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Lindsay Almond Campaign
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Various footage of J. Lindsay Almond, eating watermelon. Almond's gubernatorial
campaign in 1957 provided a vigorous debate over the wisdom of massive resistance
policies. His Republican opponent, state senator Ted Dalton from Roanoke, argued that
some integration was necessary and probable in the face of federal court orders and the
Brown decision. Dalton claimed that he was no friend of integration, but that the
state's massive resistance campaign was irrevocably harming public education. Almond
defended the policies and accused Dalton of failure of principle and nerve in the face
of a crisis.
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