Prince Edward County, Virginia School Closing
A Compilation of Research Studies
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The Prince Edward County, Virginia School Closing: A Compilation of Research Studies provides readers with a series of qualitative methodology approaches and topics. The collection of studies in this book contributes greatly to the research literature surrounding the school closing and examine topics such as (1) restorative justice, (2) massive resistance, (3) role of memory/racial healing, (4) the Civil Rights Movement, (5) socialization, (6) addressing silence, and (7) the importance of place.
Foreword; Robert L. Green
- Chapter 1. The Potential of Government-Sponsored Restorative Justice: A US Case Study of the Brown Scholarship Fund; Linda J. Mann
- Chapter 2. Prince Edward County’s Role in Brown v. Board of Education and the Birth of Massive Resistance; Emily Martin Cochran
- Chapter 3. Remembering the Past, Looking Toward the Future: The Role of Memory and Racial Healing in the Preservation of R. R. Moton High; Dwana Waugh
- Chapter 4. The Power of the Primary Source: Using a Case Study of Prince Edward County, Virginia (1951–1964), to Teach the Civil Rights Movement; Caitlin B. Maloney
- Chapter 5. A Case Study of Black Students’ Education and Socialization Since Public School Closure in Prince Edward County, Virginia; Jeffrey Carlton Scales
- Chapter 6. Addressing Silence: Oral History as a Tool to Teach Difficult History; Rory Dunn
- Chapter 7. School Has a “Place” . . . Every Place Except Farmville, Prince Edward County, Virginia; Alicia Pennington
Dr. Terence Hicks is a 2024 Legacy Award recipient, an accomplished award-winning author, an award-winning university dean, and an award-winning social scientist who has served as an academic dean in Texas and Tennessee. Currently, Dr. Hicks is serving as a tenured full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University. He has published 11 books on the college student population and over 100 combined research publications/presentations.