The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia - Hardcover
by Ken Woodley
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Availability:In StockContributor:Tim Kaine (Afterword by), Ken Woodley, Mark Warner (Foreword by)Publish date:2019-04-01Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588383549ISBN-10:1588383547UPC:9781588383549Book Category:History, EducationBook Subcategory:African American & Black, History, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCBSKQK1Z7
The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" to the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board decision of 1954. The editorial pages of the local family-owned newspaper, The Farmville Herald, led the fight to lock classrooms rather than integrate them. The school system remained closed until the fall of 1964, when the County was forced by...
Language:EnglishPublisher:NewSouth BooksISBN-13:9781588383549ISBN-10:1588383547UPC:9781588383549Book Category:History, EducationBook Subcategory:African American & Black, History, United StatesBook Topic:State & LocalSize:9.10 x 6.20 x 1.00 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCBSKQK1Z7
KEN WOODLEY was a journalist for 36 years at The Farmville Herald in Prince Edward County, Virginia, the final 24 years as editor. Unknown to Woodley, the community had been ground zero for white opposition to the US Supreme Court's landmark Brown v. Board decision of 1954. Rather than integrate classrooms, Prince Edward County shut down its entire public school system from 1959 to 1964, a policy...
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Tim Kaine (Afterword by), Ken Woodley, Mark Warner (Foreword by)
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