page_title: Culture in Norfolk, Virginia
hierarchical_section_title: Culture in Norfolk, Virginia
caption_attribution_description: Statue of Douglas MacArthur
context_page_description: Norfolk is the region's cultural heart and in addition to several outstanding museums, is the principal home for several major performing arts companies. Norfolk also plays host to numerous yearly festivals and parades, mostly at Town Point Park in downtown.
  Norfolk was historically part of the slave-holding South, and was later segregated along racial lines until the 1960s. This has led to racial tensions within the highly diversified city that have been slow to heal. Nevertheless, racial tensions have been slowly subsiding overtime as younger generations who have no first-hand recollection of segregation have reached adulthood and started families of their own.
context_section_description: Norfolk is the region's cultural heart and in addition to several outstanding museums, is the principal home for several major performing arts companies. Norfolk also plays host to numerous yearly festivals and parades, mostly at Town Point Park in downtown.
  Norfolk was historically part of the slave-holding South, and was later segregated along racial lines until the 1960s. This has led to racial tensions within the highly diversified city that have been slow to heal. Nevertheless, racial tensions have been slowly subsiding overtime as younger generations who have no first-hand recollection of segregation have reached adulthood and started families of their own.
caption: The MacArthur Statue
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