Farmville Protests of 1963
Document Type
Encyclopedia Entry
Original Publication Date
2014
Journal/Book/Conference Title
Encyclopedia Virginia
Date of Submission
February 2020
Abstract
The Farmville civil rights demonstrations began late in July 1963, when the Reverend L. Francis Griffin organized a direct-action campaign to, as he told reporters, "protest closed schools, delay in the courts, and segregation in its totality." Public schools in Prince Edward County and its county seat, Farmville, had been closed since June 1959, when county officials refused to levy taxes to operate schools rather than follow federal court orders to desegregate.
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