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Brown v. Board of Education: Virginia Responds
An Exhibition at the Library of Virginia
Originally Displayed December 2003—June 2004.
 
Brown v. Board of Education Documents: Virginians Respond — Richmond

Letter from Robert Leon Bacon, Richmond, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond.  December 2, 1955. Office of the Governor, Thomas B. Stanley Papers. In his letter to Governor Stanley, Robert Leon Bacon described the restrictions that segregation placed on his life. He wrote that ";Virginia is the mother of presidents but it is not the home of democracy."

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Letter from Robert Leon Bacon, Richmond, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond. December 2, 1955.
Letter from Robert Leon Bacon, Richmond, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond.  December 2, 1955.
Letter from Robert Leon Bacon, Richmond, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond.  December 2, 1955.

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