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| Title: | New Kent School and the George W. Watkins School : from freedom of choice to integration |
| Description: | Web site providing a lesson plan about the 1968 Green v. School Board of New Kent County (Virginia) United States Supreme Court decision which overturned a local "freedom-of-choice" school desegregation plan, ruling that such plans tend to be ineffective at achieving integration. The lesson plan includes an introductory question, historical context; a map of New Kent County, Virginia; readings relating to the Supreme Court case; photographs from the traditionally white New Kent School and the traditionally African American George W. Watkins School; a list of activities; and a list of supplementary resources. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. |
| Types: | Instructional materials | Maps | Photographs | Texts (document genres) | Web sites | Lesson plans | Teaching guides |
| Subjects: | Brown, Oliver, 1918- --Trials, litigation, etc. | Green, Charles C.--Trials, litigation, etc. | Segregation--United States | Segregation in education--United States | Segregation in education--Virginia--New Kent County | National Association for the Advancement of Colored People | School integration--United States | School integration--Virginia--New Kent County | School integration--Massive resistance movement | School integration--Massive resistance movement--Virginia--New Kent County | Civil rights movements--United States | African Americans--Education--Virginia--New Kent County | African Americans--Education | Historic sites--Virginia--New Kent County | United States. Supreme Court | New Kent County (Va.)--Race relations--History--20th century | New Kent County (Va.) | New Kent (Va.) |
| Collection: | Teaching with Historic Places |
| Institution: | National Park Service |
| Contributors: | United States. National Park Service | Teaching with Historic Places Collection |
| Online Publisher: | [Washington (D.C.)] : National Park Service |
| Related Materials: | From the Teaching with Historic Places Collection |
| Persistent Link to Item: | http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/104newkent/104newkent.htm |
