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With Reconstruction Virginia’s leaders committed themselves to publicly fund education for blacks and whites. But they made it clear that the two races wouldn’t be educated together. In 1896, the U.S. Supreme Court accepted the notion of segregated schools as long as facilities were equal. It quickly became apparent, however, there would be few, if any, public schools for blacks that were equal to those for whites. Peter Wallenstein (Virginia Tech) and Kara Miles Turner (Virginia State University) discuss the history of public education for African Americans in Virginia since the Civil War.
