Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. Credit score: Houchins Picture
U.S. Sen. Harry F. Byrd Sr. coined the time period “Large Resistance” to unite white leaders in Virginia of their marketing campaign to protect segregation. The coverage appealed to white Virginians’ racial views, their fears and their disdain for federal “intrusion” into the “Southern lifestyle.”
Virginia handed legal guidelines to disclaim state funds to any built-in faculty and created tuition grants for college kids who refused to attend these faculties. Different states copied its method. When courts ordered desegregation in a number of faculties in Charlottesville and Norfolk, Virginia Gov. James Lindsay Almond Jr. ordered these faculties closed. When Almond continued that defiance, 29 of the state’s main businessmen instructed him in December 1958 that the disaster was adversely affecting Virginia’s economic system. Two months later, the governor proposed a measure to repeal the closure legal guidelines and allow desegregation.
On Feb. 2, 1959, 17 Black college students in Norfolk and 4 in Arlington County peacefully enrolled in what had been all-white faculties.
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by Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi Immediately February 24, 2023
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The tales of investigative reporter Jerry Mitchell have helped put 4 Klansmen and a serial killer behind bars. His tales have additionally helped free two folks from demise row, uncovered injustices and corruption, prompting investigations and reforms in addition to the firings of boards and officers. He’s a Pulitzer Prize finalist, a longtime member of Investigative Reporters & Editors, and a winner of greater than 30 different nationwide awards, together with a $500,000 MacArthur “genius” grant. After working for 3 a long time for the statewide Clarion-Ledger, Mitchell left in 2019 and based the Mississippi Middle for Investigative Reporting.
