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School Desegregation And Urban Renewal In Norfolk, 1950-1959, Forrest R. (Hap) White
School Desegregation And Urban Renewal In Norfolk, 1950-1959, Forrest R. (Hap) White
Theses and Dissertations in Urban Services - Urban Education
Although a number of scholars have examined the impact that the U.S. Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision had upon local school policies, there is a paucity of research on what repercussions that decision may have had upon a broad range of other related municipal issues. This historical case study explores the effect that opposition to court ordered school integration had upon the placement of school buildings and urban renewal projects in one Southern city, Norfolk, Virginia, where there was strong reason to believe that the municipal powers of school plant planning, redevelopment, and city planning were deliberately …
The Peaceful Resolution Of Norfolk's Integration Crisis Of 1958-1959, Nancy Parker Ford
The Peaceful Resolution Of Norfolk's Integration Crisis Of 1958-1959, Nancy Parker Ford
History Theses & Dissertations
In 1958 Norfolk experienced one of the most serious crises in its long history when six of its public secondary schools were closed by the governor. The closings were a result of Virginia's massive resistance program and forced 10,000 students to seek alternative education for five months or abandon their education entirely. Interviews with major participants in the crisis as well as investigation of newspaper accounts and editorials, personal papers of participants, city and School Board documents, and major works on the period reveal the factors involved in Norfolk's peaceful approach to integration. A comparison with the situation in Little …