In Print:

• Donald P. Baker, "Closed." The Washington Post Magazine, March 4, 2001, pp. 8-13, 21-26.
  An extensive if somewhat dark view of the Prince Edward story from the 1940s until the present.
  
  

• 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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