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Guerrilla War. It was perhaps Harry Byrd's closest approach to demagoguery. Virginia has nothing like the problem confronting other Southern states in desegregation. About 52% of the state's 3,759,000 citizens live in areas with less than a 10% Negro population; if the whites accepted school desegregation, their children would no more be inundated than white children in Chicago or Kansas City, Mo. Only 15% of Virginians dwell in communities of more than 40% Negro. When the Supreme Court handed down its school desegregation decision, Virginia reacted with calm reasonableness. Governor Thomas B. Stanley...
...Virginia's cultists, the Gray plan had a fatal defect: it offered local option on desegregation, and the Washington suburb of Arlington, for one, announced that it would integrate. Urged on by the hard core of his political following, Harry Byrd decreed against Virginia's white children being thus mixed in school (although many of them play unaffectedly with Negro youngsters from babyhood). At Byrd's bidding, Governor Stanley called a special legislative session and presented it with 23 bills, setting up a "defense in depth" against desegregation. As passed by the legislature, the program ensured...
...Harry Byrd's segregation program has met opposition even within his organization. Says Byrd-dogging Political Leader William Lee Prieur Jr. of industrial, Navy-base Norfolk: "After the program came out, I got the Norfolk legislators in here, and we agreed we just couldn't go along. I called Harry Byrd and I said, 'You're wrong on this. We can't support you.' He said, 'The people of Virginia will never accept desegregation. I'm going to resist this as long as I can.' " Says Norfolk's Democratic Mayor...
Towards Yesterday. Tragically, the Byrd program has hurt most what Harry Byrd is trying to protect: the education of Virginia's children. Construction of needed school facilities is lagging badly; school boards are hard put to find buyers willing to invest in Virginia's confusion...
...been carefully legalistic (with such grim exceptions as Mrs. Roger Boyle's charred cross). But its less sophisticated sister states, following the bare pattern of their leader, have distorted Virginia's program into outright defiance of the Supreme Court. At his homeland's present crossroads, Harry Byrd is waving the South in a wrong direction that will be remembered long after he has departed...