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November 1967
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October 1967
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![A series of 3 pet dogs brought Lt. Rasmussen a bit of normalcy and joy during his year in Vietnam. ‘Nathaniel’ is pictured here. A series of 3 pet dogs brought Lt. Rasmussen a bit of normalcy and joy during his year in Vietnam. ‘Nathaniel’ is pictured here.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Letters%20from%20Vietnam_TC23.4_Digital_17.JPG.webp?itok=-1YV6Uw5)
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Off to War
Following United States entry into the war, the army designated Newport News and New York City as ports of embarkation
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Ongoing Resistance to Desegregation
By 1964, five years after the end of Massive Resistance, only 5 percent of black students in Virginia were attending
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Online Resources
Anyone conducting research on the Civil War in Virginia is faced with a daunting task. Thousands of books have been written
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Patriot
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Patriotism on the Home Front
Three-fourths of the wartime organizations in Virginia were women’s groups. These included the YWCA, Equal Suffrage League
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Political Decline and Westward Migration
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The political stature of Virginia declined on the national stage when no successors of ability emerged to replace the...
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Racial Inequality
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Confederate defeat threatened to change white southern identity. Suddenly African Americans were free to determine the...
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Raid, Incarceration, and Execution
Although John Brown and his followers easily captured the United States arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia
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Reconciliation
After Appomattox, Ulysses S. Grant was the savior of the United States, while Robert E. Lee was the greatest hero of the Lost
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Reconstruction
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During the decade following the Civil War, former Confederate states were required to “reconstruct” their state...
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Returning Home
The guns of the Western Front fell silent on November 11, 1918. The armistice marked a victory for the Allies, including the
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Rising Black Consciousness
Part of the reasoning cited in the Brown decision was that discrimination greatly diminished Black pupils' self-esteem. As
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Robert Knox Sneden Chronology
1832 June 3 born in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia, British provinces of America 1851 family moves to New York 1858 earliest
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School Busing
Because Black and white Virginians generally lived in segregated neighborhoods in the mid-twentieth century, race-neutral
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September 1967
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![Lt. Rasmussen with the Red Cross jeep that provided a means to transport medical supplies to forward command posts. It also served as an ambulance. Lt. Rasmussen with the Red Cross jeep that provided a means to transport medical supplies to forward command posts. It also served as an ambulance.](/sites/default/files/styles/fp_landscape_768x576/public/Letters%20from%20Vietnam_TC23.4_Digital_15.JPG.webp?itok=TIVgK0TN)
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Slavery
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Virginia’s 550,000 slaves constituted one third of the state’s population in 1860.
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Statesman
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Stephanie Younger — The Rising Generation
The wave of police killings of unarmed Black people in the 2010s spurred Stephanie Younger (b. 2002) to activism. Seeking to