We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America’s Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia 1st Edition P. O’Connell Pearson

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 166590139X
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1665901390
• Author(s): P. O’Connell Pearson

In 1954, after the passing of Brown v. the Board of Education, the all-White school board of one county in south central Virginia made the decision to close its public schools rather than integrate. Those schools stayed closed for five years.

While the affluent White population of Prince Edward County built a private school—for White children only—Black children and their families had to find other ways to learn. Some Black children were home schooled by unemployed Black teachers. Some traveled thousands of miles away to live with relatives, friends, or even strangers. Some didn’t go to school at all.

But many stood up and became young activists, fighting for one of the rights America claims belongs to all: the right to learn.

Table contents:

Chapter 1: Unequal
Chapter 2: Hard History
Chapter 3: Strike
Chapter 4: Going Bigger
Chapter 5: Massive Resistance
Chapter 6: Shattered Dreams
Chapter 7: Scrambling
Chapter 8: A National Scandal
Chapter 9: Turning Point
Chapter 10: The Free Schools
Chapter 11: Up and Running
Chapter 12: Damaged Victory
Chapter 13: Facing the Past
Chapter 14: Unfinished Business

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