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A chilling account of the ways Virginia lawmakers attempted to subvert the Supreme Court decision in Brown v Board of Education in 1958. Read about the Southern Manifesto, and the group of laws known as Massive Resistance.
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equal protection, prevention of school integration, white resistance to school desegregation, 14th amendment, massive resistance, pupil placement boards, senator harry f. byrd, sr., southern manifesto, virginia's school-closing law, civil rights in virginia, end of separate but equal, reactions to end of separate but equal
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- Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)