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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERCombining hard-hitting investigative journalism and a sweeping family narrative, this provocative true story reveals a little-known chapter of American history: the period after the Brown v. Board of Education decision when one Virginia school system refused to integrate.In the wake of the Supreme Court’s unanimous Brown v. Board of Education decision, Virginia’s Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools, locking and chaining the doors. The community’s white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public schools to use in their all-white classrooms. Meanwhile, black parents had few options: keep their kids at home, move across county lines, or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years, the schools remained closed.Kristen Green, a longtime newspaper reporter, grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, which did not admit black students until 1986. In her journey to uncover what happened in her hometown before she was born, Green tells the stories of families divided by the school closures and of 1,700 black children denied an education. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation’s past, her own family’s role—no less complex and painful—comes to light.At once gripping, enlightening, and deeply moving, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County is a dramatic chronicle that explores our troubled racial past and its reverberations today, and a timeless story about compassion, forgiveness, and the meaning of home.

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I have mixed feelings on this one. While I'm giving it 4 stars, this is namely due to the fact that the story of Prince Edward County is riveting. It's absolutely a piece of history I'm glad to have learned about. The characters felt very real... And for the most part, the author captures them & the own itself in such a way that as a reader, I can visualize the whole thing.What ultimately detracted from the historical aspect was the author herself. For someone who learned quite late in life about how large a world there is outside her small town, I found her self-reflection & judgment on her family, former friends, neighbors, etc. to seem incredibly pompous. Perhaps it's just me, but when she interviews a teacher who discusses the struggles of teaching in buildings never intended for school & doing so with with meger resources, the author is quick to brush her off narrating that the 'real' suffering was the 6 year old who didn't get to go to school. In hearing the story, I personally want to hear from all involved. For better or worse, it's history. While there was certainly a great injustice to the black residents of Farmville, it became difficult to listen to the author's so-called 'white guilt' & her own steady stream of judgments as she continues on about how different & enlightened she is.As she states, 'nice doesn't mean good.' I would argue that given the culture in the south at that time, there are people with good intentions who do things that ultimately cost us dearly. I don't see these people as evil—I see them as tragically uneducated & in some cases, simply a reflection of the era in which they grew up & a culture they never left.I highly recommend this book as a whole. The author & her narrative were too much for mr by the time I was 1/2 way through, but as I said above, this is a piece of history that should have its voice heard.

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