Fauquier Times February 6, 2019

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February 6, 2019

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Scandals rock Richmond

Governor, Lt. Governor navigate controversies By Jill Palermo

Times Staff Writer

Despite calls for his resignation from elected officials of both parties from across the commonwealth, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam stubbornly clung to power this week, refusing

to resign over a racist photograph that appeared in his 1984 medical school yearbook and vowing instead to lead an effort toward racial reconciliation. “I cannot in good conscious choose the path that would be easier for me in an effort to duck my responsibility to reconcile,” Northam (D) said in a 40-minute news conference from the governor’s mansion Saturday. “I believe this moment can be the first small step to open a discussion

about these difficult issues and how they contribute to the greater racism and discrimination that defines so much of our history.” Northam sought to explain to the nation Feb. 2 why he first apologized Friday for appearing in the offensive picture in his Eastern Virginia Medical School yearbook, which depicted one person in blackface and another in a Ku Klux Klan hood, and then said he wasn’t in the picture after all. See NORTHAM, Page 4

Gov. Ralph Northam

‘We made it warm’

Rosenwald students remember Fauquier’s all-black schools By Robin Earl

Times Staff Writer

There was no central heating in Fauquier County’s all-black schools. Most were one-room schoolhouses without indoor plumbing. On Saturday, Linda Reed Jolley, of Crest Hill, shared these and other early childhood memories at a screening of the film “Rosenwald” at the Afro-American Historical Association in The Plains. The movie tells the story of Sears & Roebuck co-owner Julius Rosenwald, a philanthropist who helped build more than 5,300 schools for black children across the South. Fauquier County had eight Rosenwald schools. They comprised half of the allblack schools in the area during the first half of the 20th century. Jolley started off as a first grader at the Orlean School in 1959 and stayed until 1961. “Orlean was a one-room schoolhouse See ROSENWALD, Page 5

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