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Governor Timothy Kaine addresses attendees at the End of Massive Resistance luncheon on February 2, 2009 at the Murray Center, where he – and Mayor Paul Fraim – offered an apology for massive resistance.Mayor Fraim with former Vice Mayor Joseph N. Green, co-chair of the City’s End of Massive Resistance Commission and Navy Vice Admiral Melvin G. Williams, Jr., Commander, U. S. Second Fleet after the city’s MLK/Unity March program on January 19, 2009.Vice Mayor Anthony Burfoot, Mayor Fraim and William Hennessey, Director of Chrysler Museum view part of the museum’s special exhibition, “50 Years Later: Lessons of Massive Resistance.”Mayor Paul Fraim and Norfolk 17 member Louis Cousins unveil commemorative granite marker at Maury High School, where Cousins integrated on February 2, 1959.Dedication of Cannon Ball Trail Marker at First Baptist Bute Street on February 2, 2009. (L-R: Geraldine Talley Hobby, Olivia Driver Lindsay, Rev. Robert Murray (FBC), Lolita Portis-Jones, Delores Johnson Brown, Patricia Turner, Mayor Fraim, Councilwoman Daun Hester, Louis Cousins, Betty Jean Kea, Alveraze Gonsouland, LaVera Forbes Brown, Carolyn Wellington and Charles Corprew (EMR Commissioner and former FBC teacher for Norfolk 17).Mayor Paul Fraim speaks before the annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday on January 19, 2009. The march also marked the first event of the city's observance of the 5oth anniversary of the end of massive resistance.Mayor Paul Fraim leads the annual march in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King on January 19, 2009. The Mayor is flanked by Walter Hoffman Jr. the son of the United States District Court Judge who ruled that the state's policy of massive resistance was un-constitutional, and former Vice-Mayor Joseph Green. The march was the first in a series of events to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of massive resistance.
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Governor Timothy Kaine addresses attendees at the End of Massive Resistance luncheon on February 2, 2009 at the Murray Center, where he – and Mayor Paul Fraim – offered an apology for massive resistance.



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