The Moderates' Dilemma
Subtitle: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia
Contributors: Matthew D. Lassiter (Editor); Andrew B. Lewis (Editor)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: October 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9780813918167
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Human rights; Organization & management of education; Racism & racial discrimination; Schools; c 1945 to c 1960; History; School Desegregation; United States - State & Local - General; Education; History - General History; School integration; Sociology; USA; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Histor; Political Freedom & Security - Civil Rights; 20th century; Virginia; General; Segregation in education
First sentence: IN JANUARY 1948 Armistead Lloyd Boothe, a forty-year-old lawyer from Alexandria, was one of an exceptional group of new legislators who entered the halls of the Virginia General Assembly for the first time.