Prince Edward County (Va.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Rosalind (Silverman) Andrews Oral History
Collection
Identifier: QMP-0030
Scope and Contents
Rosalind Andrews (then Rosalind Silverman) grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens and was a student at Queens College between 1960 and 1965. While at Queens College, Andrews spent the summer of 1963 in Prince Edward County, Virginia among a cohort of selected students who helped tutor and prepare local students for the reopening of public schools that fall, which were closed since 1959 in massive resistance to integration. Andrews describes a typical day in Farmville as a tutor, the failed media...
Dates:
2020-10-23
