The resources listed here cover school desegregation throughout Virginia. Resources focused on specific localities are listed in separate pages.
Brown, et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. 1954. 347 U.S.483. Supreme Court of the United States.
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896
Burnette, Ann Elizabeth. 1996. A lost cause revisited: Virginia's massive resistance, 1954-1962. Ph.D., Northwestern University. (ILL)
Grundman, Adolph H. 1972. Public School Desegregation in Virginia from 1954 to the Present. Ph.D., Wayne State University.
Hershman, James Howard Jr. 1978. A rumbling in the museum: The opponents of Virginia's massive resistance. Ph.D., University of Virginia. (ILL)
Neff, David Pembroke. 1992. The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties, 1954-1967. Thesis (MA), Old Dominion University. (LD4331.H47N44)
American Bar Association. ABA Commission on the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Brown Foundation. In pursuit of freedom & equality: Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. http://www.brownvboard.org/.
History.com. Civil Rights Movement Timeline.
Library of Congress. American Memory. The civil rights era: Desegregation.http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart9.html.
Library of Virginia. Brown v. Board of Education: Virginia responds. https://www.lva.virginia.gov/exhibits/brown/
National Public Radio. Looking back: Brown v. Board of Education, school desegregation fight ended with landmark legal decision. https://legacy.npr.org/news/specials/brown50/index.html.
United States Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Brown v. Board of Education: National historic site. http://www.nps.gov/brvb.
Virginia Center for Digital History. The ground beneath our feet: Episode 3: Massive resistance. http://www.vahistory.org/massive.resistance/index.html.
Virginia Historical Society. The civil rights movement in Virginia.