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A Memoir by Ed Peeples
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Edward H. Peeples, with Nancy MacLean
Afterword by James H. Hershman Jr.

From the University of Virginia Press

248 pages • 6 x 9 • Cloth
​Also available as paperback and e-book
ISBN 978-0-8139-3539-3


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Guides to Edward H. Peeples, Jr., Papers

Prince Edward County Collection >


Collection M68 >
The collection consists of materials collected by Dr. Peeples in the field of hunger, poverty, and racial issues in the United States and abroad. There is considerable information on the fight for integration in Virginia in the 1960s. It includes his thesis on the Prince Edward County school issue in the late 1950s and early 1960s as well as many newspaper articles that document that period. A large portion of this collection is made up of numerous types of publications.

Collection M342 >
The Papers of Dr. Edward H. Peeples , Jr. document his long career in education and public health and in his activities as a promoter of social justice in a variety of human rights reforms in Virginia and other places across the south. The collection is especially strong in the areas of race and discrimination, poverty, public health and school inequality from the 1950s through the 1980s including materials relating to the closing of public schools in Virginia's Prince Edward County. Other subject areas include the early history of Virginia Commonwealth University (1967-early 1970s) and various programs associated with the University, human relations in Richmond and Virginia, and the aftermath of Hurricane Camille (1969). The materials in the collection include a large of amount of correspondence, reports, and publications. Also included in the collection are newspaper and journal clippings, photographs (many of Prince Edward County and other areas in Virginia taken by Peeples), slides, phonographs, and other materials. The bulk of the collection dates from 1950s through 2005.



Ed's Special Causes
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