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Research

 


In Print:

 

 

 

  • Allen Freeman, "Farmville: A Burden of History." Historic Preservation, January/February 1996, pp. 62-67.
    Good summary of the Moton School's history and the early days of the museum project; color photos.

 

  • Timothy M. Phelps, "A Model for the Nation: Virginia county has high-quality, integrated schools." New York Newsday, May 17, 1994, pp. A6, A17.
    An optimistic summary of Prince Edward County's public schools and racial situation on the fortieth anniversary of Brown.

 

  • Bob Smith, They Closed Their Schools: Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1951-1964. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1965; reprinted 1996, Farmville, Va., Martha E. Forrester Council of Women
    The definitive story of the struggle for desegregated public schools, 1950-1964.

 

  • "Prince Edward County: Revisited and Revitalized." Virginia Quarterly Review Vol. 73, No. 1 (Winter 1997), pp. 1-27.
    An optimistic updating of the Prince Edward County situation a third of a century after Smith's book.

 

  • Jennifer E. Spreng, "Scenes from the Southside: A Desegregation Drama in Five Acts." University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law Journal, Vol. 19 (1997), pp. 327-412.
    Thorough treatment of all the court cases, plus a good summary of changing community attitudes in the '70s, '80s, and '90s.

 

  • Lacy B. Ward, Jr., "The Robert Russa Moton Museum: A Center for the Study of Civil Rights in Education." Virginia Review, July/August 1996.
    A succinct overview of the history of the Moton School and the museum project.

 

 

Articles and Information about the Moton School
 

  • National Park Service: Moton School: Where "Separate But Equal" Was Not Enough


 

  • The Alicia Patterson Foundation: Integration's Victims


 

  • The Ground beneath Our Feet: Virginia's History Since the Civil War - PBS series featuring the Moton story in its third episode - "Massive Resistance"


 

  • Archives of the American Friends Service Committee- The AFSC helped to place children in northern schools so they could continue their education when the schools closed. (Note: The AFSC records are open to researchers only after the individual has completed an application form, which requests references and a writing sample.)


 

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


 

  • Smith, R. C.
    Prince Edward County: Revisited and Revitalized, The Virginia Quarterly Review A National Journal of Literature and Discussion, Volume 73, Number 1. Winter 1997.
    http://www.google.com/u/Longwood?q=moton+museum&sa=Search

 

  • Longwood University Library
    "They Closed Their Schools"--an era in the school history of Prince Edward County, Electronic texts and an extensive bibliography on the school closings in Prince Edward County.
    http://www.google.com/u/Longwood?q=moton+museum&sa=Search

 

  • Gloucester County History Page
    A website with a short biographical sketch of Robert R. Moton.
     

 

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