Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Pearsall_Plan> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 22 of
22
with 100 items per page.
- Pearsall_Plan abstract "The Pearsall Plan was a piece of legislation in the American state of North Carolina, developed in 1954-1956, to address the issue of the racial desgregation of the state's schools. The genesis of the plan was a committee formed in late 1954 by state governor William B. Umstead in response to the precedent-setting federal Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation case. The committee was headed by Thomas J. Pearsall, a major agricultural landholder from Rocky Mount, along with 16 white and 3 black citizens. The committee concluded that racial desegregation would be unsafe and inadvisable, and that the issue could be sidestepped by removing any state involvement in segregation, devolving the decision to the local school systems; this was accomplished by the 1955 Pupil Assignment Act.In response to the 1955 "Brown II" efforts to enable schools to desegregate, Umstead's successor Luther Hodges appointed a second, whites only, Pearsall Committee, which proposed (the "Pearsall Plan") that local schools pressured to desegregate could dissolve themselves by referendum and receive state vouchers for funds for white children to attend private schools. The plan was ratified as a change to the state constitution in July 1956, and submitted to statewide popular vote that September, winning by a 4-1 margin.The plan was largely symbolic, as the legislature was to receive only three voucher requests and fulfill one, but the legislation addressed the concerns of white voters, and caused severe delays in the desgregation process through at least 1959.".
- Pearsall_Plan wikiPageExternalLink ar103.pdf.
- Pearsall_Plan wikiPageExternalLink entry.
- Pearsall_Plan wikiPageID "38660789".
- Pearsall_Plan wikiPageRevisionID "554126797".
- Pearsall_Plan hasPhotoCollection Pearsall_Plan.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:1950s_in_North_Carolina.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:1956_in_Virginia.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:1956_in_law.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:African-American_history_of_North_Carolina.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:Education_in_North_Carolina.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:Legal_history_of_North_Carolina.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:North_Carolina_statutes.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:Race_legislation_in_the_United_States.
- Pearsall_Plan subject Category:School_segregation_in_the_United_States.
- Pearsall_Plan comment "The Pearsall Plan was a piece of legislation in the American state of North Carolina, developed in 1954-1956, to address the issue of the racial desgregation of the state's schools. The genesis of the plan was a committee formed in late 1954 by state governor William B. Umstead in response to the precedent-setting federal Brown vs. Board of Education desegregation case. The committee was headed by Thomas J.".
- Pearsall_Plan label "Pearsall Plan".
- Pearsall_Plan sameAs m.0r8nvd9.
- Pearsall_Plan sameAs Q7158283.
- Pearsall_Plan sameAs Q7158283.
- Pearsall_Plan wasDerivedFrom Pearsall_Plan?oldid=554126797.
- Pearsall_Plan isPrimaryTopicOf Pearsall_Plan.