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Something must be done about Prince Edward County : a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle / Kristen Green. by Green, Kristen (Journalist) Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015] Call #: 379.263 G796s Subjects Green, Kristen (Journalist)   Students, Black -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   Students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   Blacks -- Education -- United States.   Educational equalization -- United States.   School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka.   Public schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   School closings -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   School closings -- Social aspects -- United States.   Race relations -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.   Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.   Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Race relations. ISBN:  9780062268679 (hc.) 0062268678 (hc.) Edition:  First edition. Description:  x, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-302) and index. Contents:  Separate but not equal. A perfectly charming Southern town ; Homecoming in Black and white ; Prince Edward joins "Brown v. Board of Education" ; My family's part ; Locked out -- The Lost Generation. The Segregation Academy ; Waiting and seeing ; Nigger lovers ; "You go where your parents tell you to" ; Elsie's other life ; The hour is late ; A bus ticket and a world away ; Then and now ; "Brown" stokes the flames ; Two steps forward, one step back ; Building a life without a foundation -- Integration. "We are all God's children" ; The schools today ; "We all wish it hadn't happened" ; A healing place for the community ; The new normal. Summary:  "This provocative true story reveals a little known chapter of American history: the period after the Supreme Court's 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate. The Court's unanimous decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal." As a result, racial segregation was ruled a violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution. This ruling paved the way for school integration. Virginia's Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The community's 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. Journalist Kristen Green 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 children denied an education. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation's past, her own family's role, no less complex and painful, comes to light"--Provided by publisher. Holds:  1   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Black Nonfiction 379.263 G796s Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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