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The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections (Issues in Black Education)

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The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections provides ground-breaking research at the historical events surrounding the Prince Edward County’s school closings. For 5 years (1959-1964), the families of 1,700 African American students were forced to deal with the absence of public schooling Within the county. Their efforts led to the case Davis v. the County School Board of Prince Edward County, which was once one of the most cases that were consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas. The book offers the reader two exciting sections. Within the first section, the contributing authors provide interesting findings on Grassroots schools, the Kennedy administration, and an African American movement all over the Prince Edward County school closings. In the second one section, the authors give you the reader with personal reflections and a lecture from four professors whose parents were suffering from the Prince Edward County lockout. Three of the four professors were graduates of the Prince Edward County school system.

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