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| Title: | Massive resistance |
| Date: | 1954-1959 |
| Description: | Section of online exhibit outlining the massive, organized white resistance to the courts' school integration orders. The page includes six black-and-white photographs, two political cartoons, and a ballot from an election in 1958 from the Virginia Historical Society, the Library of Congress, and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Black-and-white photographs | Editorial cartoons | Ballots | Web sites |
| Subjects: | Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986 | African Americans--Segregation--Virginia | Civil rights movements--Virginia | African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia | Education--Virginia | Segregation in education--Virginia | African Americans--Education | School integration--Massive resistance movement--Virginia | Virginia |
| Collection: | Civil Rights Movement in Virginia : An Exhibition on Display February 7 - June 19, 2004 |
| Institution: | Virginia Historical Society |
| Contributors: | Virginia Historical Society | Library of Congress | Richmond Times-Dispatch | Civil Rights Movement in Virginia Collection (Virginia Historical Society) |
| Online Publisher: | [Richmond (Va.)] : Virginia Historical Society |
| Related Materials: | Forms part of: The Civil Rights movement in Virginia (Virginia Historical Society) |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.vahistorical.org/civilrights/massiveresistance.htm |
