LibGuides: DOVE: Resources for Further Study: Region 2. Southside

Introduction to Region 2

The Southside region of Virginia
includes the following cities:

Counties in this region include:

Bonastia, Christopher. Southern Stalemate: Five Years without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Campbell, Ernest Queener. 1960. When a city closes its schools. Chapel Hill: Institute for Research in Social Science, University of North Carolina. (LA381.N8.C3)
Leidholdt, Alexander. 1997. Standing before the shouting mob: Lenoir Chambers and Virginia's massive resistance to public-school integration. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press. (LC214.22.V8L45 1997)
Peltason, J. W. 1961. Fifty-eight lonely men: Southern Federal judges and school desegregation. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World. (KF4155.P4)

June-Friesen, Katy. 2013. Massive Resistance in a Small Town: Before and after Brown in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Humanities 34, no. 5.
Parkinson, Robert G. 2004. First from the right: Massive resistance and the image of Thomas Jefferson in the 1950s. Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 112, no. 1: 2-35.
Robinson, William H. 1959. Integration's delay and frustration tolerance. Journal of Negro Education 28, no. 4: 472-475.
Virginia's 'massive resistance' laws declared unconstitutional. 1959. Journal of Negro Education 28, no. 2: 163-172.

Burnette, Ann Elizabeth. 1996. A lost cause revisited: Virginia's massive resistance, 1954-1962. Ph.D., Northwestern University. (ILL)
Hershman, James Howard Jr. 1978. A rumbling in the museum: The opponents of Virginia's massive resistance. Ph.D., University of Virginia. (ILL)
Modlin, Carolyn Carter. "The Desegregation of Southhampton County, Virginia Schools, 1954-1970." Ed.D., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1998.

Moton Museum Web site
The Closing of Prince Edward County's Schools. Virginia Historical Society.
Farmville 1963 Civil Rights Protests -- This collection of 491 images dates primarily from the summer of 1963, when the demand for equality and for an end to racial segregation brought a series of protests to Farmville, Virginia, the county seat of Prince Edward County.

Prince Edward County - During the Civil Rights Era. Longwood University guide which includes several resources for further study.