Christopher Bonastia, Southern Stalemate: Five Years Without Public Education in Prince Edward County, Virginia (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2012), 106, 131, chap. Click here to see the Hoover project showcasing the works of Milton and Rose Friedman.

Blacks in Prince Edward County had “far lower average incomes, did not have the economic resources to create authentic private schools by themselves.” While white segregationist groups did offer financial help to create black schools, these offers risked “jeopardiz the desegregation lawsuit, never received serious consideration.” Thus, while most whites attended a comprehensive “white only” private school, African-Americans either attended makeshift” training centers staffed by volunteers, or were sent to live with relatives or volunteer foster parents in counties and states where public schooling was available. Whites were able to attend the financially well-endowed Prince Edward Academy, which enrolled “about 93 percent of white students” in 1959. While the voucher program was non-discriminatory-students were able to take advantage of the same voucher regardless of race, and schools for African American students were not prohibited from opening in the county-the voucher program had an undeniably disparate effect of whites and blacks. operated without the benefit of tax-funded public schooling. The Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans’ rights to the equal protection under the law was violated because only students in Prince Edward Co. School Board of Prince Edward County, 37, 377 (U.S.

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