Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle Paperback - 2016
by Green, Kristen
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- Title Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
- Author Green, Kristen
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 368
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Date 2016
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # 075978
- ISBN 9780062268686 / 0062268686
- Weight 0.6 lbs (0.27 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.3 x 0.9 in (20.32 x 13.46 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Ethnic Orientation: African American
- Geographic Orientation: Virginia
- Topical: Black History
- Library of Congress subjects Prince Edward County (Va.) - Race relations, Segregation in education - Virginia - Prince
- Dewey Decimal Code 379.263
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From the rear cover
A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
"[Green's] thoughtful book is a gift to a new generation of readers who need to know this story."--Washington Post
In the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Virginia's Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The community's white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use in their all-white classrooms. Meanwhile, black parents had few options: keep their kids at home, move across county lines, or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years, the schools remained closed.
Kristen Green, a longtime newspaper reporter, grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, which didn't admit black students until 1986. In her journey to uncover what happened in her hometown before she was born, Green tells the stories of families divided by the school closures and the 1,700 black children denied an education. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation's past, her own family's role--no less complex and painful--comes to light.
"Intimate and candid."--Richmond Times-Dispatch
"Not easily forgotten."--Minneapolis Star Tribune
