Description Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" to the U.
S.
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The school system remained closed until the fall of 1964, when the County was forced by federal courts to comply with the school integration ordered by Brown.
The editorial pages of the local family-owned newspaper, The Farmville Herald, led the fight to lock classrooms rather than integrate them.
Board decision of 1954.
Supreme Court\'s historic Brown v.
Description Prince Edward County, Virginia closed its public school system in 1959 in "massive resistance" to the U.
S