Richardson and Morton Schools

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Louisa Training School, the county's first high school for African American students, was built three miles northwest in 1926 with aid from the Rosenwald Fund. In 1953, Archie Gibbs Richardson High School replaced it here as part of an effort to provide “separate but equal” facilities for African Americans. The school was named for the only black official then employed by Virginia’s Education Department. Also on this site stood Zelda Carter Morton Elementary School, built in 1960 and named for the county’s Jeanes Fund supervisor of education for blacks from 1926 to 1945. Louisa County schools were desegregated in 1969.

Department of Historic Resources, 2015

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References/Bibliographic Citation:

African American Schools of Louisa County, Virginia (http://louisaheritage.org/history.htm) Central Virginian, 1 March 2012, 18 July 2014, 16 Oct. 2014. Fisk University Rosenwald Fund Card File Database Guide to the Papers of Archie G. Richardson, Virginia State University (http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=vsu/vipets00038.xml) Pearl Mills Harris, A Brief History of Education in Louisa County (Orange, VA: The Orange Review, 1963), 55-61. Piedmont Virginia Digital History: The Land between the Rivers (http://www.piedmontvahistory.org/archives14/index.php) Entries on Anna T. Jeanes Fund, Massive Resistance, Rosenwald Schools, Zelda Carter Fletcher Morton