Loudoun Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties records, 1956-1960.

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Loudoun Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties records, 1956-1960.

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Minutes of meetings, lists of officers and members, declaration of intent, statement of purpose, and correspondence.

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Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties

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The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties was chartered in 1954 to prevent the desegregation of Virginia's public schools. It was the most powerful segregationist organization in Virginia and proved instrumental in the passage of the Massive Resistance laws enacted by the General Assembly in 1956. From the guide to the Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties Records, 1956-1963, (Library of Virginia) ...

Loudoun Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties

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Organization of Loudoun County, Va., citizens formed to oppose racial integration following the 1954 Supreme Court ruling in Brown v. Topeka Board of Education. Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties was an organization formed to oppose integration after the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. It was established in Farmville, Va., and headed by Robert (R.B.) Crawford (ca. 1911-1973), who had been on the Prince Edward County...