Скачать или смотреть He Didn't Want Integration When It Happened In Virginia

As many of you know who have been following my video posts, I recorded hundreds of interviews in 1989 for a television project. This gentleman from Farmville Virginia is speaking specifically about the experiences he encountered there, around the time of Brown versus Board of Education, integrating school systems. Prince Edward County, his County, chose to close the public schools for five years rather than integrate. He was a schoolteacher and proud of it. Shocked by what occurred. Not certain that he was completely in favor of integration as it was being experienced by him and others in Virginia at that time. I appreciated his honesty and his clarity. He was not a civil rights activist but he thoroughly believed in the power and value of education to elevate people and give them opportunities.