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R. Walton Moore and Virginia Politics, 1933-1941
… Democratic Party organization leader Senator Harry F. Byrd, and his conservative colleague Senator Carter Glass. Both Glass and Byrd opposed most New Deal legislation throughout the decade. Moore served officially as Assistant Secretary of State and Counselor to the State Department, but his …
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Into "the Dead Zone" : racial violence and white supremacist genocide in Jim Crow Virginia, 1902-1951
… during the late 1920s, Virginia Governor Harry F. Byrd and other state officials deemed lynchings a threat to the state’s economic development and reputation. Exemplifying this perceived distaste for racial violence, Byrd signed the nation’s first state-wide anti-lynching law in 1928. …
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Virginia's Pupil Placement Board and the Massive Resistance Movement, 1956-1966
Virginia's Pupil Placement Board was the most enduring vestige of the state's "massive resistance" movement in the 1950s. Following the example of other Southern states, the state's General Assembly passed the Pupil Placement Act in 1956 as part of a package of legislation designed to counteract …