THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, May 26, 1995 TAG: 9505260556
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: NEW YORK TIMES
LENGTH: Short : 29 lines
Kathryn Haeseler Stone, a former Virginia legislator who challenged school segregation and a reapportionment plan that penalized urban voters, died last Friday at her home in Alexandria. She was 88 and had been a longtime resident of Arlington.
Elected to the Virginia General Assembly five months before the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. the Board of Education in 1954, she became an early promoter of school desegregation.
She was among those who argued that the state keep open its public schools and resist the trend to privatize schools as a means of resisting integration.
Stone also was one of four plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging Virginia's reapportionment plan that reached the Supreme Court in 1964. The court's decision forced the redrawing of districts to balance the representation of urban and rural voters. by CNB