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'A release for the city': New 8-foot wall honors Norfolk 17, lost class of 1959

The purpose of the wall is to recognize both the Norfolk 17 and the white students known as the lost class of 1959 who were forced out of their schools by the closure.

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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.

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'The work is not done. I only opened the door': Member of Norfolk 17 shares experience at ODU panel


Posted at 9:52 PM, Feb 17, 2021
and last updated 2021-02-18 12:03:51-05
NORFOLK, Va. – At 76 years old, Dr. Patricia Turner remembers the day she stepped foot in Norview Jr. High School.
She was 14. "We were taught how to be a soldier,” said Turner.
She was also taught how to react when attacked by white students.
Students spitting on her are some of her worst memories.
"I was told to wipe it off because it was just water and to always stand tall,” she adds.
Today, she’s able to share her story - a story leaders at Old Dominion University want to preserve.

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