Per the 17 February 1941 Greensboro Daily News, when confronted with the drastic overcrowding of rural school buses for Black children, a Wilson County commissioner snapped that they were only “going to school in large numbers because of the novelty of the new school, but this will wear off in a month or two and when it does attendance will decrease.”

A month later, though:

Greensboro Daily News, 16 March 1941.