Research Catalog

Title

Brown's battleground : students, segregationists, and the struggle for justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia / Jill Ogline Titus.

Author

Titus, Jill Ogline

Publication

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2011.

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Description

xiii, 279 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

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"--Provided by publisher.

Uniform Title

• Project Muse UPCC books
• ebrary.

Subject

• Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961 > Trials, litigation, etc
• Geschichte 1951-2000
• EDUCATION / History
• SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
• School integration > Prince Edward County
• Educational equalization > Prince Edward County
• Public schools > Prince Edward County
• African American students > Prince Edward County
• Civil rights movements > Prince Edward County
• HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)

Genre/Form

• Trial and arbitral proceedings
• Trials, litigation, etc.
• Comptes rendus de procès et d'arbitrage.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: Moton High, 1951 -- Seizing the offensive -- We suffered our children to be destroyed -- Friends in the struggle -- The greatest gift we ever shall receive -- Digging up some liberals -- The long hot summer, 1963 -- Washington, D.C., meets farmville -- The law has spoken -- Standing together -- Moton High, 1969 -- Carrying on -- Conclusion: Victors or victims?

ISBN

• 9780807835074 (hardback)
• 0807835072 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2011015091

OCLC

711043306

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library