TDAS04
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« on: August 16, 2019, 07:39:41 PM » |
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During the civil rights era, Virginia was arguably the most staunchly segregationist state outside the Deep South.
When the Southern Manifesto against Brown v. Board of Education was signed by various Southern members of Congress, entire delegations from 7 states signed it: The 5 Deep South states, plus Arkansas and Virginia. Virginia was the only state from which even the Republicans were signatories.
Senator Harry Byrd led “Massive Resistance”, in which entire school districts were shut down to avoid integration.
Virginia’s Congressional delegation unanimously opposed both the CRA of 1964 and the VRA of 1965.
Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, Virginia was the only non-Deep South State in its entirety to be covered (parts of NC were also).
Why was Virginia so segregationist?
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