Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County - A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle

Zusatztext "Kristen Green was born to write this book?..[She] deftly interweaves the personal and the historical into a compelling narrative that leaves no stone unturned?.[N]ot only fascinating but cinematic?[A]n award-worthy book." Informationen zum Autor Kristen Green has worked as a reporter for the Boston Globe! San Diego Union-Tribune ! and Richmond Times-Dispatch . She holds a master’s degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. This is her first book. She lives in Richmond! Virginia. Klappentext A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year “[Green’s] thoughtful book is a gift to a new generation of readers who need to know this story.”— Washington Post 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 public 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 at home! move across county lines! or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years! the schools remained closed. Kristen Green! a longtime newspaper reporter! grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy! which didn’t admit black students until 1986. In her journey to uncover what happened in her hometown before she was born! Green tells the stories of families divided by the school closures and the 1!700 black children denied an education. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation’s past! her own family’s role—no less complex and painful—comes to light. “Intimate and candid.”— Richmond Times-Dispatch “Not easily forgotten.”— Minneapolis Star Tribune Zusammenfassung NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative! this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period after the  Brown v. Board of Education  decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate. 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 public 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 at home! move across county lines! or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years! the schools remained closed. Kristen Green! a longtime newspaper reporter! grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy! which did not admit black students until 1986. In her journey to uncover what happened in her hometown before she was born! Green tells the stories of families divided by the school closures and of 1!700 black children denied an education. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation’s past! her own family’s role—no less complex and painful—comes to light. At once gripping! enlightening! and deeply moving!  Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County  is a dramatic chronicle that explores our troubled racial past and its reverberations today! and a timeless story about compassion! forgiveness! and the meaning of home. ...

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kristen Green
• Verlag: Harper Collins Usa
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 09.06.2015
• EAN: 9780062268679
• ISBN: 978-0-06-226867-9
• Seiten: 336
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 229 mm x 28 mm
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Zeitgeschichte (1945 bis 1989); HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: AFRICAN-AMERICAN, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Social Activists, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, HISTORY: ETHNIC, AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES: HISTORY, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Discrimination, SOCIOLOGY: EDUCATION, POLITICAL SCIENCE: Civil Rights, EDUCATION: ISSUES IN EDUCATION, SOCIOLOGY: AFRICAN AMERICAN