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Author Woodley, Ken.

Title The road to healing : a civil rights reparations story in Prince Edward County, Virginia / Ken Woodley.

Publication Info. Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource
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Contents Intro; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Prologue; 1. 'God, Please Help Us. We Are Your Children, Too'; 2. The 'Civil War' After the Civil War; 3. The Click of Cosmic Tumblers; 4. Balm for Gilead; 5. 'I'll Fight With You on This'; 6. Into the Sausage Grinder; 7. Destroy the Headline to Save It?; 8. Wings For a Prayer; 9. The Eye of the Storm; 10. Bound for Civil Rights History; 11. The Promised Land; 12. We Gathered Our Light; 13. Reparation Within the Sorrow; 14. 'For All Wounds Known and Unknown'; Epilogue: Will We Live Happily Ever After?
Summary Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" to the U.S. Supreme Court's historic Brown v. Board decision of 1954. The editorial pages of the local family-owned newspaper, The Farmville Herald, led the fight to lock classrooms rather than integrate them. The school system remained closed until the fall of 1964, when the County was forced by federal courts to comply with the school integration ordered by Brown. The vast majority of white children had continued their education in a private, whites-only academy. But more than 2,000 black students were left without a formal education by the five-year closure. Their lives were forever changed. A Civil Rights Reparations Story: The Road to Healing in Prince Edward County, Virginia, by Ken Woodley, is his first-person account of the steps taken in recent years to redress the wound. The book's centerpiece is the 18-month fight to create what legendary civil rights activist Julian Bond told the author would become the first Civil Rights-era reparation in United States history; it was led by Woodley, then editor of The Farmville Herald, still owned by the original family. If the 2003-04 struggle to win passage of a state-funded scholarship program for the casualties of massive resistance had been a roller coaster, it wouldn't have passed the safety inspection for reasons of too many unsafe political twists and turns. But it did.The narrative unfolds in Virginia, but it is a deeply American story. Prince Edward County's ongoing journey of racial reconciliation blazes a hopeful and redemptive trail through difficult human terrain, but the signs are clear enough for a divided nation to follow. The history is as important for its insights about the past as it it about what it has to share about a way into our future.
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Subject School integration -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
School integration.
Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Public schools -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Public schools.
Racism in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Racism in education.
Segregation in education -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
Segregation in education.
African Americans -- Reparations -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County.
African Americans -- Reparations.
Reparations for historical injustices -- United States.
Reparations for historical injustices.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Woodley, Ken. Road to healing. Montgomery, AL : NewSouth Books, [2019] 9781588383549 (DLC) 2018051191
ISBN 1588383555
9781588383556 (electronic book)
9781588383549 (hardcover)
Music No. EB00773878 Recorded Books