MIDDLETOWN — Front Royal native and a key figure in the integration of Warren County High School in 1959, Betty Kilby Baldwin will give a presentation alongside her cousin, Phoebe Kilby, Saturday at Laurel Ridge Community College.

Focused on family connection, reconciliation, and reparation, “Reaching Across the Racial Divide” will be held from 1-3 p.m. in the Carl and Emily Thompson Conference Center. It will also be available for streaming.

The women met in 2007 after Kilby came across Baldwin’s book, “Wit, Will and Walls.” In the 2002 book, Baldwin explores her family’s history, including her father’s upbringing in “inter-generational semi-slavery” on a Rappahannock County farm and his efforts to lead his family toward educational opportunities. She also described “kitchen babies,” wh

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