Matthew Van Meter
Author of Deep Delta Justice: A Black Teen, His Lawyer, and Their Groundbreaking Battle for Civil Rights in the South
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"...Prince Edward county, Virginia, which was one of the school districts lumped in with Brown v Board of Education, gave up on public education all together. Shortly after Brown was decided, several all white private schools were opened by a nonprofit organization that was essentially a branch of the government. Once every white child had a guaranteed spot at a private school, the county simply cut all funding to its public schools. Eventually the Supreme Court ordered the public schools reopened, but for five years there were no schools at all for black residents of Prince Edward. But even when the public schools reopened, few whites attended and the county was nearly as segregated as it had been before Brown. White kids studied in "academies" while black kids languished in underfunded public schools."… (more)