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...teacher of history and government in one of the large high schools in Norfolk, I wish to thank you for your very excellent article on "Virginia-The Gravest Crisis" [Sept. 22]. It gives a clear picture of our state political philosophy. If our secondary schools in Norfolk are closed by these laws, approximately 10,000 children will be denied an education. These children are going to be some of the leaders of the U.S., and our country's future depends on them. Closing the schools, destroying public education, and defying federal law is not helping provide sound leadership...
SHIRLEY V. BLOXTON Norfolk...
Under Virginia's "massive resistance" program, Governor J. Lindsay Almond Jr. last week ordered Norfolk's six high schools closed to keep 17 Negro children out of white classrooms. That brought the state's padlocked-schools total to nine (one in Front Royal, two in Almond's native town of Charlottesville). But it was a lot easier to close schools than to get them opened again without any integration. Eager as he was to find gimmicks of delay, Lawyer Almond frankly admitted that he considered a Faubus-type school-leasing plan too obviously illegal...
...private corporation proceeded with plans to set up segregated schools for white high school pupils idled by Faubus' order closing four schools. But a plan for private instruction of 10,000 high school students in Norfolk, Va., fell through because the planning group failed to obtain services of a single public school teacher...
...NORFOLK (pop. 314,600). After failing to stop a federal order to integrate 17 Negro pupils, the school board postponed the opening of the fall term to Sept. 29. hoped to get satisfaction in circuit court. If it fails again, the board will admit the Negroes, and Governor Almond, invoking his massive-resistance laws, will shut down Norfolk's six Negro and white senior and junior high schools. As in Charlottesville, segregationist parents busily devised plans to provide classrooms in private homes and churches. But even before the plans were well under way, the "Norfolk Committee for Public Schools...