Civil War Earthworks

Historical marker location:

204 Sentinel Drive, Winchester, Virginia

( Marker can be reached from Fortress Drive, 0.1 miles north of North Frederick Pike (U.S. 522), on the right when traveling north.)

"Where they are compelled by nature ... to resort to it".

In 1954, the Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, which declared segregation in public schools unconstitutional, originated from a lawsuit filed by parents in Virginia.