Separate But Not Equal
VCU Libraries is proud to present Separate But Not Equal: Race, Education and Prince Edward County, Virginia. This online exhibit features 125 original photographs of white and black schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia taken by Dr. Edward H. Peeples in 1962. Dr. Peeples, VCU professor emeritus, took these photographs of schools which the county claimed represented equal education opportunities for white and black students. Prince Edward County closed their public schools from 1959-1964 in lieu of allowing them to be desegregated, partially funding a "private" school for white children during that period.
--Curtis Lyons, Head, Special Collections and Archives.