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[PAST EVENT] The Lock-Out Generation: Children of Courage
November 4, 2012
2pm
When faced with the directive to integrate public schools in 1959, Prince Edward County chose instead to shut the doors of their schools to all children. For the next five years, the county's schools remained closed and their students struggled to find a way to receive the education they deserved.
Charles Taylor, Dorothy Holcomb and Edward Chappell will share their first-hand experiences, and will be joined on the panel by Justin Reid of the Moton Museum.
Due to the closing of Prince Edward County public schools, Taylor was sent to Kittrell Junior College in North Carolina to finish high school, along with 60 other students. Holcomb and her siblings pretended to live in a dilapidated house in neighboring Appomattox County to attend schools there. Chappell attended a segregation academy following the closing of Prince Edward County schools.
This event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Africana and American Studies programs, Department of History and Lemon Project. It is held in conjunction with the exhibit "The Virginia Way of Life Must Be Preserved," which is part of Swem Library's project, "From Fights to Right: The Long Road to a More Perfect Union."
Charles Taylor, Dorothy Holcomb and Edward Chappell will share their first-hand experiences, and will be joined on the panel by Justin Reid of the Moton Museum.
Due to the closing of Prince Edward County public schools, Taylor was sent to Kittrell Junior College in North Carolina to finish high school, along with 60 other students. Holcomb and her siblings pretended to live in a dilapidated house in neighboring Appomattox County to attend schools there. Chappell attended a segregation academy following the closing of Prince Edward County schools.
This event, which is free and open to the public, is co-sponsored by the Africana and American Studies programs, Department of History and Lemon Project. It is held in conjunction with the exhibit "The Virginia Way of Life Must Be Preserved," which is part of Swem Library's project, "From Fights to Right: The Long Road to a More Perfect Union."
Contact
Amy Schindler, 757-221-3094; acschi@wm.edu