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were constructed in Rappahannock County at Amissville, Flint Hill, Washington, and Scrabble. Of these, the Washington and Scrabble schools remain. The Washington School is a now a private residence. The Scrabble School is the subject of a current intense community restoration project.
The Amissville Graded School was located on Poes Rd near the original black School. Flint Hill Graded School, located on Fodder stack Rd near the intersection with the Aileen Rd, was built in 1925. In 1958, the name of the school was changed to Russell Graded School in honor of Mr. Warner A. Russell who had been a teacher for 41 years. The school housed grades one to five; students moved on to the Washington Graded School for grades six and seven.
During the 1930s and 40s, many blacks migrated out of Rappahannock. The resulting drop in school age children led to a consolidation of the black schools. Many of the older small schools were closed and students bussed to the Rosenwald schools. This was something of an improvement, but still firmly separate and unequal. One former teacher recalls the large discrepancy in pay between black and white teachers.
There were no high school alternatives for black students within Rappahannock until school desegregation took place in the late 1960s. Before this, most black high school students attended George Washington Carver HS in Culpeper or Criser in Front Royal.
Even as Warren County was a center of resistance to desegregation, former students recall that the initial
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