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Alfred L. Cobbs Recalls the Day Prince Edward County Closed Its Schools to Fight Mandatory Integration 鈥� and the Families Who Took In Those Lost Students

Cobbs brothers (from left to right, Freddie, Alfred, Samuel) in the late 1950s. (Courtesy of Recovering Untold Stories: An Enduring Legacy of the Brown v. Board of Education Decision)

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