Virginia Enacts Massive Resistance Laws Authorizing School Closures to Prevent Integration
Following Senator Harry F. Byrd’s February 24, 1956 call for “massive resistance” to avoid implementing public school integration in Virginia, the Byrd Organization-controlled Virginia General Assembly passes a series of laws in September 1956 known as the Stanley Plan (after …
Harry F. Byrd
Thomas Bahnson Stanley
Virginia General Assembly
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