View this discussion at the Library of Virginia with author Larry Roeder and Nathan Bailey about a Loudoun County, Virginia, community that overcame the cultural and legal hurdles of systematic racism to increase the equality of education for all children in the area. “Dirt Don’t Burn: A Black Community’s Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation” provides new historical details and insights into African American experiences based on original research in previously lost records, archival NAACP files and records of educational philanthropies.
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