Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia

by Jill Titus and Jill Ogline Titus

Book Overview

When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under Brown, abolished its public school system rather than integrate.

Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by Brown and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1469619075
• ISBN13: 9781469619071
• Release Date: August 2014
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"