connie Lavonne Chaney; James Edward Coleman (potentially in jail); Lawrence Coleman; John Thomas Cunningham; Clifton Henry Davis (in the service); Nelly Denson; Bobby Lee Ferguson; Samuel Wash Giles; Archie Glass (was in an accident; in DC); Hubert Graves; Roberta Hughes; William Haywood Ingram; Harry Michael Lewis; Robert James Lewis; Dollie J. Lumkpin; Conrad Price; James Malcom Scales; Sir Walter Scott; Ralph Frank Walters; Larry White (in the service); Basse Wilson Jr.

    • Belt 1: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 10
      2k204-098
      Run time: 29:39

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Docket called
      Witnesses sworn
      Defense motion to quash capias
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony

    • Belt 2: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 10
      2k204-099
      Run time: 26:23

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)
      Judge questions witness
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      T. G. Faulkner (police officer) testimony
      E. L. Holley (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 3: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 10
      2k204-100
      Run time: 26:51

      Contents
      E. L. Holley testimony (continued)
      Recess
      Reconvene
      E. L. Holley testimony (continued)
      Norman H. Boswell (captain of police) testimony
      L. P. Rigney (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      C. B. Scearce (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 4: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 10
      2k204-101
      Run time: 27:37

      Contents
      C. B. Scearce testimony (continued)
      J. B. Martin Jr. (police officer) testimony
      W. L. Buettner (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct/ John M. Bailey (police officer) testimony
      Norman H. Boswell recall testimony

    • Belt 5: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 10
      2k204-102
      Run time: 26:34

      Contents
      Norman H. Boswell recall testimony (continued)
      H. R. Chaney (police officer) testimony
      J. C. Lewis (police officer) testimony
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Defense motions renewed
      Judge's ruling on renewed motions (overruled)
      Charles Wade Graff (police officer and photographer) testimony
      Juby E. Towler (captain of police) testimony
      Defense rests
      Prosecution waives opening remarks
      Defense closing argument

    • Belt 6: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 10
      2k204-103
      Run time: 19:45

      Contents
      Defense closing argument (continued)
      Prosecution closing remarks
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

    • Belt 7: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-104
      Run time: 28:36

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Witnesses sworn
      T. G. Faulkner (police officer) testimony
      Defense motion in re: double jeopardy
      Judge's ruling on motion (denied)
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Re-re-direct
      James L. Miller (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 8: James Vondell Bruce, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-105
      Run time: 10:35

      Contents
      James L. Miller testimony (continued)
      Walter Riddle testimony
      Prosecution rests
      Defense renews motion in re: double jeopardy
      Defense rests
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries K: William Burrell Canada, et. als., 1967 February 13
    Belts 1-3 [2k204-106 through 2k204-108]
    Total run time: 1 hour, 12 minutes, 2 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII:William Burrell Canada, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: William Burrell Canada; Cynthia Ann Carter; John Lewis Davis; Cynthia Anne Dawson; Joylette Camila Glass; Lorraine Glass (sick); Sallie Mae Harper; Ronda Holloway; Mary Laverne Price; Mary Etta White (recently had a child)

    • Belt 1: William Burrell Canada, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-106
      Run time: 28:33

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Witnesses sworn
      Defense motions renewed
      Judge's ruling on motions (overruled)
      Lonnie Riddle (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      J. W. Martin (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 2: William Burrell Canada, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-107
      Run time: 28:18

      Contents
      J. W. Martin testimony (continued)
      L. P. Rigney (police officer) testimony
      W. L. Buettner (police officer) testimony
      C. B. Scearce (police officer) testimony
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motions renewed
      Prosecution arguments against defense motions

    • Belt 3: William Burrell Canada, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-108
      Run time: 15:10

      Contents
      Prosecution argument against defense motions (continued)
      Judge's ruling on motions (overruled)
      Defense rests
      Judge's ruling and sentences

  • Series III:Subseries L: Herman Joseph Chappelle, et. als., 1967 February 13
    Belt 1 [2k204-109]
    Total run time: 11 minutes 32 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Herman Joseph Chappelle, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Herman Joseph Chappelle; Lararia Marintez Hutchins; James J. Marsden; Virginia Banks; Charles Samuel Beard; Anita Glass (sick); Hazel Joanne Lindsey (sick); Howard Lee Logan; Cecil McIntire; Robert Lou Osborne[?]

