"A Perspective of the Prince Edward County School Issue" -- Online version of a Master's Thesis by Edward H. Peeples, Jr., University of Pennsylvania, 1963. The online version is maintained by the Univ. of Penn. Library. Hard copies of this thesis are housed in Special Collections and Archives as well as in the regular stacks of the James Branch Cabell Library. Other libraries also house this thesis including the library at Longwood College in Farmville, Virginia; the library at University of Pennsylvania, the Virginia Historical Society, and the Wilder Library at Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia.

"Prince Edward County: The Story Without An End" -- A report prepared for U.S. Commission on Civil Rights by Edward H. Peeples, Jr., July 1963. Based on interviews and other research done for Peeples' Masters Thesis, as well as further interviews and research conducted immediately after the thesis was written. Commissioned by the Virginia Advisory Committee to U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The links below concern the report.

Special Note to the Contemporary Reader concerning The Tragedy of Closed Public Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia: A Report for the Virginia Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights.

The Tragedy of Closed Public Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia: A Report for the Virginia Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights -- a PDF file of the report.

Postcript by the Editor concerning the report above.

The Study of County Decision-Makers, Prince Edward County, Virginia -- Conducted in 1963 by Dr. Peeples -- the objectives in this study of Prince Edward County was that of discovering information about the system of decision-making which led to school closing and the continued abandonment of public education in the county.

"In Genuinely Democratic Service, the Servant is Well Served" by Edward H. Peeples, Jr. In this essay, based on notes written in September 1961 and revised March 2001, Peeples discusses what became to be known as the Richmond Committee of Volunteers to Prince Edward County -- a group of volunteers from central Virginia who helped organize recreational activities for the African American students in Prince Edward County.

"Prince Edward County, Virginia" by J. Rupert Picott and Edward H. Peeples, Jr. , published in Phi Delta Kappan in May 1964.

"Material Opportunities in Public Education in the Commonwealth of Virginia: A Study of Public School Property Differentials Between the Races (1962-1963)" -- Data collected in 1964 by Edward H. Peeples, Jr., B.S., M.A., University of Kentucky, 1965. This study was financed by the Virginia Teachers Association.

"13 Known Private Schools in Virginia Established Since 1958 to Circumvent Desegregation." Two page document prepared January 1965 by Edward Peeples, Instructor in Sociology, Medical College of Virginia.

"Making Heroes of Those of Lesser Sin" by Edward H. Peeples, Jr. This was an editorial written in 1979 about the political leaders of Virginia during the days of Massive Resistance. It was sent by Peeples to the Richmond Times-Dispatch which choose not to publish it.

A Message About Reverend L. Francis Griffin by Dr. Edward H. Peeples, April 23, 2001