"That's just the way it was"
Subtitle: a chronological and documentary history of African-American schools in Staunton and Augusta County
By: by Laten Ervin Bechtel ; with Susie Brent King
Contributors: King, Susie Brent
Publisher: Lot's Wife Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Staunton, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 420
ISBN-13: 9781934368183
Subjects: Alumni and alumnae; Booker T. Washington High School (Staunton, Va.); African American teachers; Census, 1874; Schools; Langston-Douglass Academy (Staunton, Va.); Education; African Americans; History
Other titles: Chronological and documentary history of African-American schools in Staunton and Augusta County
Notes: On cover, crossed out, the words "colored, negro, black" precede "African-American."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one. Freedmen Bureau schools. Freedom ; Moving forward ; Growth and decline; title: Part two. Staunton schools. The beginning ; A new century and a new school ; Jim Crow years ; Unequal pay for equal work ; You will teach white children ; Brown comes to Staunton; title: Part three. Augusta County schools. On the way ; Left behind ; Some day they will call you mister ; Second class all the way ; A community unto ourselves ; It will change ; A new day; title: Appendix A. Petition for Annie Dunn; title: Appendix B. Staunton Teachers; title: Appendix C. Booker T. Washington High School graduates; title: Appendix D. Middle River district School census 1874; title: Appendix E. Langston-Douglass Academy; title: Appendix F. Augusta County School profiles.