    • Belt 1: Herman Joseph Chappelle, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-109
      Run time: 11:43

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Witnesses sworn
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony
      Nolle pros'd (all 10 defendants' cases dismissed)

  • Series III:Subseries M: Elnora Elizabeth Chase, et. als., 1967 February 13
    Belts 1-5 [2k204-119 through 2k204-1023]
    Total run time: 1 hour, 51 minutes, 13 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Elnora Elizabeth Chase, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Elnora Elizabeth Chase; Lindell Warren Chase; Patricia Glendora Chase; Claudia Jean Edwards; Sylvia Ruth Lewis; Sally Ann Logan; Lonnie McKinley Saunders; Larry James Wilson; Virgil Alexander Wood (sick- debated in court); Frank Harrison Gant; Thomas Cleveland Holt; Matthew A. Jones; William Thompson; Sylvester Walton Jr.

    • Belt 1: Elnora Elizabeth Chase, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-119
      Run time: 24:30

      Contents
      Nolle pros'd (continued: from previous trial of Herman Joseph Chappelle, et. als.)
      Recorder sworn
      Docket called
      Cases consolidated
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony
      Recess

    • Belt 2: Elnora Elizabeth Chase, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-120
      Run time: 26:46

      Contents
      Reconvene
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      C. E. Earles (police officer) testimony
      T. C. Talley (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 3: Elnora Elizabeth Chase, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-121
      Run time: 27:07

      Contents
      T. C. Talley testimony (continued)
      R. W. Brumfield (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Roy Larsen (police officer) testimony
      Curtis H. Royster (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct/ P. L. Barber (police officer) testimony
      E. L. Carter (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct

    • Belt 4: Elnora Elizabeth Chase, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-122
      Run time: 27:33

      Contents
      D. L. Haley (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Recess
      Reconvene
      Defense rests
      Judge's ruling and sentences

    • Belt 5: Elnora Elizabeth Chase, et. als., 1967 February 13
      2k204-123
      Run time: 5:14

      Contents
      Judge's ruling and sentences (continued)
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries N: David Adams, et. als, 1967 February 14
    Belts 1-6 [2k204-110 through 2k204-115]
    Total run time: 2 hours, 10 minutes, 4 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: David Adams, et. als through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: David Adams; Ennis Hariston (in the service); Ralph McDonald Hairston; James Bernard Hughes; Hortense Jones; Willie Thomas Cornodel [?] (in the Army); James Thomas Moore (in the Army); Charles Henry Payne; Edgar Lee Via; Andrew Lewis Wilson

    • Belt 1: David Adams, et. als, 1967 February 14
      2k204-110
      Run time: 27:49

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Defense motions
      P. L. Rowland (police officer) testimony
      C. L. Fuller (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 2: David Adams, et. als, 1967 February 14
      2k204-111
      Run time: 29:59

      Contents
      C. L. Fuller testimony (continued)
      Jackson H. Brown (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Curtis H. Royster (police officer) testimony
      Thomas W. Evans (police officer) testimony
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony

    • Belt 3: David Adams, et. als, 1967 February 14
      2k204-112
      Run time: 29:20

      Contents
      Defense motion to strike evidence and witness testimony (continued)
      Edgar Lee Via (demonstrator) testimony
      Ralph McDonald Hairston (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 4: David Adams, et. als, 1967 February 14
      2k204-113
      Run time: 13:36

      Contents
      Ralph McDonald Hairston testimony (continued)

    • Belt 5: David Adams, et. als, 1967 February 14
      2k204-114
      Run time: 28:09

      Contents
      Ralph McDonald Hairston testimony (continued)
      Defense rests
      James A. H. Ferguson (Danville City Attorney) testimony
      Re-direct
      Prosecution motion for a bench warrant to be issued for the arrest of Edgar Lee
      Via on a charge of perjury
      Prosecution and Defense rests
      Defense motion to dismiss
      Judge's ruling and sentences

    • Belt 6: David Adams, et. als, 1967 February 14
      2k204-115
      Run time: 2:09

      Contents
      Judge's ruling and sentences (continued)

  • Series III:Subseries O: Mabel Elizabeth Bethel, et. als., 1967 February 14
    Belts 1-2 [2k204-116 through 2k204-117]
    Total run time: 44 minutes, 54 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Mabel Elizabeth Bethel, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Mabel Elizabeth Bethel; Hazel Phyllis Carter (sick); Violet Howard (incarcerated); Kenneth Lisberg Lewis

