Prince Edward County High School
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Prince Edward County High School is a public high school located in Farmville
community in Prince Edward County, Virginia
. It is part of the Prince Edward County School Division. Athletic teams compete in the Virginia High School League's AA Southside District
in Region I
.
Prince Edward County High School is best known for the landmark cases Davis vs. The Prince Edward County Board of Education and Griffin vs. the Prince Edward County Board of Education. In 1951, then Moton High School was all black and very impoverished. The white students , at that time, attended public all white schools. The legal case became one of five others forming the foundation of the landmark case, Brown Versus The Board of Education. By 1959, when the county schools were finally forced to integrate, Prince Edward County reacted by closing their public schools to both white and black students. Moton High School remained closed for numerous years. Blacks who wished an education, were forced out of the county. Moton High was eventually reopened as Prince Edward High School and later renamed Prince Edward County High School.
Farmville, Virginia
Farmville is a town in Prince Edward and Cumberland counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 6,845 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Prince Edward County....
community in Prince Edward County, Virginia
Prince Edward County, Virginia
Prince Edward County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 23,368. Its county seat is Farmville.-Formation and County Seats:...
. It is part of the Prince Edward County School Division. Athletic teams compete in the Virginia High School League's AA Southside District
AA Southside District
The AA Southside District is one of the four districts of AA Region I of the Virginia High School League which typically includes schools in the area known as Southside Virginia, located south of the Greater Richmond Region down to the Virginia-North Carolina border.The schools in the Southside...
in Region I
AA Region I
Region I is one of the four AA regions of the Virginia High School League. It is made up of four districts: the AA Battlefield District, the AA Bay Rivers District, the A/AA Eastern Shore District, and the AA Southside District...
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Prince Edward County High School is best known for the landmark cases Davis vs. The Prince Edward County Board of Education and Griffin vs. the Prince Edward County Board of Education. In 1951, then Moton High School was all black and very impoverished. The white students , at that time, attended public all white schools. The legal case became one of five others forming the foundation of the landmark case, Brown Versus The Board of Education. By 1959, when the county schools were finally forced to integrate, Prince Edward County reacted by closing their public schools to both white and black students. Moton High School remained closed for numerous years. Blacks who wished an education, were forced out of the county. Moton High was eventually reopened as Prince Edward High School and later renamed Prince Edward County High School.