virginia

In the wake of the Supreme Court's unanimous Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Virginia's Prince Edward County refused to comply. Instead the county closed its public schools and locked the doors. The community's white leaders quickly established a private academy, commandeering supplies from the shuttered public school for their all-white classrooms. Meanwhile, Black parents had to teach their kids at home, move across county lines, or send them to live with relatives in other states. For five years the schools remained closed. Eventually they would reopen but Prince Edward Academy would not admit Black students until 1986. The author grew up in the county and in telling the story, her own family's role---no less complex and painful---comes to light.

1958: Richard and Mildred Loving were jailed because their marriage was not legally recognized in Virginia. In 1967, Loving v. Virginia went all the way to the Supreme Court.

In 1927, the Supreme Court handed down a ruling so disturbing, ignorant, and cruel that it stands as one of the great injustices in American history. The court's decision allowed the sterilization of a young woman it wrongly thought to be "feebleminded," and championed the mass eugenic sterilization of undesirable citizens for the greater good of the country.

Twelve-year-old Treasure Daniels and her younger sister must move in with Great-aunt Grace until their mother sorts herself out, but life in Black Lake, Virginia, where segregation lingers, is hard and Grace is a nightmare--at least on the surface.

Whirlwind, a Cherokee woman, believes there is profit to be made in trade with the brutal Spanish, and earns herself the name of War Woman for her efforts to lead her people through the terrifying time of displacement caused by encroaching Europeans.

Presents a brief biography of Pocahontas, one of America's earliest heroes who helped save the lives of the first colonists at Jamestown.

What if you were born into slavery in 1805? And what if the man who owned you...was also your father? And what if he were one of the most important men in America? And what if he wanted the fact that you were his son kept a secret? Such was the world of James Madison Hemings. This is his story.

When the Bailey family moves into an army base in Virginia there are a lot of adjustments to make; twelve-year-old Tom runs afoul of the base school bully, ten-year-old Charlotte finds herself trying too hard to make friends with the "cool" girls, and six-year-old Rosie is just being difficult as usual--but they come together to investigate a mysterious building full of weird cages, and uncover Fort Patrick's secrets.

A fictionalized account of the life of Pocahontas, the seventeenth-century Indian princess who befriended Captain John Smith and the English settlers of Jamestown.

"Imagine being asked to explore an unknown part of the country. That's exactly what happened to Daniel Boone in the mid-1700s. Boone and others cut a path through the wilderness of Kentucky and Virginia. Lively language, historical illustrations, and primary source journal entries from Boone and his fellow settlers help readers feel as if they were a part of the journey. Meets Common Core critical thinking standards, and provides strong ties to social studies standards on westward expansion"--Provided by the publisher.