![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The segregation of public schools went beyond issues of black and white. Following the disfranchisement of black voters in the Virginia Constitution of 1902, however, funding for black schools fell far short of what white schools received, and the discrepancies in salaries for teachers and administrators were stark. Through local organization and the ballot, black Virginians were able to pressure state and local authorities to provide support for their schools. So, too, were the state's public colleges and universities. Virginia's public schools had been segregated racially since their inception in 1870. Virginia's Indians, meanwhile, went without the benefit of any state-funded public education until 1963, almost a decade after Brown. State and local officials, however, generally resisted efforts to bring about desegregation and utilized their political power to avoid and then minimize public school desegregation. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, mandating the desegregation of public schools. This litigation was aimed at achieving court rulings forcing the state of Virginia and its local school districts to comply with the U.S. ![]() During this period, African Americans in Virginia pushed for desegregation primarily by filing lawsuits in federal courts throughout Virginia. The desegregation of the public schools in Virginia began on February 2, 1959, and continued through early in the 1970s when the state government's attempts to resist desegregation ended. ![]()
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