    • Belt 1: Mabel Elizabeth Bethel, et. als., 1967 February 14
      2k204-116
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Defense motions
      Lonnie Riddle (police officer) testimony
      Defense motion in re: double jeopardy
      Lonnie Riddle testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Re-re-direct, etc. (5x)

    • Belt 2: Mabel Elizabeth Bethel, et. als., 1967 February 14
      2k204-117
      Run time: 14:54

      Contents
      Prosecution rests
      Defense closing argument
      Prosecution closing argument
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries P: Mary MacAglean Davis, et. als., 1967 February 14
    Belts 1[2k204-118]
    Total run time: 23 minutes, 52 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Mary MacAglean Davis, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Julius Adams (separate case); Mary MacAglean Davis; Laverne Hankins; Cheryl Elaine Hodnett; Evelyn Gray McGhee

    • Belt 1: Mary MacAglean Davis, et. als., 1967 February 14
      2k204-118
      Run time: 23:52

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Prosecution requests postponement
      Judge grants postponement
      Remaining cases consolidated
      Defense motions stipulated
      Lonnie Riddle (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Defense motions to strike evidence and witness testimony and in re: double jeopardy
      Defense rests
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal
      Recess

  • Series III:Subseries Q: Gloria Jane Barton, et. als., 1967 February 15
    Belts 1-2 [2k204-032 through 2k204-033]
    Total run time: 50 minutes, 53 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Gloria Jane Barton, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order [Offense Date: July 13, 1963 Belk- Legett]

    Defendants Named: Gloria Jane Barton; Irvin Chris Bethel; Ronald Eugene Horton; Frederick Douglas Wilson (in the service); George Thomas Gales; John James (in service); John Thomas Lumpkin; Margaret Read Terry (sick)

    • Belt 1: Gloria Jane Barton, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-032
      Run time: 31:26

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Defense motions stipulated
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony
      G. W. Platt (general merchandise manager at Belk-Leggett Company) testimony
      L. P. Rigney (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      W. L. Buettner (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross

    • Belt 2: Gloria Jane Barton, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-033
      Run time: 19:26

      Contents
      L. A. Howerton (police officer) testimony
      H. R. Chaney (police officer) testimony
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motions renewed
      Defense rests
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries R: Evelyn Holt Beavers, et. als., 1967 February 15
    Belts 1-2 [2k204-034 through 2k204-035]
    Total run time: 41 minutes, 4 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Evelyn Holt Beavers, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order

    Defendants Named: Evelyn Holt Beavers; Mildred Luck Ferguson; Penny Jean Hairston; Buford Glendale Holt (in the service, AWOL); Cordelia Ferguson Saunders; Ann Gvonne Wilson

    • Belt 1: Evelyn Holt Beavers, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-034
      Run time:31:04

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Lonnie Riddle (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motions renewed
      Defense motion to dismiss

    • Belt 2: Evelyn Holt Beavers, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-035
      Run time:10:00

      Contents
      Defense motion to dismiss (continued)
      Prosecution argument against motions
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries S: Maggie Lou Jennings, et. als., 1967 February 15
    Belts 1-2 [2k204-036 through 2k204-037]
    Total run time: 35 minutes, 29 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Maggie Lou Jennings, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order [offense date: 7/15/1963]

    Defendants Named: Maggie Lou Jennings (High School , NJ); Penny Kennedy; Sarah Mildred Kennedy; Delores Ellen Robertson; Barbara Ann Terry

    • Belt 1: Maggie Lou Jennings, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-036
      Run time: 31:19

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Norman H. Boswell (police officer) testimony
      Juby E. Towler (captain of police) testimony

    • Belt 2: Maggie Lou Jennings, et. als., 1967 February 15
      2k204-037
      Run time: 04:10

      Contents
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motions renewed
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries T: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16-20
    Belts 1-19[2k204-038 through 2k204-056]
    Total run time: 8 hours, 21 minutes, 47 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Randy Adams, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order [offense date: July 28th 1963]

