Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia / Jill Ogline Titus.

"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 Edwar...

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Main Author: Titus, Jill Ogline (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2011]
Subjects:
Brown, Oliver, > 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Brown, Oliver, > 1918-1961
School integration > Virginia > Prince Edward County.
Educational equalization > Virginia > Prince Edward County.
Public schools > Virginia > Prince Edward County.
African American students > Virginia > Prince Edward County.
Civil rights movements > Virginia > Prince Edward County.
EDUCATION > Administration > General.
EDUCATION > Educational Policy & Reform > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
African American students
Civil rights movements
Educational equalization
Public schools
School integration
Virginia > Prince Edward County
Trial and arbitral proceedings
Trials, litigation, etc.
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.
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Table of 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?

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