Kristen Green (Author of Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County)

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Kristen Green is the author of two nonfiction books, THE DEVIL'S HALF ACRE (April 2022) and the New York Times bestseller SOMETHING MUST BE DONE ABOUT PRINCE EDWARD COUNTY. She has worked as a journalist for two decades for papers including the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Boston Globe.

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"A gripping narrative"鈥� -New York Times鈥�

"A gift to a new generation of readers"鈥� -The Washington Post

"This intimate and candid account.... personalizes politics, jangles nerves and opens minds."鈥�
-Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Green's work brims with real-life detail from the journalist's eye and ear and joins the likes of Diane McWhorter's CARRY ME HOME in further developing the dimensions of the South's desegregation struggle"鈥� ...more

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	Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle 3.84 avg rating — 1,722 ratings — published 2015 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail 3.58 avg rating — 846 ratings — published 2022 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Separate but Not Equal The only places on earth not to provide free public education are communist China, North Vietnam, Sarawak, Singapore, British Honduras鈥攁nd Prince Edward County, Virginia. 鈥擴S ATTORNEY GENERAL ROBERT F. KENNEDY, MARCH 19, 1963, LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY”
― Kristen Green, Something Must Be Done about Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle

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“At an 1854 Fourth of July abolitionist rally in Framinhmgham, Massachusetts, William Lloyd Garrison burned copies of both the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act and the court's decision to send Burns back to Virginia. He also lit on fire the US Constitution, calling it "a covenant with death, and an agreement with hell.”
― Kristen Green, The Devil's Half Acre: The Untold Story of How One Woman Liberated the South's Most Notorious Slave Jail

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“Farmville is still the quiet community where I spent long summer afternoons floating in my parents' pool. On the surface, it is a perfectly charming Southern place to grow up, a seemingly wholesome town to raise a family.

That is, until you dive in.”
― Kristen Green, Something Must Be Done About Prince Edward County: A Family, a Virginia Town, a Civil Rights Battle

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