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Author Green, Kristen.

Title Something must be done about Prince Edward County : a family, a Virginia town, a civil rights battle / Kristen Green.

Publication Info. New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2015]
©2015

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 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Manross Branch - Non Fiction  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - New Books  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  379.263 GREEN    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  379.26 G82    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description x, 320 pages, [8] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-303) and index.
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.
Summary 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.
Subject Green, Kristen (Journalist)
African American students -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County -- Biography.
School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Educational equalization -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Civil rights movements -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Public schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Prince Edward County (VA)
ISBN 9780062268679: $25.99
0062268678
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