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Kristen Green

Biography

Kristen Green

Kristen Green has worked as a reporter for the Boston Globe, the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Richmond Times-Dispatch. She holds a master's degree in public administration from the Harvard Kennedy School. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY is her first book. She lives in Richmond, Virginia.

Kristen Green

Books by Kristen Green

Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle
by Kristen Green - History, Nonfiction

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in the case of Brown v. Board of Education, Virginia’s Prince Edward County refused to obey the law. Rather than desegregate, the county closed its public schools. Kristen Green grew up in Farmville and attended Prince Edward Academy, which didn’t open its doors to black students until 1986. Thirty-four years after the Supreme Court ended school segregation, Green first began to learn the truth about her hometown’s shameful history. As she peels back the layers of this haunting period in our nation’s past, her own family’s role comes to light.