"Dirt Don't Burn centers both the local history topics that were forgotten by the white residents of Loudon County and the conscious forgetting of Black history in the county. Roeder and Harrelson carefully recover this important story."?George Oberle, director of the Center for Mason Legacies, George Mason University"Blending local and Virginia history, African American studies and history, education history, law, and civil rights, Dirt Don't Burn documents the important and neglected story of the education of African Americans in Loudoun County, Virginia, during the Jim Crow and civil rights eras. It is of significant value."?Brian J. Daugherity, associate professor of history, Virginia Commonwealth University, author of Keep On Keeping On: The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia
