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<p>When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in <i>Brown v. Board of Education</i> in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under <i>Brown</i>, abolished its public school system rather than integrate.</p> <p>Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by <i>Brown</i> 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
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- Author
- Brown, Oliver;Titus, Jill Ogline
- Publisher
- University of North Carolina Press; The University of North Carolina Press; Brand: The University of North Carolina Press
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780807869369
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Education, Science
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