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Segregation in education -- History -- Virginia -- Prince Edward County

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Edward H. Peeples, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: M 342
Scope and Contents Please note: this collection contains materials that use insensitive or offensive language. To represent the resource as accurately as possible, the staff has transcribed the titles exactly as they appear on the archival material or objects.The Papers of Dr. Edward J. Peeples document his long career in education and public health and his activities as a promoter of social justice and human rights reforms in Virginia and other places across the South. The collection is especially...
Dates: 1915, 1920-2005

Edward H. Peeples, Jr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: M 68
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of materials collected by Dr. Peeples in the field of hunger, poverty, and racial issues in the United States and abroad. There is considerable information on the fight for integration in Virginia in the 1960s. It includes his thesis on the Prince Edward County school issue in the late 1950s and early 1960s as well as many newspaper articles that document that period. A large portion of this collection is made up of numerous types of publications.

Dates: 1910, 1943-1994; Majority of material found within 1943 - 1994