    Defendants Named: Randy Adams; Annie Pearl Avery; Clyde Langston Banks; Emmett Lee Banks; Carolyn Sue Barton; Valerie Bonner (industiral school for girls); Percy Bradford Boone; John Allen Bowels Jr (in the service); Luther Alfred Brown; Rosa Marie Cain; Owen Calvin Caldwell Jr.; Samuel Caldwell; Irvin Wendell Chase; Elnora Elizabeth Chase; Lelia Virginia Clark; Margaret Lee Coleman; Marion Johnson Coleman; Silas Coleman; Gilda Patricia Crews; Mary Helen Crews; Othia Davis; John Roosevelt Dodson (possibly deceased); Lena Emmerson Ferrel; Ardelia Freeman; Dorothy Gales; Thomas Lee Glass Jr.; Richard Drummond Goodwin (sick; discussion of criminal record; continued); Mabel Graves; Annie Mae Lewis Hairston; Alfred William Harper Jr.; Glayds Marie Harper; Gertie Williams Harris; Joe Harvest; Joseph Kenneth Hatechett; Ronald Leon Hoffman; Ruby Spraggins Wyllie Holloway; Grover Cleveland Holt; Iradell Graves Jefferies; Leslie Wisner Lancaster; Willie Terry Lanier; Willie Terry Lanier, Jr. (in the service); Joyce Ann Lewis Deshazo; Edna Rose Irby Lynn; Melvin Mason; Adell Morrison; Melba Graves Murrell; Maxine Luck Muse; Robert Lee Morton; Lawrence Hance McKissick; Robert Earl Overbick (in the service); Delores Jeanette Page; Brian Lee Peterson; Arthur Pinchback Jr.; Barbara Ann Townes (sick); Luvinia Prichett; Robert Lewis Waterman (in the service); Steve Jerome Reid; Odaris Robinson; Lorraine Coatland Bowe Schroeter; Lazaria Benton Slade; Dorothy Lee Smith; Claude Stevenson (in the service); Elizabeth Phillips Still; Maggie Julian Summers; William Thomas Sutherlin; Marie Thomas; Robert Lee Trapp; Virginia Carol Via; Maggie Maxine Williams; Undra Ann Williams (in hospital); Jacqueline Miller Wilson; Melvin Wilson; Garland Witherspoon; Hester William Womack; William Dexter Womack; L. Wilson York; John Robert Zellner

    • Belt 1: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-038
      Run time: 30:04

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Announcement of Charles Luther Morgan (attorney from Lynchburg for the Defense)
      Cases consolidated
      Defense motions
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony

    • Belt 2: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-039
      Run time: 29:40

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)

    • Belt 3: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-040
      Run time: 29:39

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)

    • Belt 4: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-041
      Run time: 26:10

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)
      Recess for lunch
      Reconvene
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)
      Re-direct

    • Belt 5: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-042
      Run time: 29:16

      Contents
      Eugene G. McCain testimony (continued)
      Re-cross
      Re-re-direct, etc. (4x)
      Lonnie Riddle (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 6: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-043
      Run time:15:52

      Contents
      Lonnie Riddle testimony (continued)
      Thomas W. Evans (police officer) testimony
      [Recorder took belt off to check machine]

    • Belt 7: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-044
      Run time:29:04

      Contents
      Thomas W. Evans testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Recess
      Reconvene
      Willard Osborne (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Jackson Brown (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 8: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-045
      Run time:29:15

      Contents
      Jackson Brown testimony (continued)
      John W. Martin Jr. (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      T. Neal Morris (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 9: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 16
      2k204-046
      Run time:22:57

      Contents
      T. Neal Morris testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Re-re-direct
      B. G. Buchanan (police officer) testimony
      Coley Boone (records officer, police officer and photographer) testimony
      Adjournment

    • Belt 10: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-047
      Run time:30:28

      Contents
      Reconvene
      Walter Brown (police officer and photographer) testimony
      Juby E. Towler (police captain) testimony

    • Belt 11: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-048
      Run time:29:33

      Contents
      Juby E. Towler testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      John M. Bailey (police officer) testimony
      C. W. Howerton (police officer) testimony
      Defense motions renewed
      Defense motions to strike evidence and witness testimony
      Prosecution argument against Defense motions
      Defense argument
      Judge's ruling on motions (overruled)
      Emmett Lee Banks (demonstrator from Chatham) testimony

    • Belt 12: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-049
      Run time:29:06

      Contents
      Emmett Lee Banks testimony (continued)
      Defense motion
      Clyde L. Banks (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 13: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-050
      Run time:26:08

      Contents
      Clyde L. Banks testimony (continued)
      Emmett Banks Case dismissed
      Recess
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony
      Re-direct
      Lonnie Riddle (police officer) recall testimony
      L. Wilson York (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 14: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-051
      Run time:29:26

