The Perrow family lived in the Fort Hill neighborhood of Lynchburg and at Staunton View Farm in Campbell County, Virginia.

[3] He enjoyed his time on his farm overlooking the Staunton River raising crops, hogs, and briefly, Black Angus.

He was active in local and state Democratic Party circles for many years and was a leading advisor to several Virginia governors.

[4] Although powerful Senator Harry F. Byrd was stunned and would not admit defeat, attorney general Albertis Harrison defended the governor's shift toward accommodation.

[8] Setting aside the many Dissenting Opinions in the Report, even the Concurring Statements show just how engrained segregation was at the time in the minds of many of the men who served in the Senate and on the Commission whose votes were required to end Massive Resistance.

[9] Accordingly, while the recommended changes to legislation and Virginia Constitution make it clear that the primary objectives of the Perrow Report recommendations were to keep public schools open and end Massive Resistance—which when adopted, the amendments achieved on both accounts—the Perrow Commission Report includes painful compromise language that "The Commission is opposed to integration and offers the program set out herein because it thinks it is the best that can be devised at this time to avoid integration and preserve our public schools.

[6] On the eve of the senate's vote on adopting the recommendations of the Perrow Commission's report, five thousand people (mostly from Southside Virginia) gathered in Richmond's Capital Square, condemning Governor Almond and Lieutenant Governor Stephens for their support of the Perrow Commission's recommendations and for betraying the Massive Resistance movement.

Carter had opposed the tuition assistance aspects of the Gray plan, but had recently undergone major surgery.

Undeterred, the pro-Perrow faction found Carter and wheeled him into the Senate chamber to cast the decisive favorable vote.

"[11] The senate's passage of the "local option" put an end to Massive Resistance, which now seems inevitable, but at the time was supported by powerful political and social leaders.

In 1959, a report championed by Perrow succeeded in persuading a majority of Virginia Highway Commissioners to support the southern route.