Selected Bibliography - Separate but Not Equal: Race, Education, and Prince Edward County Virginia.

Separate but Not Equal:
Race, Education, and
Prince Edward County, Virginia

Selected Bibliography

Introduction

Photographs of
Black and White
Schools, 1962

Documents

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Manuscript Collections

Helen Baker Papers, 1950-1967 -- Baker (1906-1966), was an African American Virginia educator and political and social activist involved in a number of causes, including the Prince Edward County School conflict, (1960-1963). In 1963, she organized the Metropolitan Washington Housing Project. A collection of photocopies of correspondence and papers related to her life are held in Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia. The originals are held at Special Collections/University Archives, Johnston Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia.

Edward H. Peeples, Jr. Papers, circa 1946-1990s. -- Collection includes Dr. Peeples' research materials for his thesis on the Prince Edward County, Virginia school segregation issue in the late 1950s and early 1960s; newspaper and journal articles and other published materials on race relations civil rights issues, and other related topics; photographs, correspondence, reports, and other materials documenting his scholarly pursuits for over three decades. Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia.

The Prince Edward County (Free School) Papers, 1962-1964. -- The papers contain correspondence, reports, photographs and other items which document the Free School for African American students. Special Collections/University Archives, Johnston Memorial Library, Virginia State University, Petersburg, Virginia.

Books

Bradshaw, Herbert Clarence, 1908-1976. History of Prince Edward County, Virginia, from its Earliest Settlements through its Establishment in 1754 to its Bicentennial Year. Richmond: Dietz Press, 1955.

Craver, Samuel M., ed. Black Richmonders' Experience with School Segregation and Desegregation: An Oral History of Education Project at Virginia Commonwealth University. Richmond, Virginia: Virginia Commonwealth University, 1993.

Burrell, Charles Edward. A History of Prince Edward County, Virginia, from its Formation in 1753, to the Present. Richmond, Virginia: The Williams Printing Co., 1922.

Casper, Dale E. Desegregation Policies and the Operation of Public Schools : A Checklist, 1982-1987. Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, 1987.

Dubois, William Edward Burghardt, Dan S. Green, and Edwin D. Driver (eds). "The Negroes of Farmville, Virginia", in Sociology of the Black Community. Chicago: University of Chicago, 1978.

Kramer, Edward G., ed. An Annotated Bibliography of Housing and School Segregation Articles and Documents with Additional Material for Research. Monticello, IL: Vance Bibliographies, 1980.

Foster, Gerald Anthony and Vonita White Foster. Silent Trumpets of Justice : Integration's Failure in Prince Edward County. Forward by L. Douglas Wilder. Hampton, Virginia: U.B. & U.S. Communication Systems, 1993.

Gates, Robbins L. The Making of Massive Resistance; Virginia's Politics of Public School Desegregation, 1954-1956. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1964.

Green, Robert Lee and others. The Educational Status of Children in a District Without Public Schools. East Lansing, Michigan: Bureau of Educational Research, College of Education, Michigan State University, 1964.

Holland, Robert G. The Story of the Prince Edward Free Schools. Farmville, Virginia: Prince Edward Free School Association, 1964.

Kilpatrick, James Jackson. The Southern Case for School Segregation. New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1962.

Kilpatrick, James Jackson. The Sovereign States: Notes of a Citizen of Virginia. Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1957.

Kluger, Richard. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's Struggle for Equality. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Lassiter, Matthew D., and Andrew B. Lewis. The Moderates' Dilemma: Massive Resistance to School Desegregation in Virginia. Charlottesville, Virginia: University Press of Virginia, 1998.

Muse, Benjamin. Virginia's Massive Resistance. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1961.

Segregation in Education, Law and Legislation: A Bibliography. Monticello, Ill: Vance Bibliographies, 1986.

Smith, James Wesley. The Strange Way of Truth. New York: Vantage Press, 1968.

Smith, Robert Collins. They Closed Their Schools; Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1951-1964. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: University of North Carolina Press, 1965.

Stokes, John A., Viola, Herman J., and Wolfe, Louis. A Student on Strike: Jim Crow, Civil Rights, Brown and Me: A Memoir. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic, 2008.

Steck, John Charles. The Prince Edward County, Virginia Story. Farmville, Virginia: The Farmville Herald, 1960.

Sullivan, Neil Vincent. Bound For Freedom: An Educator's Adventures in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965.

Today and Yesterday in the Heart of Virginia; A Reprint of the Edition of the Farmville Herald, March 29, 1935. Farmville, Virginia: Farmville Herald, 1935.

Williams, Juan. Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. New York: Viking, 1987.

Wolters, Raymond. The Burden of Brown: Thirty Years of School Desegregation. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984.

Periodicals

Baker, Donald P. "Integration's Victims: When Virginia Slammed the School Doors Shut." APF Reporter. 17:3 (1996): 45-50.

Baker, Donald P. "Shame of a Nation: The Lessons and Legacy of the Prince Edward School Closings." The Washington Post. (March 2001): W08-W17.

Banks, W. Lester. "Prince Edward County-The Shame of the Nation." Crisis. 69:5 (May 1962): 271-.

Brookover, Wilbur B. "Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1953-1993." Journal of Negro Education. 62:2 (Spring 1993): 149-161.

Brookover, Wilbur B., Arthur Dudley, and Robert L. Green "Prince Edward County, Virginia, 30 years After: "A Pretty Good Place to Live." Journal of Negro Education. 62:2 (Spring 1993): 162-172.

