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Rappahannock News
Staff Photos/Bill Kossler WITNESS TO CHANGE: Marilyn Porter-Price is one of the first black RCHS alumni.
classmates were also black and well-known, to one where she would stand out in the extreme and be surrounded by, to her, hostile, white strangers.
But the decision was not hers to make.
The Porters lived just around the corner from RCHS, and the land upon which it was built was purchased from a close relative under threat of condemnation by eminent domain. The pressured sale is still a sore point with the family, and back, then was a fresh grievance.
Because integration had been anticipated since 1954, and because the school was so nearby and on former family land, “my mom said one of you is going £o that school” Porter-Price recalled. Before her mother made the decision for her, Porter-Price reminiscenced: “I was planning to go to Carver High School in Culpeper like my brother.” George Washington Carver High School was the closest high school for area blacks from its opening in 1948 until the integration of area schools from 1965 to 1970. There were several black elementary schools in the area,
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