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called “graded schools” in the coded vernacular of the day, but blacks who wanted further education had to get to Culpeper every morning. Porter-Price went to the Washington Graded School on Piedmont Avenue, since converted to apartments.
In the fall of 1966 she went to a white school for the first time. Even today, in truth, blacks and whites are largely separate. Before the schools integrated*.there was truly very little interaction between blacks and whites.
“I hadn’t been exposed to a lot of white people. We had our neighborhood, our church, our school. When we went to town, to Front Royal we’d see other people, but not every day...,” said PorterPrice.
Being at RCHS was her first close, daily contact with whites.
A friendly gesture
She remembered her mother dropping her off outside RCHS but she wouldn’t come in.
Porter-Price found herself standing there outside not knowing what to do, when “a girl sitting there outside the school said ‘do you know
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