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Article: Virginia's experience. (Virginia's Governor L. Douglas Wilder's push for accessible education for Black students)
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- Black Issues in Higher Education
- Article date:
- September 17, 1998
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Despite what some viewed as the `ideal' Black leadership team, education gains were limited during Wilder administration
The 1989 election of L. Douglas Wilder as governor of Virginia proved exciting to the nation. When Wilder became the first African American governor in the commonwealth, and the first in the nation since Reconstruction, many Black Virginians had high hopes for his administration. Those hopes were especially high for expected improvement in educational opportunities for minorities.
Wilder served as governor from 1990 to 1994. In the arena of education, Wilder appointed Jim Dyke, an African American attorney, to serve as the ...