We Are Your Children Too: Black Students, White Supremacists, and the Battle for America's Schools in Prince Edward County, Virginia

the story of a group of young Black Americans (led by Barbara Johns, whose statue now stands in the US Capitol) who stood up for their right to an education, thus triggering a firestorm of White supremacist reaction, a landmark Supreme Court ruling, the inception of massive resistance, and five years of school closings that denied any education at all to the next generation of Prince Edward County’s Black and some White children. They remained and remain resilient, determined, and inspiring