January 11, 2009
The death of segregation
NORFOLK One photograph shows a black student sitting alone and expressionless in a Norfolk high school auditorium in 1959, shunned by his white classmates. Another shows an effigy of a black person, labeled with racial slurs, hanging from a tree right outside the school’s front door. The black-and-white photos are part of a new exhibit at Norfolk’s Chrysler Museum commemorating the 50th anniversary of the end of Massive Resistance, Virginia’s last-ditch attempt to preserve school segregation. The exhibit is scheduled to run through March 1.
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