The Defenders of State Sovereignty and Individual Liberties was a political group dedicated to strict segregation in Virginia schools.
In June 1955 it published its Plan for Virginia.
[1] The words of Richard Crawford, president of the Defenders, are recognizable today as dog-whistle politics.
[2] The Defenders advocated an amendment to the state constitution to allow the creation of state tuition vouchers and to withdraw state funding for integrated schools.
A ballot measure on January 9, 1956, passed by a vote of 304,154 to 146,164.