Page "Prince Edward County, Virginia" Paragraph 15

From 1959 to 1964, black students in Prince Edward County had to go to school elsewhere or forgo their education altogether.

Some got schooling by living with relatives in nearby communities or at makeshift schools the community created in church basements.

Others were educated out of state with funds raised by groups such as the Society of Friends.

In the final year ( 1963 – 1964 ), the NAACP-sponsored Prince Edward Free School picked up some of the slack by educating some of the black youth who had been unable to leave the county to attend public schools elsewhere.