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The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia

The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia

Lassiter, Matthew D.
Lewis, Andrew B.

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Black American StudiesRegional: SouthSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0813918170
ISBN13: 9780813918174
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Oct 29 1998
Pages: 251
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.17 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

In 1958, facing court-ordered integration, Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. closed public schools in three cities, one of the first instances of the massive resistance embraced by conservative southern politicians in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education. This action provoked not only the NAACP but also large numbers of white middle-class Virginians who quickly organized to protest the school closings. Confronted with the dilemma of accepting desegregation or the ruination of public education, these white moderates finally coalesced into a formidable political coalition that defeated the massive resistance forces in 1959.

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