And that was it: the strike was over. The 450 teenagers, who had maintained complete solidarity, with not a single student returning to school until they all agreed to, pledged to resume classes on Monday, May 7. That was the day their attorneys brought their lawsuit to federal court: Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, named for the ninth grader, Dorothy Davis, whose name headed the list of 117 students and 67 parents.18
