Hampton Roads
Subtitle: remembering our schools
By: Cassandra Newby-Alexander ... [et al.].
Contributors: Newby-Alexander, Cassandra, 1957-
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charleston, S.C
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781596296022
Subjects: Public schools -- Virginia -- Hampton Roads (Region) -- History; Public schools -- Virginia -- Hampton Roads (Region) -- History -- Pictorial works; Education -- Virginia -- Hampton Roads (Region) -- History; Hampton Roads (Va. : Region) -- History; Hampton Roads (Va. : Region) -- History -- Pictorial works; Hampton Roads (Va. : Region) -- Social conditions; Hampton Roads (Va. : Region) -- History, Local
Genres: Pictorial works.
Table of contents: title: The origins of schooling in Hampton Roads, 1634-1870; title: The early years of public education in Hampton Roads, 1870-1936; title: Early efforts toward equalization of schools, 1936-1954; title: The gathering storm, 1954-1958; title: 1958-1959, A broken beginning; title: Freedom of choice, 1960-1968; title: Are we to be unitary, 1969-1986?; title: An imperfect irony : schools in Hampton Roads, 1986-2008.