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  2. Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County

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    Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County (Docket number: Civ. A. No. 1333; Case citation: 103 F. Supp. 337 (1952)) was one of the five cases combined into Brown v. Board of Education, the famous case in which the U.S. Supreme Court, in 1954, officially overturned racial segregation in U.S. public schools. The Davis case was the only ...

  3. Segregation academy - Wikipedia

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    In 1985 the Bollingbrook School, another private school originally founded as a segregation academy for white students in 1958 merged with a nearby Catholic High School in Petersburg, Gibbons High School, to become St. Vincent de Paul High School. [37] Most segregation academies founded in Virginia during "Massive Resistance" are still thriving ...

  4. Category:Historically segregated African-American schools in ...

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    Rosenwald schools in Virginia (1 C, 16 P) Pages in category "Historically segregated African-American schools in Virginia" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.

  5. Category:Segregation academies in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Segregation academies were private schools in the United States that opened after 1954 and during the 1960s and 1970s as a way for white parents to avoid the desegregation of public schools as a result of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Brown v. Board of Education.

  6. Segregation in American schools is growing 62 years after ...

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    The number of students attending 'High-Poverty and mostly Black or Hispanic' (H/PBH) public schools more than doubled between 2001 and 2014. Segregation in American schools is growing 62 years ...

  7. Massive resistance - Wikipedia

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    A little more than a month after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown, on June 26, 1954, [note 1] Senator Byrd vowed to stop integration attempts in Virginia's schools. By the end of that summer, Governor Thomas B. Stanley, a member of the Byrd Organization, had appointed a Commission on Public Education, consisting of 32 white Democrats and chaired by Virginia Senator Garland "Peck" Gray of ...

  8. School board in Virginia votes to restore Confederate names

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    The education board for a rural Virginia county voted early on Friday to restore the names of Confederate generals stripped from two schools in 2020, making the mostly white, Republican district ...

  9. Stanley Plan - Wikipedia

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    The Stanley Plan was a package of 13 statutes adopted in September 1956 by the U.S. state of Virginia.The statutes were designed to ensure racial segregation would continue in that state's public schools despite the unanimous ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court in Brown v.