Standing before the shouting mob : Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's massive resistance to public-school integration /
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 Sena...
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Tuscaloosa :
University of Alabama Press,
©1997.
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Sommario:
- Closing of the schools
- Divergent views
- Lenoir Chambers : the formative years
- The emergence of an editor
- A fish out of his pond
- Liberal journalism in the South
- Chambers as editor of the Virginian-Pilot
- Norfolk : the setting for a conflict
- The issue of the century
- Legislative ploys
- The resistance in Norfolk
- Advocacy for reopening the schools
- A city divided and beleaguered
- The turning of the tide
- The influence of Lenoir Chambers
- Epilogue : the editor and the schools.