![]() To most Americans living in the North, Brown was a ruling to end segregated schools-nothing more, nothing less. For without mentioning the crisis at hand, Buchanan’s proposal put in writing what Darden was thinking: Virginia needed to find a better way to deal with the incursion on states’ rights represented by Brown. As Darden reviewed the document, he might have wondered if the newly hired economist had read his mind. ![]() No less a figure than Milton Friedman had extolled Buchanan’s potential. ![]() Thirty-seven-year-old James McGill Buchanan liked to call himself a Tennessee country boy. On his desk was a proposal, written by the man he had recently appointed chair of the economics department at UVA. Even the name of this plan, “massive resistance,” made his gentlemanly Virginia sound like Mississippi. Darden, who earlier in his career had been the governor, could barely stand to contemplate the damage such a rash move would inflict. ![]() Some extremists called for ending public education entirely. Board of Education ruling, calling for the dismantling of segregation in public schools with “all deliberate speed.” In Virginia, outraged state officials responded with legislation to force the closure of any school that planned to comply. Supreme Court had issued its second Brown v. As 1956 drew to a close, Colgate Whitehead Darden Jr., the president of the University of Virginia, feared for the future of his beloved state. ![]()
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