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Nov 1, 2021 · A. Linwood Holton Jr., who as Virginia’s first Republican governor in nearly a century knocked loose the stranglehold of white supremacy on the state, cleaned up its waterways and promoted...
Oct 28, 2021 · Former Gov. Linwood Holton – who passed away Thursday at age 98 – is rightly famous for bringing an end to a sorry era of Virginia politics and ushering in another. There were many people who helped bring down the segregationist Byrd Machine that ruled Virginia as a one-party state – some were liberals who tried to redefine the Democratic ...
- Dwayne Yancey
Oct 29, 2021 · Former Republican Virginia Gov. A. Linwood Holton Jr., an anti-segregationist and the state’s first GOP governor to be elected post-Reconstruction, has died, according to a tweet from his...
Oct 29, 2021 · A. Linwood Holton Jr., Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination, died Thursday. He was 98.
Oct 29, 2021 · RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A. Linwood Holton Jr., Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination, died Thursday. He was 98.
Oct 28, 2021 · A. Linwood Holton Jr., the reformist Virginia governor best remembered for racially integrating the state’s public schools with the dramatic gesture of accompanying his daughter to a...
Oct 29, 2021 · A. Linwood Holton Jr., Virginia’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction and a crusader against racial discrimination, has died. He was 98. His family says he died peacefully Thursday...
