Word: virginius
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...state's most influential newspapers found the biggest news in weeks on the editorial pages. Long advocates of "massive resistance" to school integration, Richmond's Times-Dispatch and News Leader had decided that the commonwealth's maze of pro-segregation laws was foredoomed to failure. Editor Virginius Dabney's Times-Dispatch called for an assembly commission to think up new defensive tactics, and Editor James Jackson Kilpatrick's News Leader even talked about the possibility of limited, local-option integration. When the Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch
...agree with the Trib. South Dakota's Republican Sioux Falls Argus Leader (circ. 51,575), which has sent staffers to Russia, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other Iron Curtain countries, protested that Secretary Dulles' built-in discrimination against enterprising smaller papers "is intolerable under the American press system." Said Virginius Dabney, president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors and editor of Virginia's Richmond Times-Dispatch: "I find no justification for a limit on the number of legitimate, accredited correspondents...
Wrote Editor Virginius Dabney of the segregationist Richmond Times-Dispatch: "If any of these invited colored citizens come to the dinner . . . and admission is refused, Virginia and Virginia hospitality will get a black eye from which they may never recover." With all this said and done, the Chamber of Commerce mended its anniversary manners, announced that any invited Negro who showed up at the reception would be "courteously seated...
...only within the conceptual framework of two parallel societies, one black, the other white. When the concept of segregation itself was challenged, the Southern liberals drew back in alarm. Who is a Southern liberal? The well-known names of Harry Ashmore, Hodding Carter, Jonathan Daniels, Mark Ethridge and Virginius Dabney immediately come to mind...
...Foundation announced a grant (about $75,000) to set up the non-profit Southern Education Reporting Service. Staffed by working newsmen, the news service, with headquarters in Nashville, will provide free factual news to editors, public officials, school administrators, etc., describing the shift from segregated to nonsegregated schools. Said Virginius Dabney, editor of the Richmond Times-Dispatch and chairman of the Southern Education Reporting Service: "School administrators . . . in each of the 17 states affected will stand to benefit by the experience of [other] school administrators [reported] on a strictly factual, non-partisan basis...