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