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Mr. U. A. Norton, Superintendent of Schools for the consolidated Rappahannock-Warren County school districts, recalled in a January interview that the stormy integration experienced by Warren County in the late ’sixties was not duplicated in Rappahannock. "Perhaps there was a lesson learned from Warren county’s troubles." Norton said. “But most important. there was just a different climate in Rappahannock."
Norton pointed out that in the rural hollows, blacks and whites were neighbors and had never experienced social integration with the same formality as the industry-oriented county to the north.
“Many concerned Rappahannock white teachers had been helping teachers in black schools.” he said. Here. Norton said, there was a group of dedicated women who were devoted to education and had already experienced the integration of some of the mountain children into Rappahannock’s school system.
“Also,” he said, “any conscientous educator could see that some of the black schools were seriously in need of repair and expansion.”
In an effort to fulfill the mandate of full integration, Norton traveled to Washington to meet with educators there. The plan he and others thought would work best here was consolidation of the schools, providing a central elementary and high school for both black and white children. , “With consolidation, no-one would have to worry about their child be- j ing the only white child in a (
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