Free Download Brian J. Daugherity, "Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 0813938899 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 1.8 mb
Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state’s political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African Americans and the NAACP in Virginia successfully pursued a legal agenda that provided new educational opportunities for the state’s black population in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Democratic Party of Harry F. Byrd Sr.