Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. leaves $760,000 to 76 employees of his family’s newspapers

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Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr. leaves $760,000 to 76 employees of his family’s newspapers
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Former Sen. Harry F. Byrd Jr., who died in July at age 98, left $10,000 to each full-time employee who has worked more than 10 years at his family’s Virginia newspapers. Byrd started working at the Winchester Star in 1935 and served on its board until his death, His son, Thomas T. Byrd, is currently publisher. The Byrd family bought the paper in 1897, a year after it was founded.

Byrd’s $760,000 will go to 41 staffers at the Harrisonburg Daily News-Record; 31 at the Winchester Star; three at the Elkton Banner; and one at the Warren Sentinel.

Byrd also gave money to the John Handley Regional Library ($250,000); Salvation Army ($100,000); University of Virginia Manuscripts Library ($100,000); Christ Episcopal Church of Winchester ($100,000); Virginia Historical Society ($100,000); Henry and William Evans Home ($50,000); Winchester-Frederick Historical Society ($50,000); and The Masonic Home ($50,000).

On the other hand, however: Massive resistance

Massive resistance was a policy declared by U.S. Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of Virginia on February 24, 1956, to unite other white politicians and leaders in Virginia in a campaign of new state laws and policies to prevent public school desegregation after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. Although most of the laws created to implement Massive Resistance were negated by state and federal courts by January 1960, some policies and effects of the campaign against integrated public schools continued in Virginia for many more years; many schools, and even an entire school system, were shut down in preference to integration.

Yes, that was 57 years ago, but the effects lasted for decades.