Southern Stalemate

Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Bibliographic Data

ID5705689
AuthorsKym Anderson (0000-0002-1472-3352, University of Arizona, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume99
Issue4
Pages1311-1312
Publication date2013-03-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of American History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0021-8723 • E-ISSN: 1945-2314
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/jahist/jas545
OpenAlexW2331672975
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In 1951 African American students at the segregated R. R. Moton High School in Prince Edward County, Virginia, staged a walkout to protest the abysmal conditions prevalent in black schools in the county. As a result, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People added the students' complaint to the others that would form the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case. After the Supreme Court's historic decision, local white officials joined others in the South in a campaign of massive resistance to school desegregation. Unlike other districts that complied minimally with federal court mandates to maintain public schools, Prince Edward County closed its schools for five years. Southern Stalemate is an insightful account of the dynamics behind this notorious example of massive resistance. How can we explain, Christopher Bonastia wonders, a community that was willing to close public schools permanently to maintain white supremacy? How did it differ from those southern areas that were not willing to do so

Complaint · Desegregation · Political science · Politics · Public education · Resistance (ecology · Stalemate · Supreme court · White (mutation · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · History · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · School Choice and Performance

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