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Passive resistance

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Title:Passive resistance
Date:1959-1975
Description:

Section of online exhibit outlining some of the ways white parents and school boards passively resisted court-ordered school integration following the end of the Massive Resistance campaign including racial bias in the Pupil Placement Board and white flight. The page includes two black-and-white photographs from the Virginia Historical Society and the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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Types:Black-and-white photographs | Web sites
Subjects:African Americans--Segregation--Virginia | Civil rights movements--Virginia | African Americans--Civil rights--Virginia | Education--Virginia | Segregation in education--Virginia | African Americans--Education | De facto school segregation--Virginia | Passive resistance--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 | Richmond Times-Dispatch | Civil Rights Movement in Virginia Collection (Virginia Historical Society)
Online Publisher:[Richmond (Va.)] : Virginia Historical Society
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Forms part of: The Civil Rights movement in Virginia (Virginia Historical Society)

Persistent Link to Item:http://www.vahistorical.org/civilrights/passiveresistance.htm