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eral of the black elementary schools, was made possible by contributions from the Rosenwald Foundation and the hard work of parents in the community.
Gloria Myers told of going to the school at Flint Hill and then Criser High School in Front Royal, “the teachers took extra time with us,” she said. In 1966 she was one of four black students who attended Rappahannock County High School. “The transition was hard,” she said. “The teachers didn’t seem to take the time to help us. Prayer was the key to my success in graduating from an integrated school.”
Samuel Glasker,talked about George Washington Carver High School. Culpeper and Orange counties had schools for blacks that did not provide adequate education for those wishing to attend college, he said. Madison and Rappahannock counties had no secondary school for black students. Facing the possibility of a suit the four counties got together and built the regional high school. It opened in 1948 with 452 students and 14 teachers. Eight more classrooms and a gym were added shortly. “It gained a reputation at the state and national level,” he said.
Anna Allsberry recalled Christmas plays at the Scrabble School and May Day celebrations with a King and Queen. “It closed in 1967 when the schools were integrated, and is now' a dump site. I have many wonderful memories of Scrabble,” she said.
Lilian Aylor told of the Smedley School. She said she never attended, because it was closed by the time she was school age, but she remembered going there as a pre-schooler for programs. That is now the site of the Gid Brown Bible Church, she said.
James Russell said he was in the process of preparing a booklet on black education in the county. He told of the Scrabble School. Two girls were assigned to bring water from a spring in the morning and two boys in the afternoon. He said there was friction between white and black students at the county commencements in Washington. Sometimes rocks were thrown at them from buses, he said.
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