[DOC] [TLE] It Happened Here First: Arlington Students Integrate Virginia Schools [PAR] Feb 2, 2013 ... On February 2, 1959, Stratford Junior High School (now H-B Woodlawn ... 
Resistance laws, which were designed to delay or limit the scope of integration. 
... closing any white school where a black student enrolled, withholding state 
funds ... of 17 black students in previously all-white schools in Norfolk. [DOC] [TLE] Desegregation in Public Schools - Encyclopedia Virginia [PAR] Nov 6, 2008 ... Early in the 1950s, the Virginia state NAACP joined the national organization ... 
Desegregation began in Virginia on February 2, 1959, after a nearly three-year ... 
Black students who sought to transfer into white schools were forced to go ... 
seventeen black students in Norfolk and four in Arlington County... [DOC] [TLE] Massive resistance - Wikipedia [PAR] Massive resistance was a strategy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of 
Virginia along ... Many schools, and even an entire school system, were shut 
down in 1958 .... and Norfolk and Arlington County to integrate, but local and 
state officials .... White students attended the Surry Academy, while and black 
students... [DOC] [TLE] School Desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia [PAR] Blessed Sacrament School (a Norfolk parochial school) is the first all-white 
school in the region to enroll a black student. ... Other Navy facilities were already 
integrated. May 17 ... The United States Supreme Court, in Brown II, places 
responsibility for implementation of Brown v. .... Their report was submitted March 
31, 1959. [DOC] [TLE] 'Brown v. Board of Education': Portraits of Integration, Virginia, 1959 [PAR] May 15, 2014 ... Seventeen of the African-American students who were ordered admitted to white 
schools in Norfolk ... In February 1959, the state's governor, J. Lindsay Almond, 
reluctantly ... students began attending classes in Norfolk and Arlington. ... LIFE's 
coverage of the integration of the Norfolk schools painted a... [DOC] [TLE] Arlington Historical Society 2014 Essay Contest - Arlington, VA [PAR] It had been a fight to overcome vehement opposition in the state. ... That summer, 
when schools in Norfolk tried to integrate, they were closed, effectively ... On 
February 2, 1959, when Arlington County integrated four students into Stafford ... 
over four times as many African American students (Cities and Towns: 
Geography of... [DOC] [TLE] INTRODUCED [PAR] Jan 28, 2009 ... the 50th anniversary of public school desegregation in Virginia. ... prevent 
desegregation and locked out nearly 13,000 students statewide ... WHEREAS, on 
February 2, 1959, Stratford Junior High School in Arlington County became the 
first ... WHEREAS, Norfolk schools were integrated later that same day... [DOC] [TLE] Education in Virginia | Virginia Historical Society [PAR] For example, in 1888, Amherst County schools were open for an average of ... 
1959, both the Virginia State Supreme Court and the United States Supreme 
Court ... later, black students entered previously all-white schools in Norfolk and 
Arlington. ... "freedom of choice" plans limited school integration throughout the 
state. [DOC] [TLE] Lesson 3 - ADL - Anti-Defamation League [PAR] As you review the school integration timeline(s), consider Warren's words and list 
.... A black student at South Boston High School stabs a white classmate. ... 1954: 
On May 17 the United States Supreme Court repudiates the doctrine of ..... 
February 2, 1959: In Norfolk and Arlington, Virginia, twenty-one black students 
enter. [DOC] [TLE] The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties Timeline [PAR] Student Resource, African American Civil Rights Timeline Activity ... white 
students who were kept from attending schools; Lawyers for the state ... Ask 
students to read the article, Socioeconomic School Integration by ..... Accordingly, 
on February 2, 1959, with national press coverage, seventeen black students in 
Norfolk and... [DOC] [TLE] Virginia's Massive Folly - URJ-UCCS: Undergraduate Research ... [PAR] In September, 1959, the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia closed 
... While most white students were educated in makeshift private schools, the 
doors of public

Question: In 1959 this state's schools were integrated as black students joined white in Norfolk & Arlington
Answer: Virginia