We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia

by P. O’Connell Pearson

Book Overview

This "detailed, fascinating" (Booklist, starred review) nonfiction middle grade book explores a deeply troubling chapter in American history that is still playing out today: the strange case of Prince Edward County, Virginia, the only place in the United States to ever formally deny its citizens a public education, and the students who pushed back.

In 1954, after the passing of Brown v. the Board of Education, the all-White school...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 166590139X
• ISBN13: 9781665901390
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8