02945nam a2200385 a 4500 ebr10521886 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 110421s2011 ncua sb 001 0deng d 2011015091 9780807835074 (hardback) 9780807869369 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)772236707 n-us-va LC214.22.V8 T58 2011eb 379.2/609755632 22 Titus, Jill Ogline. Brown's battleground [electronic resource] : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia / Jill Ogline Titus. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011. xiii, 279 p. : ill. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index. "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. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 Trials, litigation, etc. 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. Electronic books. local ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10521886 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 238296 238296