RACE AND EDUCATION IN AMERICA

Kristen Green, Something Must be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle (New York: Harper, 2015) (From the book cover: "In the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Virginia's Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its pubic schools, locking and chaining the doors. The community's white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use in their all-white classrooms. Meanwhile, black parents had few options: keep their kids home, move across county lines, or send their kids to live with relatives in other states. For five years, the schools remained closed.").