Locked Out: Finding freedom and education after Prince Edward County closed its schools AUTH-2774647 ISBN13: 9780316065993

ISBN13: 9780316065993

a mid-test

and Bostwick proves she is up to the

It's a fact of life: our health declines if we don't nourish our bodies every day with food and water

Locked Out: Finding freedom and education after Prince Edward County closed its schools AUTH-2774647 ISBN13: 9780316065993From 1959 1964, Prince Edward County, Virginia, closed its public schools rather than desegregate them, as ordered by the Supreme Court in the 1954 Brown v Board of Education decision. Alfred L. Cobbs, a rising tenth grader at the time, was one of the causalities among the African American students of the "locked out" generation. In Locked Out, Cobbs chronicles his struggle for an education in the face of this traumatic experience. With the support of