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The following are a selection of links to web sites pertaining to the Prince Edward County, Virginia public schools history:

Frontiers in Civil Rights - Dorothy E. Davis, et al. versus County School Board of Prince Edward County, Virginia: National Archives and Records Administration Digital Classroom – Teaching with Documents. Text and photographs from the Prince Eward County schools court case that became an integral part of Brown v. Board of Education. Go to site >>

Separate but Not Equal: Race, Education, and Prince Edward County, Virginia Online exhibit of documents and photographs by Edward H. Peeples, bibliography, and links to other sites about the Prince Edward County school issue. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. Go to site >>

American Friends Service Committee Archive on the Prince Edward County, Virginia School Closing Issue The American Friends Service Committee archive staff have created an online Index to the Special Collection on AFSC Work in the Prince Edward County, Virginia School Closing Issue. The Index is designed to introduce to researchers and others the important record of AFSC's work in a significant but little-known piece of American history. Go to site >>

They Closed Their Schools – an era in the School History of Prince Edward County, Virginia": Online resource bibliography on the Prince Edward County school issue, including references to books and articles and viewable documents, websites, and search aids. Longwood University Library, Farmville, Virginia. Go to site >>

The Robert Russa Moton Museum: A Center For the Study of Civil Rights in Virginia The museum is located in the school where Prince Edward County students organized their protest against their inferior schools in April 1951. The museum is "committed to the preservation and positive interpretation of the history of civil rights in education, specifically as it relates to Prince Edward County and the role its citizens played in America's struggle to move from a segregated to an integrated society." The site includes a detailed history of the struggle for equality by African Americans in Prince Edward County; information about museum sponsored events, exhibits, and news; links to other sites; and a bibliography. Go to site >>

Robert Russa Moton High School: One site in a series entitled "We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement", sponsored by the U.S. Department of Interior and other federal agencies. Includes an image of the school and a very brief history of the school and its role in the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Go to site >>

Moton School: A National Historic Landmark Ending the ‘Separate But Equal' Doctrine- Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement: Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Interior. Includes an abbreviated history of the school, the story of Barbara John's leadership in the 1951 student strike, and the role of the school in the Brown v Board of Education Supreme Court decision. Go to site >>

"Civil Rights and the Courts: A Band of Brothers and The Siege Against Segregation": Online version of an article on the legal struggle against segregation in Virginia written by Peter Wallenstein, Associate Professor of History at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia. The article first appeared in the Virginia Social Science Journal, 1997, Vol. 32. Go to site >>

Virginia House Joint Resolution No. 613: Expressing the General Assembly's profound regret over the 1959-64 closing of the public schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia Go to site >>

The following links are a selection of major web sites pertaining to the history of Brown v. Board of Education:

Brown V. Board Anniversary CommissionUS Department of Education: Brown v. Board of Education 50th Anniversary Commission Go to site >>

National Park Service: Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site Go to site >>

Brown v. Board of Education/Brown Foundation For Educational Equity, Excellence and Research Go to site >>

National Education Association: Celebrating 50 Years of Brown v. Board of Education, May 17, 1954-2004 Go to site >>

American Federation of Teachers:  Bringing Brown v. Board of Education into the Classroom Go to site >>

NAACP Legal Defense Fund: Brown v. Board of Education Matters To All Americans Go to site >>

American Bar Association, Division for Public Education: Dialogue on Brown v. Board of Education Go to site >>

National Public Radio: The Supreme Court and 'Brown v. Board of Ed.' Go to site >>

California Newsreel: The Road To Brown Go to site >>

African-American History: Brown v. Board of Education Go to site >>

Harvard University, The Civil Rights Project: School Desegregation Go to site >>

Howard University School of Law: Brown@50, Fulfilling the Promise Go to site >>

University of South Carolina Institute for Public Service and Policy Research: Brown v. Board of Education Go to site >>

University of Michigan: Brown v. Board of Education Commemoration, 1954-2004 Go to site >>

Seattle University Law School: Brown v. Board of Education: A 50th Anniversary Exhibit Go to site >>