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Massive Resistance – Encyclopedia Virginia

Massive Resistance – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Davis, Harry B (1893–1987) – Encyclopedia Virginia

Davis, Harry B (1893–1987) – Encyclopedia Virginia
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Editorial: What we can learn from Pete Giesen s career

Pete Giesen, who was from Radford, was the last of the “mountain-valley Republicans” who broke the stranglehold on power of segregationist Democrats in Virginia in the 1960s.

Editorial: What we can learn from Pete Giesen s career

In 1963, a young businessman from Staunton ran for the House of Delegates on what was then considered something of a radical agenda. He didn’t think much of the poll tax that Virginia levied — and which was used to keep the electorate small, and with as few Black voters and poor white voters as possible. He wanted to abolish the Pupil Placement Board that Virginia had set up to facilitate the continued segregation of schools after the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision. He objected to the tuition grants that Virginia used to pay for white students to attend segregated private schools.

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