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LEOMA R. COOPER Norfolk...
...maze of pro-segregation laws was foredoomed to failure. Editor Virginius Dabney's Times-Dispatch called for an assembly commission to think up new defensive tactics, and Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick's News Leader even talked about the possibility of limited, local-option integration. When the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
...Norfolk (six high schools shut down). In two similar lawsuits naming Almond and various state officials as defendants, 15 white parents asked a federal district court to 1) declare Virginia's school-closing law unconstitutional, and 2) enjoin Almond & Co. from meddling with Norfolk schools. The school closings, argued the suits, violate the children's constitutional rights, do them "irreparable injury." and impose unfair financial burdens on the parents. Norfolk's Committee for Public Schools sent Almond a 6,000-signature petition asking him to get the schools reopened fast...
...some vague way he realized the vastness of the institution and yet he was repulsed by the club-going class which dominated the University in the 1920's. He detested "that species of knickerbockered, golf-stockined, Norfolk-jacketed, lisping ass...." The shallow glibness and "blase sophistication" of many of his associates filled him with disgust...
...Virginia's Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. angrily denounced the Supreme Court opinion but also decided "to defer for the present" a plan to reopen only those classes to which Negroes have not been admitted by court order. In Norfolk, salted with Northerners and heavily dependent on the big U.S. Navy base for business, the tongue-in-cheek city council took the next step prescribed by Virginia's massive resistance laws, asked Almond to reopen the schools on a segregated basis. Almond ignored the petition; it was plainly an effort to make him directly responsible for defying court...