Much of what has been written about local, state, and national approaches related to the desegregation of public schools focuses on administrative concerns, policy debates, and other issues faced by schools, yet there are still many stories of initiatives designed to facilitate school integration in the twentieth century to be told. The lives, the struggles, and the triumphs of people who did so much to transform the nature of public education are often lost in the mist of time; resurrecting their stories is often the challenge of the historian. This paper evolved from research the author began over ten years ago while writing the centennial history, "The Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia, 1905-2005: Preparing Men and Women for Leadership in Scientific Educational Work."