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wielded power quietly. The last thing he wanted was confrontation and he largely managed to avoid if until the “Massive Resistance” days of the 1950s and 1960s when the prospect of desegregation suddenly clouded what had always been a judgment based on reason.
After the Supreme Court struck down segregated schools and other federal courts threatened to go further, Byrd predicted a class war in which whites would attack blacks who were petitioning for integrated schools and openly predicted the Supreme Court would adopt a “disastrous” policy of declaring laws against racially mixed marriages illegal.
When Governor Lindsay Almond, a long-time machine loyalist, had no choice but to obey what the Supreme Court said was the law of the land, Byrd criticized Almond’s “defeatist” behavior and refused to ever meet with him again. Later Byrd blocked Almond’s appointment by President
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