Look for these titles and bookstores this coming week and watch for men at the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. Continue our look at richmond. This isnt the city is famed monument avenue with statues honoring confederate war heroes including robert e lee, thomas Stonewall Jackson and jefferson davis. In 1996 africanamerican tennis star and richmond native arthur ashe was added to the collection. Conversations about monument avenue and which statutes should be added, changed or removed continue today. Up next we speak with kristen green on trying to desegregate Greene County Prince Edward kennett virginia. I think people believe that as soon as the decision was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1954 that it was immediately implemented and that also is not true. What i learned working on research for the book was that since Edward County that are literally affected by the brown v. Board of education decision
Look for these titles and bookstores this coming week and watch for men at the authors in the near future on booktv on cspan2. Continue our look at richmond. This isnt the city is famed monument avenue with statues honoring confederate war heroes including robert e lee, thomas Stonewall Jackson and jefferson davis. In 1996 africanamerican tennis star and richmond native arthur ashe was added to the collection. Conversations about monument avenue and which statutes should be added, changed or removed continue today. Up next we speak with kristen green on trying to desegregate Greene County Prince Edward kennett virginia. I think people believe that as soon as the decision was handed down by the Supreme Court in 1954 that it was immediately implemented and that also is not true. What i learned working on research for the book was that since Edward County that are literally affected by the brown v. Board of education decision
Five cases that was rolled into an umbrella brown case. The reason that Prince Edward was part of the brown v. Board of education decision was a young woman named barbara, a high school junior, lead and walk out to protest the conditions of her school. That walkout attracted the attention of naacp attorneys in richmond, and they agreed to come meet with the Barbara Johns and her fellow students and their parents. But that decision led the naacp to take up the pace case of a lawsuit on behalf of the students and that eventually made all the way to the Supreme Court as part of brown v. Board of education and it was the only student led case out of the five. County leaders of their were so stunned by the decision as were virginia leaders and leaders across the south and the country. But i think Prince Edward county leaders felt particularly embarrassed and particularly nervous that they would be held up as an example and forced to integrate the four before commuters across the nation. The