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Confederate Flag and the All-White Tidewater Academy [Norfolk]
(WDBJ Television, Roanoke, VA)

No spoken words. This film shows Tidewater Academy in Norfolk, Virginia, a segregationist private high school formed by the Tidewater Educational Foundation in 1958. The school met in local churches and held its convocation in Bayview Baptist Church. (Source: The Washington Post, November 2, 1958)

Note: Tidewater Academy in Wakefield (Sussex County) was founded in 1964 and not affiliated with this school.
About the film
  • Date: 1959
  • Sound: Yes
  • Duration: 03:22
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