🖤 Today in Black History… On December 2, 1955, a Black man in Richmond named Robert Leon Bacon wrote directly to Virginia governor Thomas B. Stanley, the public face of “Massive Resistance” to school desegregation after Brown v. Board. On TV, officials talked about “states’ rights” and “order.” In Bacon’s life, it meant that the law, the police, and white citizens worked together to keep him in fear. From his home on West Marshall Street, Bacon described how he could not safely look at a white

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