Hampton Roads:: Remembering Our Schools

by Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Jeffrey Littlejohn, Charles H. Ford, Sonia Yaco, The Norfolk Historical Society

Overview

With this striking collection of historical images, experience a front-row view of the origination of the public school system within Hampton Roads and the epic struggle for racial equality. From the seventeenth century until the present, this area of the Old Dominion has been at the forefront of challenges, including Reconstruction, Jim Crow law, racial disharmony and public resistance to tax-based public schools. The fiftieth anniversary of the reopening of Norfolk's desegregated schools marks an especially appropriate occasion on which to look back at the evolution of public education in the Hampton Roads region.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596296022
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	02/01/2009
Series:	Vintage Images
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	126
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Cassandra Newby-Alexander is an Associate Professor of History at Norfolk State University. She co-wrote A Slave Ship Speaks: The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie. She is currently working on the history of African Americans in Norfolk, commissioned by the city of Norfolk, and in 2005 was recognized by American Legacy magazine as one of the nation's top teachers in African-American history at an Historically Black College. Jeffrey Littlejohn is an Assistant Professor of History at Sam Houston State University and previously taught at Norfolk State. Charles Ford is a Professor and Chair of the History department at Norfolk State University. Sonia Yaco is the Director, Special Collections Librarian, and University Archivist at Old Dominion University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 7

Introduction 9

Chapter 1 The Origins of Schooling in Hampton Roads, 1634-1870 13

Chapter 2 Early Years of Public Education in Hampton Roads, 1870-1936 25

Chapter 3 Early Efforts Toward Equalization of Schools, 1936-1954 43

Chapter 4 The Gathering Storm, 1954-1958 59

Chapter 5 A Broken Beginning, 1958-1959 74

Chapter 6 Freedom of Choice, 1960-1968 88

Chapter 7 Are We to Be Unitary? 1969-1986 102

Chapter 8 An Imperfect Irony: Schools in Hampton Roads, 1986-2008 115

Bibliography 126