Book Your Summer Shop NowBook Your Summer Shop Now
Add Item to wish listAdd Item to wish list
Read sample

Road to Healing, The: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia

By Ken Woodley, Tim Kaine (Afterword), Mark Warner (Foreword by)
Hardcover
$28.95
By Ken Woodley, Tim Kaine (Afterword), Mark Warner (Foreword by)
Promotion message icon
Premium Members save an extra 10% and all Members collect stamps to save with Rewards. 10 stamps = $5.Learn More
Formats
See All Formats & Editions
In stock
This item is currently out of stock online.
Free standard shipping on orders over $60
Select a store to view item availability.
Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" to the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board decision of 1954. The editorial pages of the local family-owned newspaper, The Farmville Herald, led the fight to lock classrooms rather than integrate them. The school system remained closed until the fall of 1964, when the County was forced by federal courts to comply with the school integration ordered by Brown. The vast majority of white chil...

Categories

HistoryUnited States History20th Century United States History - General & Miscellaneous20th Century American History - General & Miscellaneous