Based on the documentary
film series, Photographic Collections
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 Danville (Va.) Corporation Court 1963 |
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Instructor:
William G. Thomas
The course begins with segregation, traces its legal and social origins,
and covers the development of the NAACP's legal strategy to destroy
segregation, the impact of World War II on the civil rights movement,
the political organization of Harry F. Byrd in Virginia, how the Byrd
organization policies abetted segregation, and massive resistance in
Virginia to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. The course also
treats these subjects in the context of the Civil Rights Movement as
a whole in United States history. We will examine the local perspective
on these national and state events through the eyes of participants
and the course focuses on understanding the relationship between national
and local events in history.
From the Danville Corporation Court 1963, Danville Virginia Courtesy of The Library of Virginia
