Interview with John Stokes. He begins by saying that him and the students did not go on strike for intrgration but for a new building. He says if they had gotten a new building he would have not been a part of Brown v Board. He says that the lack of resources made him realize him and the other students were being programed for failure. He said they knew of "separate but equal," excpet that it was everything but being equal. He says that this was the only case of the Brown cases to be student led and that he could not be any prouder to have been one of those students. After the schools were shut down, many students didn't get an education, white or black.

Photograph in the newspaper the Richmond Afro American of a meeting in Rev. L. Francis Griffin’s church, in which NAACP lawyers convinced the students to forget the request for a new school and instead demand that the court strike down the Virginia law requiring segregated schools.

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After the strike, The Rev. L. Francis Griffin (chairman of Moton’s PTA) asked NAACP attorneys and Richmond natives Oliver Hill and Spottswood W. Robinson III to visit Prince Edward County. Some parents preferred working with the school board rather than antagonizing it, but the majority supported the suit. Robinson filed the suit on 23, 1951. After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, Prince Edward County schools remained segregated. In 1959 the Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors refused to appropriate money for the schools to protest court rulings. All schools closed and black students either attended schools out of the county or dropped their education altogether. White students could attend private schools that formed to avoid desegregation. The Reverend L. Francis Griffin, the local NAACP chapter president, arranged for some students to attend Kittrell Junior College in Henderson, North Carolina, and set up training centers for students who remained in Prince Edward County in an attempt to give the children limited instruction in reading and arithmetic. Prince Edward County schools reopened in 1964 and then only after a court order. During the 2003 session, the General Assembly issued a resolution apologizing to Prince Edward County students who lost five years of education.