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Author | : Robert Collins Smith |
Publisher | : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1965 |
Genre | : Education and state |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Tamara Pizzoli |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2022-01-11 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 9780063011168 |
Download When the Schools Shut Down Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An awe-inspiring autobiographical picture book about a young African American girl who lived during the shutdown of public schools in Farmville, Virginia, following the landmark civil rights case Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka. Most people think that the Brown vs. Board of Education decision of 1954 meant that schools were integrated with deliberate speed. But the children of Prince Edward County located in Farmville, Virginia, who were prohibited from attending formal schools for five years knew differently, including Yolanda. Told by Yolanda Gladden herself, cowritten by Dr. Tamara Pizzoli and with illustrations by Keisha Morris, When the Schools Shut Down is a true account of the unconstitutional effort by white lawmakers of this small Virginia town to circumvent racial justice by denying an entire generation of children an education. Most importantly, it is a story of how one community triumphed together, despite the shutdown.
Author | : Eve L. Ewing |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2020-02-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 022652616X |
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“Failing schools. Underprivileged schools. Just plain bad schools.” That’s how Eve L. Ewing opens Ghosts in the Schoolyard: describing Chicago Public Schools from the outside. The way politicians and pundits and parents of kids who attend other schools talk about them, with a mix of pity and contempt. But Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures—they’re an integral part of their neighborhoods, at the heart of their communities, storehouses of history and memory that bring people together. Never was that role more apparent than in 2013 when Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced an unprecedented wave of school closings. Pitched simultaneously as a solution to a budget problem, a response to declining enrollments, and a chance to purge bad schools that were dragging down the whole system, the plan was met with a roar of protest from parents, students, and teachers. But if these schools were so bad, why did people care so much about keeping them open, to the point that some would even go on a hunger strike? Ewing’s answer begins with a story of systemic racism, inequality, bad faith, and distrust that stretches deep into Chicago history. Rooting her exploration in the historic African American neighborhood of Bronzeville, Ewing reveals that this issue is about much more than just schools. Black communities see the closing of their schools—schools that are certainly less than perfect but that are theirs—as one more in a long line of racist policies. The fight to keep them open is yet another front in the ongoing struggle of black people in America to build successful lives and achieve true self-determination.
Author | : Bob Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780807840047 |
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Author | : Kristen Green |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-06-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0062268694 |
Download Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Combining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate. In the wake of the Supreme Court’s unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Virginia’s Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The community’s white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use in their all-white classrooms. Meanwhile, black parents had few options: keep their kids at home, move across county lines, or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years, the schools remained closed. Kristen Green, a longtime newspaper reporter, grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, which did not admit black students until 1986. In her journey to uncover what happened in her hometown before she was born, Green tells the stories of families divided by the school closures and of 1,700 black children denied an education. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation’s past, her own family’s role—no less complex and painful—comes to light. At once gripping, enlightening, and deeply moving, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County is a dramatic chronicle that explores our troubled racial past and its reverberations today, and a timeless story about compassion, forgiveness, and the meaning of home.
Author | : Henry Clay Brubaker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Perfection Learning Corporation |
Publisher | : Turtleback |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781663608192 |
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Author | : Thomas Henry Burrowes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1226 |
Release | : 1872 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
Download The Pennsylvania School Journal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 1881 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : New York (State). Legislature. Senate |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1470 |
Release | : 1896 |
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ISBN | : |
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