Word: virginia
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Your article on Governor Almond and integration left out a few pertinent facts. How about the thousands of families that have moved from the "District" here in Washington, probably with financial loss, to make new homes in Arlington and Fairfax counties in Virginia? They did so obviously to escape a decree of the U.S. Supreme Court...
...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...
...most closely reasoned, carefully pinpointed opinion of the whole desegregation struggle, the Supreme Court last week struck at the massive Southern attempts to avoid compliance with its 1954 integration order. Specifically, the court aimed its opinion at Arkansas' Governor Orval Faubus-but its effect would be felt in Virginia and in any other Southern state that had placed hopes for resistance in hedgerows of state laws...
...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...
...note, the elder Isaacs stated: "We are all profoundly humiliated and endangered by what is going on in Arkansas and Virginia and throughout the South wherever the diehard racists are in command...