A review by brighteyes1178
Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle by Kristen Green

3.0

This book is annoying. It's a great story, yet is constantly interrupted by the author trying to make sure she gets into every paragraph that she is not racist and by the way, she has a brown husband and mixed-race children. I wanted less of her angst and more of the stories of the people who were denied an education by the segregationist closing of the public schools for five years.

As I was coincidentally reading this in the two weeks after the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, I was struck by the parallel of students advocating for change. The black Prince Edward County teenagers became part of Brown v. Board of Education; maybe the Florida students can also cause significant and lasting change.