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Green, Kristen (Journalist), author.
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School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Public schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
School closings -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
School closings -- Social aspects -- United States.
African American students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Race relations.
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Something must be do...
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Something must be done about Prince Edward County : a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle / Kristen Green.
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Green, Kristen (Journalist), author.
New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2015.
Subjects
Green, Kristen (Journalist)
School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Public schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
School closings -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
School closings -- Social aspects -- United States.
African American students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Prince Edward County (Va.) -- Race relations.
ISBN:
9780062268679 (hardcover)
Description:
x, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Contents:
Separate but not equal. A perfectly charming Southern town ; Homecoming in Black and white ; Prince Edward joins "Brown v. Board of Education" ; My family's part ; Locked out -- The Lost Generation. The Segregation Academy ; Waiting and seeing ; Nigger lovers ; "You go where your parents tell you to" ; Elsie's other life ; The hour is late ; A bus ticket and a world away ; Then and now ; "Brown" stokes the flames ; Two steps forward, one step back ; Building a life without a foundation -- Integration. "We are all God's children" ; The schools today ; "We all wish it hadn't happened" ; A healing place for the community ; The new normal.
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Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history-- the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.
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Kailua-Kona Public Library
Adult Nonfiction
379.26309 Gr
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