In the last of a five-part series on the struggle for public school integration in the Shenandoah Valley and Charlottesville, WMRA's Randi B. Hagi got some words of wisdom from each of the six people she talked to.

In the fourth of a five-part series, WMRA's Randi B. Hagi talks to two of the earliest African American graduates of Harrisonburg High School – one of many school districts throughout Virginia that slid more quietly into compliance with desegregation after the failure of Massive Resistance.

In the third of a five-part series, WMRA's Randi B. Hagi speaks with two of the people who, as children, broke the color barrier at Venable Elementary School in Charlottesville.

In the second of a five-part series, WMRA's Randi B. Hagi speaks with two siblings who were at the forefront of school desegregation in Warren County. (Please be advised that this story recounts mentions of violence, and contains an offensive racial slur, and a mention of sexual assault.)

In the first of a five-part series, WMRA's Randi B. Hagi presents a timeline of Virginia's massive resistance policies, and the struggle to desegregate public schools in the Shenandoah Valley and Charlottesville.