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Parent Comments on Integration at Warren County High School
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The first portion of this clip has no spoken word. It shows some of the black students
who registered for classes at Warren County High School. The remaining footage shows WSLS
reporter Joe Moffatt interviewing Mr. Bowen, a white native of
Warren County. Mr. Bowen's two children were not attending the newly integrated schools.
When Warren County High School was closed in the fall of 1958, his children were sent to
Rappahannock and they refused to move to an integrated school. Mr. Bowen disapproved of
his children's decision. Going against the crowd of whites gathered below the school, Mr.
Bowen tacitly supported integrated education when he asked, "They've got to live with the
Colored for the rest of their lives, haven't they Why shouldn't they live with them in school?"
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