Segregation & public facilities
Warren County closes its only high school
Closed 15 September 1958; reopened February 1959Warren County and its public high school at Front Royal, VA
Eight days after a federal judge ordered Black students admitted, the governor locked the doors of Warren County High School. It was the first school closed under Massive Resistance, and roughly a thousand students had nowhere to go.
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