Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County

Before the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision, the white and colored students of Prince Edward County schools had vastly different educational experiences as a result of legalized segregation made possible by the 1896 Supreme Court case, Plessy v. Ferguson.  These staunch differences led to black students performing a walkout, beginning a legal fight for an equal education. Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County became one of the five cases combined to create what we now know as Brown v. Board of Education. Rather than accepting the inequalities of a segregated education, the students of Moton High School fought for their right to learn in an environment that was equal to that of their white counterparts. Though Prince Edward County had a constitutional responsibility to provide an equal education to all students, it failed to do so. As a result, the students of Moton High School made it their responsibility, changing our nation's history in the process.

Please make a selection below to enter the Farmville High School (the whites-only high school) or Moton High School (the colored high school) and see for yourself that separate is far from equal.