Callwood, June. "Eight Days Make a Miracle." McCall's (January 1964), 134-172.

Dierenfield, Kathleen Murphy. "One "Desegregated Heart": Sarah Patton Boyle and the Crusade for Civil Rights in Virginia." Virginia Magazine of History and Biography. 102:2 (Spring 1996): 251-284.

Dobie, Armistead M., Sterling Hutcheson, and Albert V. Bryan. "The Prince Edward County Virginia Case Decision." Journal of Negro Education. 21 (1952): 528-531.

Egerton, John. "'A Gentlemen's Fight' Nobody Was Murdered or Maimed, But Nobody Backed Down for Twenty Years in the Struggle Over School Integration in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Who Finally Won?" American Heritage. 30:5 (August/September 1979): 56-65.

Freeman, Allen. "Farmville: A Burden of History." Historic Preservation, January/February 1996, 62-67.

Green, Robert L. And Robert F. Morgan. "The Effects of Resumed Schooling on the Measured Intelligence of Prince Edward County's Black Children." Journal of Negro Education. 38:2 (Spring 1969): 147-.

Hale-Smith, M. E. "The Effect of Early Educational Disruption on the Belief Systems and Educational Practices of Adults." Journal of Negro Education. 62:2 (Spring 1993): 171-189.

Hart, Scott. "The True Story of Prince Edward County." The Washington World. 4:23 (July 20, 1964): 2, 32-33.

Heuvel, William Vanden and Neil V. Sullivan. "The Prince Edward County Situation" NEA Journal. 53:2 (March 1964): 12-15.

Hurtle, Beth. "Freeing One's Self, Respecting Each Other." Virginia Journal of Education. 68:6 (February 1975): 12-18.

Morrow, Lance. "Prince Edward and the Past: Massive Resistance Has Faded, But Something Hidden Remains." Time. 134:21 (November 20, 1989): 58.

Ortner, D. R. "Farmville Revisited." Negro Educational Review. 25 (1964): 51-62.

Phelps, Timothy M. "A Model for the Nation: Virginia County has High-Quality, Integrated Schools." New York Newsday. May 17, 1994, A6, A17.

Picott, J. Rupert and Edward Harden Peeples, Jr. "Prince Edward County, Virginia." Phi Delta Kappan 45:8 (May 1964): 393-397.

Pine, Patricia. "You Can See the Change in Prince Edward." American Education. v.6:6 (1970): 24-28.

Rice, Carolyn. "Prince Edward County: New Mood in the Public Schools." Virginia Journal of Education. 63:5. (January 1970): 18-20.

Rorty, James. "Desegregation: Prince Edward County, VA." Commentary: A Jewish Review. 21 (1956): 431-.

Schuler, Edgar A. And Green, Robert L. "A Southern Educator and School Integration: An Interview." Phylon. 28:1 (1967): 28-40.

Shade, William G. "Society and Politics in Antebellum Virginia's Southside." Journal of Southern History. 53 (May 1987): 163-

Simsarian, Frances P. "Twenty-five Foster Placements: The Prince Edward County Children." Social Work. 11:1 (January 1966): 88-97.

Smith, R. C. "Prince Edward County: Revisited and Revitalized." The Virginia Quarterly Review. 73:1 (Winter 1997): 1-27.

Spreng, Jennifer E. "Scenes from the Southside: A Desegregation Drama in Five Acts." University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Review. 19:3 (1997): 327-412.

Sullivan, Neil V. "Making History in Prince Edward County." Saturday Review. (October 17, 1964): 59-73.

Terjen, Kitty. "Cradle of Resistance: Prince Edward County Today." New South. 28:3 (1973): 18-27.

Viadero, Debra. "At the Crossroads." Education Week. 18:28 (March 24, 1999): 38-45

Wallenstein, Peter. "Civil Rights and the Courts: A Band of Brothers and The Siege Against Segregation." Virginia Social Science Journal. 32 (1997).

Ward, Lacy B., Jr., "The Robert Russa Moton Museum: A Center for the Study of Civil Rights in Education." Virginia Review, July/August 1996.

Master's Thesis and Dissertations

Hale-Smith, Margaret Elizabeth. "The Effect of Early Educational Disruption of the Belief Systems and Education Practices of Adults." Dissertation, Michigan State University, 1992. [This study focuses on the effects of the five year Prince Edward County, Virginia, on African American students who were of school age during that time.]

Hohl, Lisa Anne, "Open the Doors: An Analysis of the Prince Edward County, Virginia, Free School Association." Thesis, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia, 1993.

Madison, Sybil Michelle. "And Still They Rise: Factors Related to the Resilience in African-American Students Affected by the Prince Edward County School Closing." Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley, 1988

Modlin, Carolyn Carter. "The Desegregation of Southhampton County, Virginia Schools, 1954-1970." Dissertation, Virginia Poytechnic Institute and State University, 1998.

Peeples, Jr., Edward Harden. " Perspective of the Prince Edward County School Issue." Thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1963.

Pratt, Robert Antonio. "School Desegregation in Richmond, Virginia, 1954-1984: A Study of Race and Class in a Southern City." Dissertation, University of Virginia, 1987.

Weigand, James Moorman. "The Origin of Integration in Virginia's Public Schools: A Narrative History from 1951 to 1959." Thesis, University of Richmond, 1991.

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