      Contents
      L. Wilson York testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Othea Davis (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 15: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-052
      Run time:29:09

      Contents
      Othea Davis testimony (continued)
      Joseph Hatchett (demonstrator) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Reverend Lawrence Wendell Chase (pastor at High Street Baptist Church) testimony

    • Belt 16: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-053
      Run time:28:53

      Contents
      Reverend Lawrence Wendell Chase testimony (continued)
      Elaine Elizabeth Chase (demonstrator) Case dismissed
      Robert L. Trent (demonstrator) testimony
      Robert L. Trent Case dismissed
      Defense rests
      Defense motions
      Judge's ruling on motions (overruled)
      Prosecution waives opening argument
      Defense argument

    • Belt 17: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 17
      2k204-054
      Run time:21:55

      Contents
      Defense argument (continued)
      Prosecution argument
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Adjournment until Monday

    • Belt 18: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-055
      Run time:28:53

      Contents
      Reconvened
      Docket called Judge's ruling and sentences (continued)

    • Belt 19: Randy Adams, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-056
      Run time:06:13

      Contents
      Judge's ruling and sentences (continued)

  • Series III:Subseries U: Bruce Baines, et. als., 1967 February 20
    Belts 1 [2k204-057]
    Total run time: 1 minute, 11 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Bruce Baines, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Not specified

    Defendants Named: [names not given just case numbers]

    • Belt 1: Bruce Baines, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-057
      Run time:1:11

      Contents
      Prosecution motion to Nolle Pros'd cases numbered 327-335
      Judge grants motion
      Adjournment

  • Series III:Subseries V: James Coleman, et. als., 1967 February 20
    Belts 1-3 [2k204-058 through 2k204-060]
    Total run time:1 hour, 3 minutes, 22 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: James Coleman, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order [offense date: August 27, 1963]

    Defendants Named: James Coleman (on parole); Carol Delores Graves; Orlando Logan; Louie Martin Nasper (Berkley, CA); Samuel Wash Giles (injured leg); Harold Middlebrook (sick, in hospital, Tennessee); Lawrence Campbell; Betty Woods Dixon; Hubert Graves; Samuel Lawrence General; Geraldine Hairston

    • Belt 1: James Coleman, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-058
      Run time: 29:13

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Cases consolidated
      Defense motions
      Eugene G. McCain (chief of police) testimony
      C. W. Howerton (police officer) testimony

    • Belt 2: James Coleman, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-059
      Run time: 29:15

      Contents
      C. W. Howerton testimony (continued)
      Re-direct
      Charles Wade Graff (police officer and photographer) testimony
      Coley Boone (records officer, police officer and photographer) testimony
      Defense motions
      Prosecution argument against motion
      Judge's ruling on motion (overruled)
      Defense rests
      Defense argument

    • Belt 3: James Coleman, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-060
      Run time: 4:53

      Contents
      Defense argument (continued)
      Judge's ruling and sentences

  • Series III:Subseries W: Sallie Mae Harper, et. als., 1967 February 20
    Belts 1-2 [2k204-061 through 2k204-062]
    Total run time: 49 minutes, 40 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Sallie Mae Harper, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Violation of Temporary Injunction and Restraining Order [Offense date: August , 1963]

    Defendants Named: Sallie Mae Harper; Sally N. Heitt; Margaret Ann Pinchback; Larry Wilson

    • Belt 1: Sallie Mae Harper, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-061
      Run time: 28:24

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Docket called
      Defense motions stipulated
      T. Neal Morris (police officer) testimony
      Norman H. Boswell (police officer) testimony
      Charles Wade Graff (police officer and photographer) testimony

    • Belt 2: Sallie Mae Harper, et. als., 1967 February 20
      2k204-062
      Run time: 21:16

      Contents
      Charles Wade Graff testimony (continued)
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motions
      Recess
      Reconvene
      Defense argument
      Defense rests
      Defense argument
      Judge's ruling and sentences
      Defense motion to suspend sentences pending appeal

  • Series III:Subseries X: Julius Emanuel Adams, et. als., 1967 February 21
    Belts 1-2 [2k204-063 through 2k204-064]
    Total run time: 44 minutes, 47 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Julius Emanuel Adams, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Date of Offense: July 12, 1963

