Prince Edward County closed its public schools for five years. The school closures lasted until the 1960s, when Attorney General Robert Kennedy got involved. “We may observe with much sadness and irony that, outside of Africa, south of the Sahara, where education is still a difficult challenge, the only places on earth known not to provide free public education are Communist China, North Vietnam, Sarawak, Singapore, British Honduras—and Prince Edward County, Virginia,” he said.[22] In 1963, Prince Edward County schools had still not integrated, nine years after Brown v. Board of Education.
