DESEGREGATION
IN ORANGE COUNTY SCHOOLS
A SPECIAL EXHIBIT BY THE ORANGE COUNTY AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY
On view February 7 - March 11, 2022
ABOUT
THE EXHIBIT
Presented by the Orange County African American Historical Society, this historical exhibit focuses on the effect Brown v. Board of Education had on schools in Orange County, Virginia.
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. This important ruling was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all,
