TY  - GEN
T1  - Standing before the shouting mob : Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's massive resistance to public-school integration
A1  - Leidholdt, Alexander
LA  - English
PP  - Tuscaloosa
PB  - University of Alabama Press
YR  - 1997
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm45728081
AB  - In 1958 the nation's attention was focused on Norfolk, Virginia, where nearly ten thousand students were locked out of their schools. Rather than comply with the desegregation mandate of Brown v. Board of Education, Governor J. Lindsay Almond, supported by the powerful political machine of Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr., had closed Norfolk's white secondary schools.
AB  - Massive resistance to integration transformed Norfolk into a civil rights arena. Although the process by which Norfolk's schools were integrated was far from orderly, the transition was characterized by debate, political maneuvering, and judicial action - not violence. Lenoir Chambers, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, conducted an editorial campaign supporting the peaceful implementation of the Court's order. Utilizing a wide range of primary and secondary sources, Standing before the Shouting Mob examines Chambers's campaign, explores the influences that shaped his racial views, and places him within the context of southern journalism. The book also provides a detailed analysis of Virginia's massive resistance and Norfolk's school closing.
OP  - 172
CN  - LC214.22.V8 L45 1997eb
SN  - 0585281270
SN  - 9780585281278
SN  - 081730858X
SN  - 9780817308582
KW  - Chambers, Lenoir, : 1891-1970 : Views on school integration.
KW  - Chambers, Lenoir, : 1891-1970
KW  - Chambers, Lenoir.
KW  - School integration : Virginia : History.
KW  - Journalists : Virginia : Biography.
KW  - Déségrégation en éducation : Virginie : Histoire.
KW  - EDUCATION : Philosophy & Social Aspects.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Educators.
KW  - Journalists
KW  - School integration
KW  - Virginia
KW  - Rassenintegration
KW  - Schule
KW  - Education, Special Topics.
KW  - Education.
KW  - Social Sciences.
KW  - Biographies
KW  - History
KW  - Biographies.
ER  -