Display of court records highlights a century of segregation in Loudoun County: Documents show the pervasiveness of discrimination in the years following the Civil War
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Display of court records highlights a century of segregation in Loudoun County: Documents show the pervasiveness of discrimination in the years following the Civil War
The Washington post (Washington, D.C. 1974. Online)
Creator
Jim Barnes
Subject
African Americans
Civil war
Desegregation
Schools
Segregation
Abstract
Many of the records pertained to the public schools, from the 1883 purchase of land for the Union Street School in Leesburg to the 1959 sale of that and four other properties that had housed schools for African American children. Board of Supervisors records from 1956 show that the County-Wide League advocated for desegregation of the schools when Sterling Harrison, president of the local chapter of a group called the Defenders of State Sovereignty and...