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Newspaper: I Still Bear the Scars

Identifier: 2014.2.53
Object titles: I Still Bear the Scars
Acquisition and Creation Dates:
Acquisition Date 1965 - 2012
Date Cataloged February 19 2014
RHS Keywords: Black History,Schools
Library of Congress Subject Headings: Rural schools [info:lc/authorities/subjects/sh85115928]
Object Source Information: RHS Archives,RHS reference
Georeference: [38.6862707,-78.1881121]
Description: Rappahannock News follow-up article on the first days of integration in Rappahannock County. Reflections from Patricia Bailey Norwood who attended Rappahannock County High School starting in 1964 before formal integration. Mrs. Norwood was the first African-American student to enroll at the school and endured terrible hardships and humiliations before her graduation.

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