Leonard Pitts Jr.: 'Massive resistance' goes both ways
They called it “massive resistance.”
That, some of you may recall, was what Virginia dubbed its campaign of defiance of Brown v. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that outlawed school segregation. The Virginia crusade was just part of a drive by conservatives all over the South to blunt the effect of that decision.
It’s a noxious bit of history that, paradoxically, may carry a seed of hope for advocates
