The Resource Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia, Jill Titus
Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia, Jill Titus
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- Summary
- "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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xiii p.
- Isbn
- 9780807835074
- Label
- Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia
- Title
- Brown's battleground
- Title remainder
- students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia
- Statement of responsibility
- Jill Titus
- Subject
-
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Civil rights movements -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- EDUCATION / History
- Educational equalization -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- African American students -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- Public schools -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- School integration -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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"--
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- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Titus, Jill Ogline
- Dewey number
- 379.2/609755632
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- LC214.22.V8
- LC item number
- T58 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- School integration
- Educational equalization
- Public schools
- African American students
- Civil rights movements
- Brown, Oliver
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
- EDUCATION / History
- Label
- Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia, Jill Titus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index
- Control code
- ocn711043306
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xiii p.
- Isbn
- 9780807835074
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2011015091
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward county, Virginia, Jill Titus
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-269) and index
- Control code
- ocn711043306
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xiii p.
- Isbn
- 9780807835074
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2011015091
- Other physical details
- ill.
Subject
- Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 -- Trials, litigation, etc
- Civil rights movements -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- EDUCATION / History
- Educational equalization -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- African American students -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- Public schools -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
- School integration -- Virginia | Prince Edward County
- HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
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