    Defendants Named: Julius Emanuel Adams

    • Belt 1: Julius Emanuel Adams, et. als., 1967 February 21
      2k204-063
      Run time: 29:14

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Defense motions
      Lonnie Riddle (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      L. P. Rigney (police officer) testimony
      Reverend Frances F. McFarland testimony
      Re-direct
      Evelyn Gray McGhee (demonstrator) testimony

    • Belt 2: Julius Emanuel Adams, et. als., 1967 February 21
      2k204-064
      Run time: 15:32

      Contents
      Mary Davis testimony (continued)
      Prosecution rests
      Defense motions
      Judge's ruling and sentences

  • Series III:Subseries Y: Barbara Caldwell, et. als., 1967 April 6
    Belts 1-3 [2k204-065 through 2k204-067]
    Total run time: 1 hour, 2 minutes, 57 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Barbara Caldwell, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: [Civil Cases docket]

    Defendants Named: Barbara Caldwell; Daniel Aaron Foss; L. W. Holt; John Robert Zellner; James E. Coleman; Abraham Glass; Joseph B. Hairston; Harry Wilson; Margie Ann Wilson; Ivanhoe Gaylord Donaldson; Harold Middlebrook

    • Belt 1: Barbara Caldwell, et. als., 1967 April 6
      2k204-065
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Defense argument
      Prosecution argument
      Defense argument

    • Belt 2: Barbara Caldwell, et. als., 1967 April 6
      2k204-066
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      Defense argument (continued)
      Prosecution argument
      Judge's ruling and sentences

    • Belt 3: Barbara Caldwell, et. als., 1967 April 6
      2k204-067
      Run time: 2:57

      Contents
      Judge's ruling and sentences (continued)

  • Series III:Subseries Z: Connie Lavonne Chaney, et. als., 1967 April 6
    Belt 1 [2k204-068]
    Total run time: 5 minutes, 13 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Connie Lavonne Chaney, et. als. through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: Unspecified

    Defendants Named: Connie Lavonne Chaney; David Lea Davis; Ruth Anita Ferrll; Annette Ada Glass; Charles Junior Hairston; Wilmar Ann Holland; Willie Lewis Madison; Ernestine Scott; Geraldine Lee Scott (Hood); Vernice Smith; Elouise Stamps; Dewey Wayne Via; Jon Norman Westling; Peggy Wiles;

    • Belt 1: Connie Lavonne Chaney, et. als., 1967 April 6
      2k204-068
      Run time: 5:13

      Contents
      Judge's ruling and sentences (continued: from previous case)
      Prosecution motion to Nolle Pros'd cases numbered 354-363
      Judge grants motion

  • Series III:Subseries AA: Lawrence George Campbell, A. I. Dunlap, Julius E. Adams, and Arthur Pinchback, Jr., 1973 February 9
    Belts 1-3 [2k204-069 through 2k204-071]
    Total run time: 1 hour, 16 minutes, 38 seconds

    Audio files available here: Series XIII: Lawrence George Campbell, A. I. Dunlap, Julius E. Adams, and Arthur Pinchback through the Library of Virginia's Digital Collections Discovery

    Charge: suspension of sentence hearing

    Defendants Named: Lawrence George Campbell; Alexander Isaiah Dunlap; Julius Emanuel Adams; and Arthur Pinchback, Jr.

    • Belt 1: Lawrence George Campbell, A. I. Dunlap, Julius E. Adams, and Arthur, 1973 February 9
      2k204-069
      Run time: 30:00

      Contents
      Recorder sworn
      Defense motion
      Judge's ruling on motion (denied)
      T. Neal Morris (police officer) testimony
      Re-direct
      Re-cross
      Howard Lee (minister) testimony
      Everette L. Motley (Danville Public Schools) testimony
      Charles H. Harris (bank cashier) testimony

    • Belt 2: Lawrence George Campbell, A. I. Dunlap, Julius E. Adams, and Arthur, 1973 February 9
      2k204-070
      Run time: 34:26

      Contents
      Reverend Samuel Griffith testimony
      M. C. Martin (banker) testimony
      Wesley H. Motley Jr. testimony
      Roger Edwards testimony
      Julian R. Stinson testimony
      Doyle J. Thomas testimony
      Defense rests

    • Belt 3: Lawrence George Campbell, A. I. Dunlap, Julius E. Adams, and Arthur, 1973 February 9
      2k204-071
      Run time: 12:12

      Contents
      Defense argument
      Judge's ruling and sentences

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