Massive resistance was a political strategy created by American politicians Harry F. Byrd and James M. Thomson aimed at getting Virginia officials to pass...

Assembly passed a series of laws (the Stanley Plan) to implement Massive Resistance, a policy promoted by the Byrd Organization led by U.S. Senator Harry...

racial desegregation of the public schools, and was the leader of massive resistance, a campaign of opposition to the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown...

As a member of the Byrd Organization, Almond initially supported massive resistance to the integration of public schools following the United States Supreme...

but was deliberately stopped in the South by the movement called Massive Resistance, sponsored by rural segregationists who largely controlled the state...

was responsible for defending the state's resistance to school integration, as part of the Massive Resistance strategy endorsed and led by the state's...

Southern governmental and political leaders embraced a plan known as "massive resistance", created by Senator Harry F. Byrd, in order to frustrate attempts...

best-known of the Jim Crow laws that characterized the South at the time. "Massive resistance" to federal court orders requiring school integration was already...

enactment. The Stanley plan was a critical element in the policy of "massive resistance" to the Brown ruling advocated by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd Sr. The...

closed by the Governor in the fall of 1958, as part of Virginia's "massive resistance" to implementation of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown vs...

series of state laws known as the Stanley Plan, a part of the state's Massive Resistance policy. The school remained closed from September 19, 1958, until...

integration of the state's public schools, including a policy of massive resistance, which ultimately failed in 1960 after it was ruled unconstitutional...

Negro Enterprises's Negro Heritage Series. One of his books was about massive resistance in the Southern United States; he was awarded the 1973 Chastain Prize...

the Encyclopedia Virginia's "Massive Resistance" article,' and his 1978 PhD dissertation was on the massive resistance strategy—a Virginia state government...

newspapers. After the decline of the Byrd Organization due to its massive resistance to racial integration of public schools, he abandoned the Democratic...

A massively multiplayer online game (MMOG or more commonly MMO) is an online video game with a large number of players to interact in the same online...

educate their children separately from blacks. In Virginia, the "massive resistance" campaign led Prince Edward County to close its public schools from...

lived in Manassas, Virginia, from where he opposed and chronicled the Massive Resistance crisis fostered by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd and Richmond newspaperman...

public attention, as Southern Democratic leaders began a campaign of "massive resistance" against desegregation. In the midst of this campaign, President Eisenhower...

taxpayers. It ordered integration, but Virginia pursued a policy of "massive resistance". (At this time, most black citizens were still disfranchised under...

Democratic party machine. Their hold was broken over their failed Massive Resistance to school integration. As with the rest of the country the Great Depression...

option plan and a minority report that promoted the existing system of massive resistance. In January 1961, following the reconvening of the General Assembly...

his Southside support due to the President’s opposition to Byrd’s “Massive Resistance” policy following Brown v. Board of Education, as continuing Northern...

SCC, especially in regulating banks and public utilities. Although Massive Resistance did not directly affect the State Corporation Commission, Catterall...

border states, grading them from "A" to "F" as follows: A policy of "massive resistance" was declared by Virginia Senator Harry F. Byrd and led to the closing...

Virginia, where he attended St. Christopher's School during the state's Massive Resistance crisis concerning desegregation of the public schools. His father...

Strom Thurmond, and signed the Southern Manifesto, which called for massive resistance to the Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Board of Education. He also...

Education, and Southern states in response mounted a campaign of massive resistance to oppose it, arguing that federal desegregation orders infringed...

the state's public schools. His leadership in the failed policy of Massive Resistance to racial desegregation of the public schools and efforts to circumvent...

lieutenant in the Byrd Organization, Fitzpatrick was active in the Massive Resistance to racial integration vowed by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd after the...