ABSTRACT
DIVERSITY COMES TO MANASSAS PARK Th e city of Manassas Park became Virginia’s newest city when it withdrew from Prince William County in 1975. A year later the City Council decided that the arrangement whereby Manassas Park students continued to attend Prince William schools no longer was satisfactory. A School Board was appointed, and Manassas Park went into the business of providing public education. Th e students who attended school in the new school system constituted a relatively homogeneous group of white students from working-class families. Manassas Park consisted primarily of modest homes, many constructed to house GIs returning from World War II.
