Hampton Roads

Remembering Our Schools

Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Jeffrey Littlejohn, Charles H. Ford, Sonia Yaco, The Norfolk Historical Society

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781625842862
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

With this striking collection of historical images, experience afront-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.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 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