 After the United States Supreme Court ruled in "Brown v. Board of Education" that public education must be racially integrated, the Prince Edward County school board closed all of its schools, appropriating no funds whatsoever for public schooling in Prince Edward County for the fall of 1959.Fuqua School was initially founded in 1959 as Prince Edward Academy in response to pending integration, part of a strategy known as massive resistance.Classes began at Prince Edward Academy on September 14, 1959.