The Byrd Machine In Virginia The Rise And Fall Of A Conservative Political Organization
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The Byrd Machine In Virginia The Rise And Fall Of A Conservative Political Organization
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Author : Michael Lee Pope
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2022-10
The Byrd Machine In Virginia The Rise And Fall Of A Conservative Political Organization written by Michael Lee Pope and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-10 with History categories.
The Byrd Machine ran Virginia politics for more than half a century. This political organization rose to power during the era of Jim Crow, wielding power and influence over everything from who got the nod to be governor to how the state maintained racial segregation. Inheriting its tactics from two previous political machines, the Byrd organization operated with a pathological hatred of debt spending, crushing the power of labor unions and forcing its will on Black schoolchildren protesting separate and unequal facilities. The nadir of its era was massive resistance, a move to close public schools rather than integrate them. Journalist and author Michael Lee Pope details the rise and fall of the last great political machine in Virginia.
The Crisis Of Conservative Virginia
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Author : James W. Ely
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976-01-01
The Crisis Of Conservative Virginia written by James W. Ely and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976-01-01 with Massive resistance categories.
The Crisis Of Conservative Virginia
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Author : James W. Elv
language : en
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Byrd And Anti Byrd
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Author : James Robert Sweeney
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
Byrd And Anti Byrd written by James Robert Sweeney and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with Virginia categories.
The Dynamic Dominion
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Author : Frank B. Atkinson
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Release Date : 2006-07-21
The Dynamic Dominion written by Frank B. Atkinson and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07-21 with Political Science categories.
The Dynamic Dominion tells the dramatic story of Virginia's political transformation from the Second World War to the Reagan Revolution. The cradle of American democracy — and thus of the democratic movement that is sweeping the globe today — the venerable Old Dominion has emerged again in the second half of the 20th century as a dynamic political pace setter for the nation. In 1945, Virginia was a one-party, one-faction state under the aristocratic rule of conservative Democratic Senator Harry F. Byrd and his famed 'Byrd organization.' From his perch as the uncontested leader of the state that led the south, Virginia's Byrd became a regional symbol, a congressional kingpin, and a national power. With its political system and culture static, Virginia's voice was heard nationally mostly in dissent, as it had been for a century. Within a few decades, emerging two-party competition and an unprecedented party realignment combined to place the rapidly changing commonwealth in the national vanguard. Well before Republican parties throughout the South became competitive, Virginia's Republicans in the 1970s compiled the most impressive winning streak of any state party in the country. They did it by constructing a coalition of rural conservative Democrats and suburban Republicans — the same coalition that Ronald Reagan assembled nationwide in 1980, ushering in the Reagan Revolution. As told in The Dynamic Dominion, the Virginia story contains all the excitement, drama, conflict, and intrigue of a fast-paced thriller. It is a story of triumph and tragedy, celebrities and statesmen, heroes and scoundrels — of shifting party loyalties and makeshift coalitions, hard-fought campaigns and razor-close elections — of ambition and cynicism alongside sacrifice and idealism. Best of all, the tale is true. It is the fascinating story of contemporary democracy flourishing in Virginia . . . the place where it was born.
Hidden History Of Alexandria D C
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Author : Michael Lee Pope
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2011-09-23
Hidden History Of Alexandria D C written by Michael Lee Pope and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-23 with History categories.
Go inside the long-forgotten 19th century period when Alexandria left Virginia and incorporated itself into the fledging Distric of Columbia. This groundbreaking history uncovers the time in the 19th century when Alexandria left the commonwealth of Virginia and became incorporated into the emerging District of Columbia. It was an experiment that failed after half a century of neglect and a growing animosity between North and South. However, it was a fascinating time when cannon were dragged onto city streets for political rallies, candidates plied their voters with liquor and devastating fires ravaged the city.
Building The Federal Schoolhouse
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Author : Douglas S. Reed
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2014-06-26
Building The Federal Schoolhouse written by Douglas S. Reed and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-06-26 with Political Science categories.
Over the past fifty years, the federal government's efforts to reform American public education have transformed U.S. schools from locally-run enterprises into complex systems jointly constructed by federal, state, and local actors. The construction of this federal schoolhouse-an educational system with common national expectations and practices-has fundamentally altered both education politics and the norms governing educational policy at the local level. Building the Federal Schoolhouse examines these issues through an in-depth, fifty-year examination of federal educational policies in the community of Alexandria, Virginia, a wealthy yet socially diverse suburb of Washington, D.C. The epochal social transformations that swept through America in the past half century hit Alexandria with particular force, transforming its Jim Crow school system into a new immigrant gateway district within two generations. Along the way, the school system has struggled to provide quality education for special needs students, and has sought to overcome the legacies of tracking and segregated learning while simultaneously retaining upper-middle class students. Most recently, it has grappled with state and federally imposed accountability measures that seek to boost educational outcomes. All of these policy initiatives have contended with the existing political regime within Alexandria, at times forcing it to a breaking point, and at other times reconstructing it. All the while, the local expectations and governing realities of administrators, parents, politicians, and voters have sharply constrained federal initiatives, limiting their scope when in conflict with local commitments and amplifying them when they align. Through an extensive use of local archives, contemporary accounts, school data, and interviews, Douglas S. Reed not only paints an intimate portrait of the conflicts that the federal schoolhouse's creation has wrought in Alexandria, but also documents the successes of the federal commitment to greater educational opportunity. In so doing, he highlights the complexity of the American education state and the centrality of local regimes and local historical context to federal educational reform efforts.
The New Dominion
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Author : John G. Milliken
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2023-08-04
The New Dominion written by John G. Milliken and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-04 with Political Science categories.
The New Dominion analyzes six key statewide elections to explore the demographic, cultural, and economic changes that drove the transformation of the state’s politics and shaped the political Virginia of today. Countering the common narrative that the shifting politics of Virginia is a recent phenomenon driven by population growth in the urban corridor, the contributors to this volume consider the antecedents to the rise of Virginia as a two-party competitive state in the critical elections of the twentieth century that they profile.
Shotgun Justice
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Author : Michael Lee Pope
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-11-13
Shotgun Justice written by Michael Lee Pope and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-13 with History categories.
When Crandal Mackey was elected commonwealth's attorney in 1903, he set his sights on the illegal bars, bordellos and casinos of Alexandria County. The Virginia county--now Arlington County and parts of Alexandria--was plagued by crime in the streets and corruption at City Hall. Armed with a shotgun and accompanied by an axe-wielding posse, Mackey embarked on a crusade, busting up saloons and conducting raids throughout the county. When the dust settled, Mackey had shut down an infamous racetrack in Del Ray and politicians on the take in Alexandria County's political machine. Yet, in 1915 he mysteriously withdrew his bid for another term. Author Michael Lee Pope uncovers the little-known story of one man's battle to rid Alexandria and Arlington of sinister vice and violent crime.
The Southern Quarterly
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
The Southern Quarterly written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with American literature categories.
