Southern stalemate : five years without public education in Prince Edward County, Virginia / Christopher Bonastia.

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Bonastia, Christopher, 1967-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780226063911
0226063917

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Southern stalemate.DDC classification:

379.2/63 23

LOC classification:

LC214.22.V8 B66 2012eb

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Contents:

Why Prince Edward County? -- White supremacy and black resistance in Prince Edward County and Virginia -- No middle ground: the rapid ascent of massive resistance -- Breaking the basket of eggs: the collapse of massive resistance -- "The doors was chained, so i knew then": educational options during the closing years -- The federal government confronts the "lone pocket of ludicrous resistance" -- "Clean as a hound's tooth": white justifications for the school closings -- From the courtroom to the street: black activism in Prince Edward -- The grudging resumption of public education -- Conclusion: a county ahead of its time?

Summary: In 1959, Virginia & rsquo;s Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citizens public education. Investigating this remarkable and nearly forgotten story of local, state, and federal political confrontation, Christopher Bonastia recounts the test of wills that pitted resolute African Americans against equally steadfast white segregationists in a battle over the future of public education in America. Beginning in 1951.

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In 1959, Virginia & rsquo;s Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts decided if the county could continue to deny its citizens public education. Investigating this remarkable and nearly forgotten story of local, state, and federal political confrontation, Christopher Bonastia recounts the test of wills that pitted resolute African Americans against equally steadfast white segregationists in a battle over the future of public education in America. Beginning in 1951.

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