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King’s dream kept alive
The keynote speaker, Betty Kilby Fisher, gave an aweinspiring, motivational talk directed at keeping Martin Luther King, Jr.’s.dream alive. Fisher was an infant plaintiff in the case of Betty Ann Kilby vs Warren County Board of Education.
In 1958, the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in young Betty Kilby’s favor and closed Warren County’s only high school under Virginia’s Massive Resistance laws. Fisher then graduated from the reopened Warren County High School.A native of Flint Hill and Front Royal, Fisher now lives in Dallas, Texas.
A college graduate, Fisher went on to reach upper management positions in the corporate world as well as becoming an author and motivational speaker. A book-signing reception for Betty Kilby Fisher’s new book, “Wit, Will and Walls,” was held immediately following the event at the Washington Baptist Church.
Fisher noted that slavery ended as well as segregation, but justice did not come easily. As Fisher recalled her own experience growing up in Virginia before desegregation in the 1950s, she remembered Dr. King’s “Dream Speech” in which he yearned for that day when all people “will be judged not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.”
Fisher left her audience with a thought: “When the roll is called up yonder, will you be able to say, ‘I made a difference in anyone’s life?’”
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