Case: Allen/Davis/Griffin v. County School Board of Prince Edward Co.

51-01333 | U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia

Filed Date: 1951

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People

Judge(s)

Lewis, Oren Ritter (Virginia)

Judge(s)

Lewis, Oren Ritter (Virginia)

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Documents in the Clearinghouse

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51-01333	Opinion	March 7, 1952	March 7, 1952 Order/Opinion 103 F.Supp. 337
51-01333	Opinion	July 17, 1956	July 17, 1956 Order/Opinion 142 F.Supp. 616
51-01333	Opinion	Jan. 23, 1957	Jan. 23, 1957 Order/Opinion 149 F.Supp. 431
7463	Opinion U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit	Nov. 11, 1957	Nov. 11, 1957 Order/Opinion 249 F.2d 462
51-01333	Order Allen v. County School Board of Prince Edward County	Dec. 4, 1957	Dec. 4, 1957 Order/Opinion
51-01333	Opinion	Aug. 4, 1958	Aug. 4, 1958 Order/Opinion 164 F.Supp. 786
8837	Opinion U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit	Aug. 12, 1963	Aug. 12, 1963 Order/Opinion 322 F.2d 332
00592	Opinion Supreme Court of the United States	May 25, 1964	May 25, 1964 Order/Opinion 377 U.S. 218

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Title	Description		External URL Date / External URL
Davis v. Prince Edward County Brown65	In April 1951, Barbara Rose Johns, a Moton High School student in Farmville, Va., organized a two-week-long student strike to protest poor school conditions.	May 8, 2019	May 8, 2019 https://brown65.the74million.org/...
Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision	The book linked in this resource captures the first-person narratives of individuals who were plaintiffs or whose families were represented in the five cases consolidated by the United States Supreme…	Jan. 1, 2018	Jan. 1, 2018 https://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/...
Southern Stalemate: Five Years Without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia Christopher Bonastia	In 1959, Virginia’s Prince Edward County closed its public schools rather than obey a court order to desegregate. For five years, black children were left to fend for themselves while the courts deci…	Jan. 11, 2012	Jan. 11, 2012 http://www.scribd.com/...

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Case Type(s):

School Desegregation

Key Dates

Filing Date: 1951

Case Details

Other Dockets:

Eastern District of Virginia 51-01333

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 8837

Supreme Court of the United States 00592

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit 7463