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Public School Desegregation In Virginia During The Post-Brown Decade,, Carl W. Tobias Jan 1996

Public School Desegregation In Virginia During The Post-Brown Decade,, Carl W. Tobias

Law Faculty Publications

Professor Tobias chronicles the social, political, and legal dimensions of Virginia's slow path to school desegregation following the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education ruling. He compares Virginia's "massive resistance" strategy to the less recalcitrant approach of neighboring North Carolina.


Virginia History As Southern History: The Nineteenth Century, Edward L. Ayers Jan 1996

Virginia History As Southern History: The Nineteenth Century, Edward L. Ayers

History Faculty Publications

This essay briefly surveys some of the best work that has been done over the last ten years or so in the field of nineteenth-century Virginia and southern history in general, hoping to supply inspiration for histories yet to be written.