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they were “Negro Americans.”
No one dared even snicker. I might add that Miss Zinn was also my guidance counselor, and one who never wavered in her support of what even I thought were (sometimes) my unrealistic dreams of going on to a major college.
Years later I recalled something that happened even earlier. When I was in the sixth grade under Mrs. Anne S. Keyser we had a civics unit in which voting was discussed. One thing that came up was the poll tax and somehow a statement that Mrs. Keyser made always stuck with me, don’t ask how or why.
It was that in the South the poll tax was often used to deprive the negro of the ballot. Years later, when I was reflecting on why my outlook, on life turned out to be so different from those around me, I recalled that this was maybe a formative stimulus.
I am happy to say that I was able to visit with Mrs. Keyser a few years before her death and thank her for the influence she had on me. Yes, good teachers do make a difference.
While, it is true that in 1965 I had reached the point where Rappahannock could no longer give me what I was seeking, without these wise educators I may never have reached that point, or have been able to succeed in college, or in the community wherein I now adopted as my permanent home, Charlottesville.
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