Title: Exploring the Resiliency, Achievement, and Academic Success of a Direct Descendant of the Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959–1964) School Lockout
Abstract: In the fall of 1959, the Prince Edward County’s (PEC) public schools of Virginia were locked and chained in resistance to desegregation; and for the next five years there was no public school system. The all-White school board voted not to appropriate funds for the public schools if Black and White children were to attend together. For five years, 1959–1964, the families of 1,700 African American students were forced to cope with the absence of public schooling in the county. Their efforts led to the case, Davis v. the County School Board of Prince Edward County, which was one of the cases that were consolidated with Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas.
Publication Year: 2016
Publication Date: 2016-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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