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Raymond Brown made history about a dozen years ago when he became the first black person to serve on the Rappahannock County Planning Commission.
Jackson District Supervisor Ron Frazier appointed the bom-andraised Amissvitle resident, who is still the only black person to have served on the commission. In January, Brown was reappointed as the commission's vice chair.
Brown, 76, said he had never given much thought to serving on the planning commission until Frazier asked him about it. He had already been a member of the Rappahannock County Electoral Board since 1992.
He says he enjoys serving on the planning commission and electoral board because ‘you get to meet a lot of the people of the county.*
Things have changed a lot in Rappahannock since the days when Brown was growing up in Amissvitle.
He attended Amissville Elementary School during the days of segregation when black children in the county were schooled only through
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