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School Desegregation in Virginia

A guide to published and digital resources related to the history of school desegregation in Virginia.

Websites

Books

Anderson, James D. The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-–1935. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1988.

Fairclough, Adam. A Class of Their Own: Black Teachers in the Segregated South. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

Tushnet, Mark V. The NAACP’s Legal Strategy against Segregated Education, 1925–1950. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.

Williams, Heather Andrea. Self-Taught: African American Education in Slavery and Freedom. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2005.