Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County
A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: x, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
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.
Subjects:
Green, Kristen (Journalist)
African American students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Biography.
School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Educational equalization -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Green, Kristen (Journalist)
African American students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Biography.
School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Educational equalization -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
ISBN:
9780062268679
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HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Civil Rights Gre | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Nonfiction | In |
HISTORY North Am. US AF AM Civil Rights Gre | Sandhills Indoors | Nonfiction | In |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-[303]) and index.