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“The Issue Is the Control of Public Schools”: The Politics of Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia

“The Issue Is the Control of Public Schools”: The Politics of Desegregation in Prince Edward... essay .................... "The Issue Is the Control of Public Schools" The Politics of Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia by Dwana Waugh The issue is not the people versus the public schools . . . The issue is the control of public schools. The question is: Will public education be controlled by the people who pay for it, or by the federal courts, which under pressure of organized minorities threaten to dominate it? --J. Barrye Wall, "The True Story of Prince Edward County" 1 After the Supreme Court declared segregated education unconstitutional in 1954, Prince Edward County's white community and political leaders stopped funding the public schools and sustained a "massively resistant" approach for five years--the only community in the nation to do so. R. R. Moton High School, courtesy of VCU Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives. efore a packed crowd of over 700 parents, teachers, and students, R. R. Moton High School alumnus Willie Shepperson revealed the high stakes involved with public school desegregation. At the April 28, 1969, Prince Edward County school board meeting, he outlined the county's troubling educational and racial history and assured school officials that "blacks, like whites, did http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

“The Issue Is the Control of Public Schools”: The Politics of Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia

Waugh, Dwana.
Southern Cultures , Volume 18 (3) – Aug 13, 2012
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essay .................... "The Issue Is the Control of Public Schools" The Politics of Desegregation in Prince Edward County, Virginia by Dwana Waugh The issue is not the people versus the public schools . . . The issue is the control of public schools. The question is: Will public education be controlled by the people who pay for it, or by the federal courts, which under pressure of organized minorities threaten to dominate it? --J. Barrye Wall, "The True Story of Prince Edward County" 1 After the Supreme Court declared segregated education unconstitutional in 1954, Prince Edward County's white community and political leaders stopped funding the public schools and sustained a "massively resistant" approach for five years--the only community in the nation to do so. R. R. Moton High School, courtesy of VCU Libraries, James Branch Cabell Library, Special Collections and Archives. efore a packed crowd of over 700 parents, teachers, and students, R. R. Moton High School alumnus Willie Shepperson revealed the high stakes involved with public school desegregation. At the April 28, 1969, Prince Edward County school board meeting, he outlined the county's troubling educational and racial history and assured school officials that "blacks, like whites, did

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Southern Cultures – University of North Carolina Press

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