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Title A little child shall lead them : a documentary account of the struggle for school desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia / edited by Brian J. Daugherity and Brian Grogan
Published Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, 2019
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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 263, [1] page, 14 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Carter G. Woodson Institute series
Carter G. Woodson Institute series.
Contents Introduction -- Prologue: "The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia" -- "A Little Child Shall Lead Them" -- "Separate but Equal has no Place" -- "Massive Resistance" -- "With Profound Regret" -- "The Closed Schools" -- "The Free Schools" -- "Too Much Deliberation and Not Enough Speed" -- Epilogue: "A Pretty Good Place to Live."
Summary " ... A collection of primary documents addressing the civil rights-era struggle for public education in Prince Edward County, Virginia"--Editors' notes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Sources
Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- History -- Sources
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
School integration
Segregation in education
Virginia -- Prince Edward County
Genre/Form History
Sources
Form Electronic book
Author Daugherity, Brian J., 1972- editor.
Grogan, Brian, 1951- editor.
LC no. 2018060149
ISBN 9780813942735
081394273X
Other Titles Documentary account of the struggle for school desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia