students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia Titus, Jill Ogline. creator ebrary, Inc text bibliography biography Electronic books. ncu Chapel Hill University of North Carolina Press c2011 2011 monographic eng

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xiii, 279 p. : ill. "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"-- Jill Ogline Titus. Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2012. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. n-us-va 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 LC214.22.V8 T58 2011eb 379.2/609755632 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10521886 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10521886 CaPaEBR 110421 ebr10521886