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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 — Southside

Telegram from M. R. Lee, Courtland, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond. May 25, 1954. Office of the Governor, Thomas B. Stanley Papers. In his telegram to Governor Stanley, M. R. Lee summed up what many white Southerners thought about the U.S. Supreme Court decision.

Telegram from M. R. Lee, Courtland, to Governor Thomas B. Stanley, Richmond. May 25, 1954.