

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County
A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
Author: Kristen Green
Narrator: Karen White
Unabridged: 10 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/01/2020
Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, History, Us History, Modern History
Synopsis
Kristen Green, a longtime newspaper reporter, grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, which did not admit black students until 1986. In her journey to uncover what happened in her hometown before she was born, Green tells the stories of families divided by the school closures and of 1,700 black children denied an education. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation's past, her own family's role—no less complex and painful—comes to light.
At once gripping, enlightening, and deeply moving, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County is a dramatic chronicle that explores our troubled racial past and its reverberations today, and a timeless story about compassion, forgiveness, and the meaning of home.