Weaverville
Former students tell of separate schools
Pediatric, Adolescent,
By Matt Tate
Women’s Health, and Adult Care
Weaverville resident Geraldine
Ray said it did not bother her that
she had attended Weaverville Col-
...would
ored School from 1942 to 1951. She
did not know any other way.
“We played with the white kids,”
like to
she said. “[Going to the school]
wasn’t a problem because that was
welcome
all we knew.”
Asheville resident Sarah Weston
Dr.
Hart said the thing she remembers
most from attending Long Ridge
School in Mars Hill from the late
Jennifer
40s to the early 50s was the morals
and values the teachers instilled in
Hall
them.
For these two ladies, separate
Jennifer Hall, MD
may not have been equal, but their
experiences gave them perspectives
each were willing to share with ea-
ger fifth-grade students from Vance
call for an appointment
Elementary School on Monday
(March 30).
828-645-8525
The classes at the two schools
were divided between students in
201 Flat Creek Village Drive • Weaverville, NC 28787
the first through fourth grades and
students in the fifth through eight
I-26 exit 17 next to N. Windy Ridge Elementary School
grades. Ray said days at Weaverville
Colored School would often start
with the boys collecting kindling
from the nearby woods on Reems
Creek Road and starting the pot-
bellied stove to warm the building.
Students would sit in desks and read
from books the school’s organizers
were able to scrape together from
Now Stocking
second-hand use.
Weaverville High School, then
Treated Lumber!
located on South Main Street,
would sometimes offer lunches to
the students if they would make the
trek to the schoolhouse to pick them
The Rev. Louis Grant, center left, and his wife, Sandra, accompany Geraldine Ray, center right, and Sarah Weston Hart, far right, as they share their
up. Otherwise, Ray said the students
experiences attending segregated schools in the 40s and 50s.
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14 THE TRIBUNE - Apr 2 - 8, 2009
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