Scenarios about 'massive resistance'
The organized campaign of legal obstruction and defiance by white Southerners against federal efforts to enforce racial integration following the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision. Massive resistance included school closures, establishing private segregated academies, legislative interposition, and sometimes violence, reflecting the fierce struggle over civil rights and states' rights during the 1950s and 1960s in American history.
What If Virginia Developed a Different Relationship with the Federal Government?
Exploring the alternate timeline where Virginia chose a path of cooperation rather than confrontation with the federal government during the Civil Rights Era, potentially reshaping Southern politics and race relations in America.