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 t
our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. he a proud graduate of longwood university. you were one of the first male graduates of longwood. chris has had a long career with the national park service. he worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. in 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. it is only 15 minutes from here. he has done an amazing job in revising sailor s creek. as a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. he is responsible for the retreat route. he is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting a large amount of land for petersburg battlefield. received an award for marriage in 2015. for merit in 2015. numerous books on sailor creek and appomattox. also a
maneuvers of the union and confederate armies that brought them to appomattox. thank you, patrick. our final speaker tonight is christopher calkins. he a proud graduate of longwood university. longwood college when he went here. you were one of the first male graduates of longwood. chris has had a long career with the national park service. he worked at appomattox, spotsylvania, and was chief of interpretation at petersburg for many years. in 2008 he took over the position of park manager for battlefield state park. it is only 15 minutes from here. he has done an amazing job in revising sailor s creek. revitalizing sailor s creek. as a mentioned in the beginning he will be available tomorrow for some tors of their cash for some tors out there for some tours out there. he is responsible for the retreat route. he is actively involved in battlefield preservation, the association of preservation for civil war sites, particularly building up petersburg in the past getting
anyway, that was after reading to appomattox, the only book we had to learn from. i was trying to figure out how the armies actually got around from sailor s creek in this area where most of the heavy fighting takes place. i remember the editor of the farmville herald some historian asked him how the troops got from highbridge to farmville they were wanting to know. i remember he said it would take a philadelphia lawyer to figure out how the armies got through this area. i m not from philadelphia but i think i ve figured it out. would you speak on major henry young? chris: henry young was in the second rhode island infantry. another thing the union cavalry used on this campaign and tracy ably talked about what the union cavalry was at this point of the war, they wore confederate uniforms and took the persona of i think they took the ninth virginia cavalry, fake southern accents, and what they would do is they would ride into the confederate line of march. they would tell
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