Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle

by Kristen Green

Book Overview

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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.

In the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Virginia's Prince Edward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062268686
• ISBN13: 9780062268686
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

interesting but

It is a decent perceptive and some good background of the Virginia community that went to such extremes against integration of schools. There was too much opinion then too much reporting of outside events for me.