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Governor Stanley and Massive Resistance Laws
In this clip Governor Thomas B. Stanley states the clear policy of the state that white and black children could not be educated together in schools and those schools continue to receive state funding and support.
Sit-ins in Danville
In this clip, at the Howard Johnson's sit-in, Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee member Bob Zellner speaks to the press about the goals of the movement. Zellner, a white student and activist, called for peaceful non-violent direct action and to "give the people an opportunity to change."
Governor Almond and Massive Resistance Laws
Here we see Governor Lindsay Almond addressing the people of Virginia in Richmond after the State Supreme Court ruled against massive resistance laws. Almond launches one of his staunchest attacks on school integration in the speech.
Governor Almond on the NAACP and Massive Resistance Laws
In this clip, J. Lindsay Almond urges Virginia hold itself in "readiness" and that the state maintain flexibilty in meeting the school desegregation issue. Any definite plan, Almond notes, would be attacked by the NAACP. Almond claims his strategy is aimed at preserving public education in Virginia.
White parent's feelings on Integration
The first portion of this clip has no spoken word. In it we see some of the black students who registered for classes at Warren County High School. The remaining footage shows WSLS reporter Joe Moffatt interviewing Mr. Bowen, a white native of Warren County. Mr. Bowen's two children were not attending the newly integrated schools. When Warren County High School was closed in the fall of 1958, his children were sent to Rappahannock and they refused to move to an integrated school. Mr. Bowen disapproved of his children's decision. Going against the crowd, Mr. Bowen tacitly supports integrated education when he asks, "They've got to live with the Colored for the rest of their lives, haven't they Why shouldn't they live with them in school?"
SNCC
This clip shows the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee training sessions in Danville and elsewhere included instruction on how to protect oneself when police used nightsticks, and hit and kicked demonstrators.
Martin Luther King, Jr. in Virginia
This clip is from Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.'s visit to Danville on July 11, 1963. While in Danville King speaks at a delayed luncheon at a local church and condemns the "brutality and visciousness" of the Danville police force.
