July 2000 Courtesy of Farmville Herald – July 14, 2000 Thomas Mayfield, left, president of the Robert R. Moton Museum board of directors, receives a certificate recognizing the museum as
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June 2000 Courtesy of Farmville Herald – June 21, 2000 Prior to his commencement address at Prince Edward County High School, former Virginia Governor L. Douglas Wilder, standing to the
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Farmville Herald – April 8, 1999 FARMVILLE, VA.- At 10:30 Friday morning, April 23, representatives of the National Park Service will present to this central Virginia community a preliminary plan
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(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
(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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