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Norfolk was one of six communities that was impacted by this event, which involved school closings. This displaced 10,000 students and was considered the largest school closing in Virginia. [ 3 ]
The Kanawha County Textbook War, also known as the Kanawha County Textbook Controversy, was a violent school control struggle in the 20th century United States. It led to the largest protests ever in the history of Kanawha County, West Virginia, the shooting of one bystander, and extended school closings. The controversy erupted in 1974 when ...
By 1959, J. Lindsay Almond had become Governor of Virginia, and faced with continuing losses in the courts, he dismantled the system of segregated schools in that state. Nevertheless, the Board of Supervisors for Prince Edward County refused to appropriate any funds for the County School Board at all, effectively closing all public schools ...
The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...
The controversy centers on the Virginia State Board of Education's recent decision to modify the accreditation process for public schools, aligning with Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin's push ...
The school board in Shenandoah County, Virginia, plans to vote Thursday on a proposal that would restore the names of Confederate military leaders to two public schools, according to a meeting ...
Massive resistance was a campaign by Virginia's conservative Democrats to prevent public school desegregation after the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954. It involved passing laws, closing schools, and creating private segregated academies, but was eventually overturned by federal courts.
A historic site and museum in Farmville, Virginia, where a student strike in 1951 led to the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case. Learn about the civil rights history of the Moton School and the county's education system through exhibits, oral histories and programs.