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The Commission on Public Education, known as the VPEC or Gray Commission (after its chair, Virginia state senator Garland Gray), was a 32-member commission established by Governor of Virginia Thomas B. Stanley on August 23, 1954 to study the effects of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Brown v. Board of Education issued on May 17, 1954 and May 31, 1955, and to make recommendations.[1] Its counsel were David J. Mays (until December 1957) and his associate Henry T. Wickham.[2]

  1. ^ E. Griffith Dodson, The General Assembly of Virginia 1939-1960 (Richmond: Virginia State Library 1961) p. 311
  2. ^ James Sweeney (ed.), Race, Reason and Massive Resistance: the Diaries of David J. Mays (University of Georgia Press 2008)

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