Key People
Prince Edward County
Important Cases
Random
100
Who led walkout at Moton High School?
Barbara Johns
100
What prominent HS is located here that plays a major role in desegregation?
Robert R. Moton High School
100
What court case was filed in US District Court in Topeka, Kansas?
Brown v. Board of Education
100
Name 3 states who endorsed the Southern Manifesto?
AL, AR, GA, LA, MS, SC, & VA
200
Who was the first African American to attend law school in VA?
Gregory Swanson
200
True/False: Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors vote to not fund public schools in the fall of 1959.
True.
200
Brown v. Board of Education rules that racial segregation of schools violates which amendment?
14th amendment
200
What HS closed because of imminent desegregation?
Warren County High School
300
Who vowed to keep segregation alive in education in 1954?
Gov. Thomas Stanley
300
In 1964, the Supreme Court ordered Prince Edward County to?
Reopen and segregate
300
What case ruled that segregation of bus station waiting rooms was illegal?
Boynton v. Virginia
300
What is the Massive Resistance law?
Provides tuition grants for students to attend private schools
400
Who says he will close any VA school that desegregates?
Gov. Lindsay Almond
400
What opened in 1963 in Prince Edward County?
Privately funded free schools for blacks
400
In 1955, what did the VA Governor and the Board of Education decide?
They decided to continue segregated schools into 1956.
400
What are the 2 additional schools that Gov. Almond closed?
Norfolk and Charlottesville
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