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WSB-TV newsfilm clip of Governor J. Lindsay Almond speaking to the General Assembly about ending the state's policy of massive resistance to school integration, Richmond, Virginia, 1959 January 28

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In this WSB newsfilm clip from January 28, 1959, Virginia governor J. Lindsay Almond speaks to the General Assembly at a special session held in Richmond, Virginia, following state and federal court rulings against state laws forming a policy of massive resistance to school desegregation.The clip begins by showing the Virginia State Capitol building. Inside the building, legislators mill around the legislative chamber and later clap. On the floor, white men give a standing ovation to an unseen speaker. In the balcony, white men and women also stand and clap. Governor J. Lindsay Almond speaks from a podium, but his comments are not recorded. Legislators listen as they stand or sit near rows of desks. When Almond begins to speak, he admits that pupil placement plans, once used to keep African American children out of white schools, cannot succeed. He then declares that such strategies give power to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to decide the "degree and the tempo" of school integration. After a break in the clip, Almond asserts that in the school desegregation issue, "Virginia has been subjected to pressures more relentless, brutish, and formidable than that applied to any other state." He insists that Virginia has preserved segregated schools longer than other states where segregation has been challenged. According to Almond, Virginia "has not surrendered, and she does not surrender now."School desegregation lawsuits were first brought in Virginia in 1951 in a Prince Edward County, Virginia case. The suit was later...
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Almond, J. Lindsay (James Lindsay), 1898-1986
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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. Federal State Controversies
  2. Governors
  3. Legislators
  4. Massive Resistance Movement
  5. School Integration
  6. Segregation In Education
  7. Speeches, Addresses, Etc
  8. Virginia

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