Segregation & public facilities
Norfolk locks out ten thousand children
Closed 27 September 1958; reopened 2 February 1959Six Norfolk public schools, VA
To keep seventeen Black students out, Virginia closed six Norfolk schools and shut roughly 10,000 white students out with them - the largest of the Massive Resistance closures. It lasted four months.
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