Richmond to integrate classes at two schools - racially segregated elementary schools in Richmond, Virginia - Brief Article

Jet, March 15, 1993

Two elementary schools in Richmond, Va., recently ended its policy of segregating classes by race as the superintendent there began reassigning students.

In a unanimous vote, the school board approved Superintendent Lucille M. Brown's reassignment plan for the Bellevue Model and Ginter Park schools.

White students at the predominantly Black schools have been grouped together to form predominantly White classes at each grade level and the other classes were entirely Black (Jet, March 8).

A maximum of 76 Bellevue and 32 Ginter Park pupils, both Black and White, will be moved to new homerooms.

The Rev. Hylan Carter, a Black parent who complained Dec. 1 about clustering, said the unanimous vote was "splendid." Carter's son attends Bellevue.

Sylvia Richardson, the principal at Bellevue, had explained to Rev. Carter in a letter that she had clustered White students for "social and emotional reasons."