Author: LEIDHOLDT, ALEXANDER S.
Title: Standing Before the Shouting Mob
Description: Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, ca 2000. 1st Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 081730858X. As new in shrink wrap. Mulitiple copies available! Possibly no publication date in item. A southern journalist campaigns for racial understanding during the struggle over school desegregation in Virginia. Massive resistance to integration transformed Norfolkinto a civil rights arena. Although the process by which Norfolk's schoolswere integrated was far from orderly, the transition was characterizedby debate, political maneuvering, and judicial action--not violence. LenoirChambers, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, conducted a five-yeareditorial campaign supporting the peaceful implementation of the Court'sorder. The Pilot was Virginia's only white newspaper to take thisposition. Chambers was later awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials.; Photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages. As New in As New dust jacket .
Keywords: Civil Rights African American Education Norfolk
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Title: Standing Before the Shouting Mob
Description: Tuscaloosa, AL: The University of Alabama Press, ca 2000. 1st Thus. Hardcover. ISBN: 081730858X. As new in shrink wrap. Mulitiple copies available! Possibly no publication date in item. A southern journalist campaigns for racial understanding during the struggle over school desegregation in Virginia. Massive resistance to integration transformed Norfolkinto a civil rights arena. Although the process by which Norfolk's schoolswere integrated was far from orderly, the transition was characterizedby debate, political maneuvering, and judicial action--not violence. LenoirChambers, editor of the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, conducted a five-yeareditorial campaign supporting the peaceful implementation of the Court'sorder. The Pilot was Virginia's only white newspaper to take thisposition. Chambers was later awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his editorials.; Photos; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 208 pages. As New in As New dust jacket .
Keywords: Civil Rights African American Education Norfolk
Price: US$ 7.97 Seller: A Book Legacy
- Book number: 48886
- Book number: 48886
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