Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggl

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press (View Publisher's Titles)

US SRP: $ 34.95 US

Binding: Hardcover

Pub Date: October 30, 2011

Annotation: When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in "Brown v. Board of Education" in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by "Brown" and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation and reveals the ways that ordinary people, black and white, battled, and continue to battle, over the role of public education in the United States.