Prince Edward County, Va., a tobacco and wood-pulp center in the heart of the Old Dominion, is the only county in the U.S. without a single operating public school. The county was one of the localities involved in the original Supreme Court desegregation case, and for nearly two years, local officials have kept the 20 Negro and white schools closed in defiance of the court order. Last week the Department of Justice filed a motion in Richmond to force the rebellious county to reopen its schools on an integrated basis.
Specifically, the department asked Federal Judge Oren R. Lewis to:...
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