Harry Flood Byrd was a racist governor who actively fought the desegregation of Virginia's public schools. Putting his name on a school is an affront to every student who walks through its doors.

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Education was not on his agenda, and state spending for public schools remained very low until the 1960s. Byrd became one of the most vocal proponents of maintaining policies of racial segregation. Byrd authored and signed the "Southern Manifesto" condemning the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. His call for "massive resistance" against desegregation of public schools led to many Virginia schools closing rather than be forced to integrate.[4]

He helped draft a series of laws, known as the Stanley plan, to implement his "massive resistance" policy. led to closure of some public school systems in Virginia between 1959 and 1964, most notably a five-year gap in public education in Prince Edward County, Virginia.[5]