 Prince Edward County is the source of "Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County", a case incorporated into "Brown v. Board of Education," which ultimately resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court decision that racially segregated public schools were unconstitutional.This ultimately led to the desegregation of all U.S. public schools.Among the five cases decided under "Brown", Davis was the only one initiated by students, after they walked out in 1951 to protest overcrowding and poor conditions at their segregated school under Jim Crow laws.