By Tom Markland, The Journal
HARPERS FERRY, W.Va. – Panelists gathered in Harpers Ferry on Saturday, sharing memories of Storer College, what it was like to be a student there and the impact it had on the community at the time.
Storer College, a historically black college, ran for 88 years, from the end of the Civil War until it stopped receiving funds after Brown V. Board of Education. By 1955, the college had provided an education for more than 7,000 students.
For the first 25 years of its existence, Storer was the only secondary school in West Virginia that would educate black people. It remained the only school that would in Jefferson County until the 1930s.
The panelists included Anne Newcomer Dungan, a descendent of the school’s founder, George Rutherford, president of the Jefferson County NAACP, James Green, president of the Storer College National Alumni Association and Delores Foster, who attended Shepherd University soon after the Storer shut down.
