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By: Jeff Schapiro
Published: June 24, 2010 11:45 AM
Gov. Bob McDonnell today is in Southside Virginia and he’s using the visit to spotlight—in words and with a $10,000 donation from his inaugural fund—an important battle in the civil-rights struggle.
The Republican is traveling to the Girls State government-and-politics workshop at Longwood College, where he’s announcing the cash contribution to the Robert Russa Moton Museum in Farmville.
In prepared remarks, McDonnell said, “The Robert Russa Moton Museum tells the story of the historic struggle for equality in education ... It was at Robert Russa Moton High School in 1951 that a brave 16 year old girl named Barbara Johns stood up and walked out rather than tolerate for a moment longer the travesty of segregation.”
That protest led to a legal challenge to the segregated schools of Prince Edward County. The Virginia lawsuit was rolled into what became Brown vs. the Board of Education, the case that lend to the landmark decision in 1954 by the U.S. Supreme Court outlawing segregated public schools.
Even after the Brown decision, Prince Edward County was defiant, closing its schools for several years rather than submit to desegregation. That disrupted the educations of hundreds of students, many of them African-American. A half-century later, the state set up a scholarship program to help them resume their studies.
“The efforts of Barbara and her classmates remain an inspiration to all Virginians,” said McDonnell.
This is the latest donation by McDonnell from his inagural fund, set up to finance the fesititives surrounding his swearing-in as governor. More donations are planned.
So far, McDonnell has donated $50,000. The other beneficiaries: Barter Theatre ($5,000), Virginia Public Access Project ($10,000), Patrick Henry School of Science and Arts ($25,000).
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