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Without the philanthropy of Julius Rosenwald, I probably would not have received even the separate and entirely unequal elementary education which I completed in 1946; the “school” in Smedley, Va. (Gid Brown Hollow) was the traditional single-room structure where one teacher was responsible for seven grades.
And neither the Commonwealth of Virginia nor Mr. Roeenwald had provided a high school for blacks in Rappahannock County, so concurring with an aunt that I was “too young to stop school,” I elected to be bused to the two-room elementary school in Washington, Va., where I was fortunate to be influenced by Anna Williams Green, who taught me completely new seventh grade concepts, especially in grammar and rhetoric.
Determined to provide a secondary education for me, Mrs. Green persuaded a relative in Williamsburg, James C. Williams Sr., to foster my educational efforts; consequently in September 1946 I entered Bruton Heights School, a relatively new physical structure
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