The Light of Reconciliation / Now, Therefore Be It Resolved,

On July 21, 2008, the Board of Supervisors of Prince Edward County illuminated the Light of Reconciliation in the courthouse bell tower in honor of Barbara Rose Johns, the students of Robert Russa Moton High School, and all the county’s children for their historic role in ending public school segregation in the United States, while expressing sorrow for the closing of the county’s public schools. In a resolution adopted on July 8, 2008, the board declared that closing the schools from 1959 to 1964 was wrong, grieved the lasting changes to lives, the pain caused, the lost opportunities, and the dreams that were blocked, and expressed regret for those past actions and for all wounds known and unknown.

Farmville, Virginia · United States