| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 279 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Introduction: Moton High, 1951 -- Seizing the offensive -- We suffered our children to be destroyed -- Friends in the struggle -- The greatest gift we ever shall receive -- Digging up some liberals -- The long hot summer 1963 -- Washington, D.C., meets Farmville -- The law has spoken -- Standing together -- Moton High, 1969 -- Carrying on -- Conclusion: victors or victims? |
| Summary |
"When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across the South temporarily closed a building here or there to block a specific desegregation order, only in Prince Edward did local authorities abandon public education entirely--and with every intention of permanence. When the public schools finally reopened after five years of struggle--under direct order of the Supreme Court--county authorities employed every weapon in their arsenal to ensure that the newly reopened system remained segregated, impoverished, and academically substandard. Intertwining educational and children's history with the history of the black freedom struggle, Titus draws on little-known archival sources and new interviews to reveal the ways that ordinary people, black and white, battled, and continue to battle, over the role of public education in the United States"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-269) and index |
| Notes |
Online resource (HeinOnline, viewed June 30, 2021) |
| Subject |
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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| SUBJECT |
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc
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Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 fast |
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School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
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Educational equalization -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
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Public schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
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African American students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
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Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County
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EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
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EDUCATION -- Educational Policy & Reform -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- African American Studies.
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African American students
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Civil rights movements
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Educational equalization
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Public schools
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School integration
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Virginia -- Prince Edward County
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| Genre/Form |
Trial and arbitral proceedings
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Trials, litigation, etc.
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Trial and arbitral proceedings.
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Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780807869369 |
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0807869368 |
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9781469602455 |
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1469602458 |
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