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#Massive-Resistance

Events indexed under #Massive-Resistance — 8 entries in the record.

8 events From Jul 11, 1954 To Jun 26, 1959 Open in filter view →

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Date	Event	Lanes	Status
1959-06-26	Prince Edward County Virginia Closes Entire Public School System for Five Years Rather Than Integrate 3 src		confirmed
1959-06-02	Prince Edward County Virginia Closes All Public Schools for Five Years Rather Than Integrate 3 src		confirmed
1956-09-21	Virginia Enacts Massive Resistance Laws Authorizing School Closures to Prevent Integration 3 src		confirmed
1956-03-29	Mississippi Creates State Sovereignty Commission for Civil Rights Surveillance and Segregationist Funding 3 src White Citizens' Councils		confirmed
1956-03-12	Southern Manifesto Signed by 101 Congressmen Pledging Resistance to School Integration 6 src Strom Thurmond		confirmed
1956-02-06	University of Alabama Expels Autherine Lucy After White Mob Violence, First Black Student Barred 3 src NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · Ku Klux Klan		confirmed
1955-05-31	Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance 3 src Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall		confirmed
1954-07-11	White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration 4 src White Citizens' Councils		confirmed