Hampton Roads: Remembering Our Schools

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With this striking collection of historical images, experience a front-row view of the origination of the public school system within Hampton Roads and the epic struggle for racial equality. From the seventeenth century until the present, this area of the Old Dominion has been at the forefront of challenges, including Reconstruction, Jim Crow law, racial disharmony and public resistance to tax-based public schools. The fiftieth anniversary of the reopening of Norfolk's desegregated schools marks an especially appropriate occasion on which to look back at the evolution of public education in the Hampton Roads region. Acknowledgements Introduction CHAPTER 1. The Origins of Schooling in Hampton Roads, 1634–1870 CHAPTER 2. Early Years of Public Education in Hampton Roads, 1870–1936 CHAPTER 3. Early Efforts Toward Equalization of Schools, 1936–1954 CHAPTER 4. The Gathering Storm, 1954–1958 CHAPTER 5. A Broken Beginning, 1958–1959 CHAPTER 6. Freedom of Choice, 1960–1968 CHAPTER 7. Are We to Be Unitary? 1969–1986 CHAPTER 8. An Imperfect Irony: Schools in Hampton Roads, 1986–2008 Bibliography