We Are Your Children Too by P. O'Connell Pearson

Author:P. O'Connell Pearson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published: 2023-01-10T00:00:00+00:00

During July and August 1963, Black county residents—many of them teens who had gone north in the student placement program—spent hours on the streets of Farmville. One group would picket for two or three hours in Virginia’s thick summer heat and then go back to a Black church to rest while another group took their place.108

They made some progress. Three store owners agreed to hire Black workers rather than lose Black customers, and a department store allowed Black shoppers to try on clothing. But teens and college students weren’t the ones spending money in Farmville, and it wasn’t easy to convince older Black people in a place like Prince Edward County to boycott (stay away from) businesses. If residents didn’t shop in Farmville, they had to go fifty miles to buy groceries or anything else. Working people couldn’t afford the time or the gas for that.

Sandy Stokes, Everett Berryman, and Emerson Hunt protest in Farmville, 1963.

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