The educational lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964) : personal accounts and reflections / [edited by] Terence Hicks and Abul Pitre.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hicks, Terence.

Pitre, Abul.

Series:

Issues in black education series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public school closings--Virginia--Prince Edward County--History--20th century.

Public school closings.

African Americans--Education--Virginia--Prince Edward County--History--20th century.

African Americans.

County school systems--Virginia--Prince Edward County.

County school systems.

Segregation in education--Virginia--Prince Edward County.

Segregation in education.

African Americans--Education.

History.

Virginia--Prince Edward County.

Physical Description:

xviii, 99 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2010]

Contents:

"Grassroots schools" and training centers in the Prospect district of Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1959-1964 / Amy Tillerson-Brown

We will move : the Kennedy administration and restoring public education to Prince Edward County, Virginia / Brian E. Lee

Farmville, 1963 : the long hot summer / Jill Ogline Titus

Black resilience vs. white resistance in Prince Edward County / John Craig

Northerners in a Jim Crow world : Queens College summer experience / Michael R. Wenger and Stan F. Shaw

A lecture from the children of the "lost-generation" of students from Prince Edward County, Virginia / Terence Hicks

Reflections of African American parents, teachers, and students in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1959-1964 / Michael K. Herndon.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780761850625

0761850627

9780761850632

0761850635

OCLC:

496966832