Segregation & public facilities
Prince Edward County closes its schools
Schools closed September 1959, reopened September 1964Prince Edward County public schools, Farmville, VA
Rather than integrate after Brown, Prince Edward County shut every public school for five years. White children were given tuition grants for a private academy; about 1,700 Black children had no school at all.
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