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Title	[Letter from Benjamin L. Smith to Warren Ashby]
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 September 24, 1956 letter from Greensboro school superintendent, Benjamin L. Smith, to Warren Ashby thanks Ashby 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.01210.0985
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	Septanfcer 24, 1956 Dr. Warren Aahby The Womana College, UHC Greensboro, North Carolina Bear Dr. Aahby: The delay in answering your good letter with respect to my position re^rdiui the Supreme CsWft decision on Segregation, has been camso by the press of cfutles Chat wwid not W£tU I want you to know that 1 am tsost grateful to you for your kind words of encouragement: and offer of support* I appreciate both more than 1 can teli you* I shall need the backing of people like you in the days to come. With sentiment* of the highest regard and warmest esteem, Yours cordially9 Superintendent
OCLC number	884367526

[Letter from Benjamin L. Smith to Warren Ashby]

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