(10) Eventually, all state and local efforts to resist integration would collapse. The Prince Edward County public school system reopened in 1964 and the newer Moton High School (1954) was
Category: History
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(9) Because district courts were instructed to ensure compliance, the Davis case, the initial Prince Edward County desegregation case, continued even after the Brown decision was handed down. The litigation
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(8) The NAACP continued the battle in the courts while Griffin, chairman of the Moton P.T.A. at the time of the strike, continued efforts at the local level. In 1963,
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(7) Virginia’s strategy for preventing integration changed its emphasis and tactics several times between the years 1954 and 1959. A state pupil placement act, passed in 1956, removed from the
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(6) Known as Davis et al v. the County School Board of Prince Edward County, VA, et al, the case was decided by a lower court in favor of the