Blossom was removed from office in 1958 when most of the Little Rock Board of Education resigned and the Arkansas state government closed the schools.
After a short stay in New York, he moved to San Antonio, Texas to continue his career in education.
Despite the plan General Faubus called the National Guard to turn students away from the school.
Virgil Blossom received numerous death threats and promises to put him out of work during his term as the superintendent.
Blossom wrote about his experiences in Little Rock, first as a series of articles in The Saturday Evening Post[2] and subsequently in a memoir titled It Has Happened Here (1959).