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- In Virginia, the education of free and enslaved African Americans had been discouraged and, in some forms, made illegal. After the abolition of slavery, the federal Freedmen’s Bureau established the first statewide system of schools, but only for African Americans; other, biracial systems were set up, but only in Petersburg, Richmond, and Norfolk.
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Sep 11, 2024 · Virginia’s public schools had been segregated racially since their inception in 1870. So, too, were the state’s public colleges and universities. Through local organization and the ballot, Black Virginians were able to pressure state and local authorities to provide support for their schools.
Today, the impact of white flight, redlining, and generations of Virginians living in de facto segregated neighborhoods means that the racial makeup of many schools are still starkly majority white or Black.
May 3, 2024 · The bureau spent more than $200,000 on Virginia schools, which enrolled nearly 33,000 students. Petersburg created a racially segregated public school system in 1868, and Richmond in 1869, but in 1870 those and the Norfolk schools were still the only public schools in the state.
Nov 11, 2020 · The report reveals that segregation among schools in the same division contributes to half or more of all multiracial school segregation in Virginia’s metropolitan regions, including central Virginia (56%), Tidewater (50%) and Northern Virginia (63%).
May 4, 2022 · Three cases that were litigated in Virginia in 1948 show the significance of the equalization strategy, its shortcomings, and the ways in which it contributed to the desegregation of schools across the United States in the 1950s-1960s, a fight which continues today.
Although Virginia public schools were racially segregated from the beginning, the Constitution of 1902 was the state's first constitution to require segregation. In 1904, the General Assembly gave streetcar companies the power to segregate passengers by race.
School Board of New Kent County (1968) became the most important school desegregation decision since 1954. Southern juries were desegregated as a result of Johnson v. Virginia in 1963.
