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Collis P. Huntington High School

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advocate, whose own wages were supplemented by voluntary parental contributions, in November 1937 chastised his daughter for accepting a job in Newport News that paid her a third less per month than a beginning white teacher earned. This led to a unanimous vote by the Virginia State Teachers
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eastern District titles and seven VIA state championships. Huntington track and field squads, also under Madden, won 19 VIA state championships and were declared seven times runners-up after the VIA integrated with the Virginia High School League.
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Association to file equal-pay lawsuits in partnership with the NAACP. This move paved the way to a statewide campaign attacking the legal basis for school segregation. Palmer was sacked from the school in 1943 for his activism.
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Huntington's football team, coached by Thad Madden from 1943 through 1971, had 28 straight winning seasons, compiling a 251-114-16 record. Madden's Huntington teams won sixteen
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Thaddeus E. Hayes, founder of Thaddeus Hayes Dance Theatre (ca. 1928-April 26, 2000)
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The Athletic Hall of Fame of the Lower Virginia Peninsula, "Thad Madden" (n.d.),
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Former African-American high school during the racial segregation era
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biography from Athletic Hall of Fame of the Lower Virginia Peninsula
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Lutrelle Palmer, the principal of Huntington High, also a strong
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Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum, "Thad Madden" (n.d.),
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Historically segregated African-American schools in Virginia
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biography from Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
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Coordinates
36°59′22″N 76°24′54.5″W / 36.98944°N 76.415139°W / 36.98944; -76.415139
East End section
Newport News, Virginia
desegregation
Collis P. Huntington
Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company
NAACP
Virginia Interscholastic Association
Joe Durham
MLB
Baltimore Orioles
St. Louis Cardinals
Hazel R. O'Leary
http://vshfm.com/hall/induct_madden.html
Archived
Wayback Machine
http://hampton.gov/DocumentCenter/Home/View/283
"THADDEUS E. HAYES"
No Easy Journey
biography from Virginia Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
biography from Athletic Hall of Fame of the Lower Virginia Peninsula
Walter Nathaniel Ridley
Hazel O'Leary
HR0188
Huntington Middle School
Categories
Historically segregated African-American schools in Virginia
Defunct schools in Virginia
Educational institutions established in 1927

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