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Brown’s Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia

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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 vital five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system relatively than integrate.

Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County inside the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia’s decision to withstand desegregation. Even as 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 each intention of permanence. When the public schools in spite of everything reopened after five years of struggle–under direct order of the Supreme Court–county authorities employed each weapon in their arsenal to make sure 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 unusual people, black and white, battled, and continue to battle, over the role of public education in the US.

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