1. Civil Rights In Prince Edward County
By: Brandy Hogan

2. Moton The Moton school was the black school.
The had the used books of the white students when the whites got newer versions of the book.
The blacks got what the whites did not want anymore.

3. Moton Moton was built in 1939. It is a one story building.
It had eight classrooms, an office, and an auditorium.
The school had double the students that is was allowed to handle.
It had no lunch room or gym for the students.

4. Barbara Johns
She led the strike in Prince Edward to end separate but equal.
She was only 16 years old at the time.
She was a Junior at Moton.

5. NAACP
The NAACP got the parents involved and they got a court case started.
The lost the first court case but a year after that they won in the Supreme Court.

6. Massive Resistance
Prince Edward County closed its schools from
Prince Edward closed its doors because they didn’t want to desegregate its schools.
They were the only county in the country to close its doors for an extended amount of time.

7. Prince Edward Academy
When Prince Edward County Public Schools closed whites couldn’t go to school either unless they moved.
The churches in the area started to have school classes in the Sunday school rooms.
Later Prince Edward Academy was opened for the white children.
The black children could not afford to go to the Private school so they would have to move and get their education somewhere else.

8. Understanding why the schools closed
Prince Edward is part of the “Black Belt”.
The “Black Belt” is a belt that goes form the top of the Chesapeake Bay down all the way to Georgia.
In this “Black Belt” the population is 1/3 or more.

9. Population
The population of the blacks before for the schools closed was 39.9%.
After the schools closed the population when down by almost 10%.
1,277 people left.

10. Black schools The Moton school was very crowed.
The teachers didn’t have a lot of good supplies to teach the kids with.
They didn’t have good books and the grades were all missed together.

11. White school The white school had new books they had new everything.
The whites got everything they needed to become successful in their life.

12. 1953 A new black school was being built.
They were trying to build a equal school for the blacks but by that time Prince Edward was too late.

13. 1954
The supreme court said that Separate but equal is unconstitutional.
The schools still did not desegregate.

14. Prince Edward
Prince Edward County did everything in its power to not let blacks go to school with whites.
A 3 judge court told Prince Edward directly that it had to desegregate but it did not give a date to when this had to be done.

15. A petition to the Board of Supervisors
In the meanwhile, whites in Prince Edward presented at a meeting of the board of supervisors on May 3, 1956, a petition of intent signed by 4,184 persons. The petition stated: “We, the undersigned citizens of Prince Edward County, Virginia, hereby affirm our conviction that the separation of the races in the public schools of this county is absolutely necessary and to affirm that we prefer to abandon public schools and educate our children in some other way if that be necessary to preserve separation of the races in this county. We pledge our support to the Board of Supervisors of Prince Edward County and their firm maintenance of this policy." Later, on May 31, the Board of Supervisors again approved "heretofore'' operation of public schools for the school year.

16. Supreme Court
The Supreme Court said it would hear Prince Edwards case on March 30, 1964.
The Supreme Court said that it was taking this action without waiting for another ruling by the Circuit Court "in view of the long delay in the case... and the importance of the questions presented.”30 Among the questions on which the court is expected to rule are: Is the closing of public schools in Prince Edward County Prince Edward County while they are maintained elsewhere in Virginia a violation of the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment? Can a locality constitutionally close its public schools to avoid desegregation and then grant money from county and state funds to children attending a private school which practices racial segregation?

17. Private schools started to open
PEA was created and all the students that went to the churches for schooling.
If the white parents wanted their kids to have a education they would have to pay.
They opened private school so that the government couldn’t put its hands in the school and tell it what to do.

18. Finally..
The county finally gave up. They opened the public county school system back up.
The blacks and whites were finally going to school together.

19. PEA or Fuqua Today this school still has racism in the school.
Those students do not get along with the public school students.
They think that we are not as good as them and that our education sucks.
They also hate that we are friends with the black people too.
A couple of my white and black friends have been threated by the Fuqua students.

20. Thank you
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