Dirt Don’t Burn: A Black Community’s Struggle for Educational Equality under Segregation

2024/11/01 by Meredith Barber · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Diverse Education Studies and Reforms

paper · doi:10.1080/03612759.2024.2420389

openalex publication_date 2024/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15

Abstract

Dirt Don’t Burn, a local history of African American education in Loudoun County, Virginia, brings attention to previously lost sources and unrecognized individuals in the long civil rights movemen...

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• Dirt Don’t Burn: A Black Community’s Struggle for Educational Equality under Segregation by Larry Roeder Reviewed by Meredith Barber doi.org/10.1080/0361... histedsocuk.bsky.social zinnedproject.bs [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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