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Title	[Letter from Benjamin L. Smith to Edward F. Burrows]
Date	1956-09-24
Creator	Smith, Benjamin Lee
Biographical/historical note	Benjamin Lee Smith was born February 6, 1893 in, Caldwell County, N.C. He received his A.B. from Duke University in 1916, and his M.A. from Duke in 1937. He served as superintendent of schools in the western North Carolina cities of Forest City, Rutherford-Spindale, and Shelby before assuming the same position in Greensboro, N.C., in 1935. His twenty-three year tenure in Greensboro included the years immediately following the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision ordering desegregation of public schools. In 1959, he participated in the National Civil Rights hearing on school integration. Smith died in 1961. Ben L. Smith High School in Greensboro is named for him.
Subject headings	Segregation in education--United States Race relations
Topics	School desegregation, 1954-1958
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This one-page letter from Benjamin L. Smith to Edward F. Burrows, dated September 24, 1956, thanks Burrows for his letter of support regarding his position on school desegregation.
Type	text
Original format	correspondence
Original dimensions	8.5" x 11"
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University
Source collection	RL.01210 Benjamin Lee Smith Papers
Finding aid link	http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/smithbenjaminlee/
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
Additional rights information	COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	Duke_RL.01210.0981
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
Full text	September 24, 1956 Dr. Edward F. Burrows Assistant Professor Department of History Guilford College Guilford College, K. C. Dear Dr# Burrows: You were most kind to write me same days ago in commendation of a statement which I made* I appreciate it more than I can say, 1 am sorry the press of Juties has delayed my reply, but I do want you to know that it meant a great deal to me to hear from you, and I shall try even harder to be worthy of your trust and regard. With sentiments of appreciation, I am, tours cordially, Superintendent
OCLC number	884367527

[Letter from Benjamin L. Smith to Edward F. Burrows]

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