Source

State Archives of Florida, Series S776

Description

Letter from John J. Blair, a member of Governor LeRoy Collins' Advisory Committee on Race Relations, to Judge Leo Luke Fabisinski, another member of the committee. The letter provides a timeline of events in the case of Virgil Hawkins, an African American man seeking admission to the law school at the University of Florida, dating from Hawkins' original petition to the Supreme Court of Florida in 1949 through the hearing in 1956 in which the State Board of Control reported on how integration would affect Florida's institutions of higher learning.

Date

1956-06-12

Creator

Blair, John J.

Format

Letters (correspondence)

Coverage

Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

Topic

Slavery and Race Relations

Subjects

Florida. Supreme Court.
Hawkins, Virgil, 1906-1988
Murphree, John Alexander Henderson, 1904-1987
Segregation
Segregation in education
United States. Supreme Court.
University of Florida (Gainesville, Fla.)

Geographic Term

Gainesville
Alachua County
Pensacola
Escambia County