Bücher von Jill Ogline Titus

In this fascinating work, Jill Ogline Titus uses centennial events in Gettysburg to examine the history of political, social, and community change in 1960s America. She shows how the era's deep divisions thrust Gettysburg into the national spotlight and ensured that white and Black Americans would define its meaning in dramatically different ways.

When the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in `Brown v. Board of Education' in 1954, Prince Edward County, Virginia, home to one of the five cases combined by the Court under `Brown', abolished its public school system rather than integrate. Jill Titus situates the crisis in Prince Edward County within the seismic changes brought by `Brown' and Virginia's decision to resist desegregation.