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The 'Norfolk 17′ desegregated the city's all-white schools 64 years ago. A new book tells the story of one Norview alum. – Daily Press
“Heidelberg of the Norfolk 17,” a book about the desegregation of Norfolk schools — and Virginia high school football — launches Thursday, exactly 64 years after federal courts ordered the doors of Norfolk’s all-white schools opened to Black students on Feb. 2, 1959, with an event at Slover Library on Thursday at 5:30 p.m.
Source: dailypress.com