Alexander Leidholdt book, “Standing before the Shouting Mob” talks about the struggle of desegregation in Norfolk, Virginia. In 1958, the city of Norfolk closes six white predominant high schools causing ten thousand students to be locked out of school because the federal government wanted to prevent schools to be desegregated. This allowed the government not to provide funds for the schools because they would rather close schools than to integrate them. With the closing of the schools citizens became furious and angry that the city began to divide.
