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A Little Child Shall Lead Them : A Documentary Account of the Struggle for School Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia /

In the twentieth-century struggle for racial equality, there was perhaps no setting more fraught and contentious than the public schools of the American south. In Prince Edward County, Virginia, in 1951, a student strike for better school facilities became part of the NAACP legal campaign for school...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Grogan, Brian, 1951- (Editor), Daugherity, Brian J., 1972- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Virginia Press, 2019.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction - Prologue: "The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia" - "A Little Child Shall Lead Them" - "Separate but Equal has no Place" - "Massive Resistance" - "With Profound Regret" - "The Closed Schools" - "The Free Schools" - "Too Much Deliberation and Not Enough Speed" - Epilogue: "A Pretty Good Place to Live"