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This article by Emma Boyce originally appeared in Country ZEST in Spring 2020 and has been updated for this issue.
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ames Smith still recalls the afternoon, nearly sixty years ago, when he walked into Bradfield’s drug store on West Washington Street. He was just a young man then. Inside the store, he moved to find an attendant, stepping briefly on a small, black square painted on the floor. A woman stopped him and pointed to the ground: African-Americans weren’t permitted beyond the square. “The woman said to me, you have to stand in this black square,” said Smith, now retired and in his 80s. “I told her no, I’m not standing on this square. I’m out of here and I left and I never went back.” Too many of these shameful stories marked the struggle for equal rights. Like many of his contemporaries, Smith, “Smitty” to friends, knows them all too well. In 1961, not long after that incident, Lena Washington and William McKinley Jackson, head of the Loudoun chapter of the NAACP, asked Smith and three other young African-Americans, including Roger Dodson, Clarence Grayson, and Smith’s longtime neighbor, Reverend William Swann, to stage a sit-in at the lunch counters of three establishments in Middleburg.
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This building on South Madison Street was once the Middleburg Pharmacy.
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