Free education available to all children returned in September 1963 with the opening of the Kennedy Administration’s Prince Edward Free Schools. Over 1,500 students enrolled. Discover the challenges and success
Gallery VI – Rebirth
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Gallery V – Prince Edward County Says No
In 1959 when facing court-ordered school desegregation, Prince Edward County officials took the extreme step of closing all public schools rather than integrating. Learn about the decisions local families were
Gallery IV – Virgina Responds
The Supreme Court’s 1955 Brown II ruling —that public schools be integrated “with all deliberate speed” —failed to provide national leadership regarding the process of school desegregation. State and local
Gallery III – The Court Speaks
Here the Moton students hand their complaints to the NAACP attorneys. Their lawsuit, Davis v. Prince Edward, will become the largest and only student-initiated case decided as part of Brown
Gallery II – Living Separate But Unequal
Though founded upon the fundamental truth that “all men are created equal,” America, throughout its history, has struggled to live up to this ideal. In this gallery, the reality of