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Turner, Kara Miles – Journal of Negro Education, 2003
Describes the historical efforts of economically, politically, and socially oppressed black communities across the segregated U.S. south to give their children a quality education, highlighting rural Prince Edward County, Virginia. In an attempt to circumvent Brown v. Board of Education (1954), white leaders closed every public school in the…
Descriptors: Black Students, Civil Rights, Elementary Secondary Education, Equal Education