{"product_id":"browns-battleground-jill-ogline-titus-9781469619071","title":"Brown's Battleground: Students, Segregationists, and the Struggle for Justice in Prince Edward County, Virginia","description":"When the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its decision in \u003ci\u003eBrown v. Board of Education\u003c\/i\u003e in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e, abolished its public school system rather than integrate. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by \u003ci\u003eBrown\u003c\/i\u003e and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation. While school districts across the South temporarily closed a building here or there to block a specific desegregation order, only in Prince Edward did local authorities abandon public education entirely--and with every intention of permanence. When the public schools finally reopened after five years of struggle--under direct order of the Supreme Court--county authorities employed every weapon in their arsenal to ensure that the newly reopened system remained segregated, impoverished, and academically substandard. Intertwining educational and children's history with the history of the black freedom struggle, Titus draws on little-known archival sources and new interviews to reveal the ways that ordinary people, black and white, battled, and continue to battle, over the role of public education in the United States. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jill Ogline Titus\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1469619075\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781469619071\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of North Carolina Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.67d","brand":"Jill Ogline Titus","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43935448596735,"sku":"9781469619071","price":32.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_f1169742-166c-4952-a3a1-7a697c12652f.jpg?v=1681419859","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/browns-battleground-jill-ogline-titus-9781469619071","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}