Lane High School

This Charlottesville, Virginia high school served residents of Charlottesville and Albemarle County until its 1974 closing. It became too small to accommodate the student body, and was replaced by Charlottesville High School. [cite web |title=About Walker Upper Elementary |url=http://www.ccs.k12.va.us/schools/walker/about.html |publisher=County of Albemarle |accessdate=2008-09-16 |quote=The history of Walker School began with the concept of Junior High Schools in Charlottesville in 1962, when solutions were sought to relieve overcrowding at Lane High School. Those decisions led to the development of plans for two schools, one on each side of town.] In 1981, the building was converted for use as the Albemarle County Office Building, for which it remains in use today. [cite press release |title=County to Celebrate 25th Year Anniversary of Lane High School Conversion into County Office Buildling |publisher=County of Albemarle |date=2006-10-25 |url=http://www.albemarle.org/release.asp?ID=8871&releases=archive |accessdate=2008-06-21 |quote=In the fall of 1981 divisions of Albemarle County government from six locations scattered around the county and Charlottesville came together for the first time when Lane High School underwent a $6 million conversion to become the new County Office Building.]

Massive resistance

On September 10, 1958, federal courts ordered public schools in Charlottesville to integrate their racially segregated schools. In response, Virginia Governor James Lindsay Almond, Jr. ordered closed several schools in Virginia, including Lane, as a part of the state's Massive Resistance policy. Lane was closed from September 19, 1958 until February 4, 1959. [cite web |url=http://www.vahistory.org/massive.resistance/timeline.html |title=Massive Resistance timeline |accessdate=2008-06-22]

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