Abstract

Around the U.S.A. Commuting 108 Miles To Public School

White Sulphur Springs in West Virginia, is a town of 2,643 population and is one of those linked irrevocably to the word "charming." Nestled-another inseparable word-in the West Virginia mountains, it is distinguished by the presence of the famed Greenbrier Hotel, which employs most of the town's Negroes and a good portion of its white residents. At the time of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on segregation. Greenbrier County, which contains White Sulphur Springs, had thirteen high schools for while and one for colored children. In September 1954, the county school board ruled that henceforth children who chose to attend the white schools nearest their homes were to be admitted. For Negro families this ruling was of momentous importance.