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31. Don't forget Virginia was the home of "Massive Resistance"

Fri Dec 29, 2023, 12:29 AM

Dec 2023

The Byrd machine ruled the Commonwealth. Many school districts simply shut down (for 3years in some cases) rather than comply with Brown v Board. Farmville - part of Brown - created a private school system included ones funded by the more wealthy in the area for the poorer whites. Yes, winters for even the white kids.

There were two Schools for the Deaf and Blind. Staunton (white) and Hampton (black) - guess who got the new material. If you were blind and white in say Williamsburg you went to Staunton. Black blind and in Waynesboro? You go to Hampton. This was before the full implementation of the Eisenhower interstate system so those were long trips.

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Michael Beschloss has tweeted samples of a 1956 Virginia seventh-grade textbook about "generally happy" slaves [View all] highplainsdem Dec 2023 OP

I'm thinking that's today's Florida textbooks mcar Dec 2023 #1

I'm sure they've sanded it down, polished it up... dchill Dec 2023 #29

Ignorance and bigotry are rather tenacious. TwilightZone Dec 2023 #2

How many slaves were homeless? moondust Dec 2023 #3

Damn you. TwilightZone Dec 2023 #5

I haven't heard it made. moondust Dec 2023 #8

One of my employees the other day told me the civil war was wasnt about slavery but about states rights. Eko Dec 2023 #4

they were probably watching nikki haley's crap on fox. she said it was about "states rights" nt orleans Dec 2023 #23

Right, and oh yah, fawk her. a kennedy Dec 2023 #48

That was my textbook Dave in VA Dec 2023 #6

I've been curious about how this presentation made the students feel. Can you share? Hekate Dec 2023 #10

That was nearly 60 years ago. Dave in VA Dec 2023 #13

Thank you, it does. My life, neighbors, & home state were so different from that; I had no idea textbooks were also Hekate Dec 2023 #16

what was your home state (you said textbooks were so different -- just wondering) nt orleans Dec 2023 #25

O'ahu, Hawai'i. Civilian family, but Lockheed got a Navy contract to service their planes... Hekate Dec 2023 #36

You could have written twice as much, I would have reead every word Tom Rinaldo Dec 2023 #39

Thank you kindly. I did forget to add, on the subject of plantations, that we had them in Hawaii Hekate Dec 2023 #46

I went to school in Pennsylvania at the same time whathehell Dec 2023 #44

I remember this illustration in my elementary school textbook. yardwork Dec 2023 #22

I was taking Va. history around 1964 and also remember this. GoodRaisin Dec 2023 #43

And similarly, textbooks and other media touted very restricted roles for women nt spooky3 Dec 2023 #7

A Literature of the South graduate class I took... ananda Dec 2023 #9

I thought it was from Prager U exboyfil Dec 2023 #11

Must've been written by the Daughters of the Confederacy. Hermit-The-Prog Dec 2023 #12

Don't forget Virginia was the home of "Massive Resistance" underpants Dec 2023 #31

So, you're saying lonely bird Dec 2023 #14

it certainly looks like it would be something florida dept of ed would approve, doesn't it? nt orleans Dec 2023 #26

why NJCher Dec 2023 #33

lol! nt orleans Dec 2023 #35

And yet, for all their happiness gratuitous Dec 2023 #15

Chris Rock: "Who wants to change places?" sop Dec 2023 #21

Well, 3 hots and a cot. Lunabell Dec 2023 #17

Just look how they arrived safely KS Toronado Dec 2023 #18

Accommodations not as depicted above. Marcuse Dec 2023 #19

That illustration looks like it came from a Tom Tomorrow cartoon strip, but without all the sarcastic venom. sop Dec 2023 #20

You see "venom" in Tom Tomorrow's work? John Shaft Dec 2023 #37

You think Tomorrow and other satirists wouldn't respond venomously to this attempt to whitewash slavery? sop Dec 2023 #38

I don't see "venom" in a good satirists work John Shaft Dec 2023 #40

You seem to believe Tom Tomorrow only relies on gentle bon mots when skewering his targets. sop Dec 2023 #41

Jesus Christ ismnotwasm Dec 2023 #24

Read the book "Twelve Years A Slave" by Solomon Northup Deuxcents Dec 2023 #27

Still at it: cbabe Dec 2023 #28

any person that thinks slaves are/were happy, is welcome to serve as my slave if they wish... Takket Dec 2023 #30

Are you a good cook? Elessar Zappa Dec 2023 #32

See? See? This is proof that the WOKE mob is trying to change history!!11!! progressoid Dec 2023 #34

Denial is not just a river in Africa LetMyPeopleVote Dec 2023 #42

Musical accompaniment central scrutinizer Dec 2023 #45

I grew up (mostly) in Virginia Saoirse9 Dec 2023 #47