Segregation & public facilities
Charlottesville shuts Lane High and Venable Elementary
Closed 19 September 1958; reopened 4 February 1959Lane High School and Venable Elementary School, Charlottesville, VA
Two days before twelve Black children were due to start, the governor closed both schools. They stayed shut for five months, reopened segregated, and admitted the twelve only in September 1959.
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