Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle

作者: Kristen Green

出版社:HarperCollins

出版時(shí)間:2015-06

ISBN:9780062268679

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Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period after theBrown v. Board of Educationdecision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
In the wake of the Supreme Courts unanimousBrown v. Board of Educationdecision, Virginias Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The communitys white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use in their all-white classrooms. Meanwhile, black parents had few options: keep their kids at home, move across county lines, or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years, the schools remained closed.
Kristen Green, a longtime newspaper reporter, grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, which did not admit black students until 1986. In her journey to uncover what happened in her hometown before she was born, Green tells the stories of families divided by the school closures and of 1,700 black chi... (展開(kāi))

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