The same year, Warren County built Criser High School (1-12) for black children.

The school was initially proposed by Chuck Leadman, business agent of the local branch of the Textile Workers Union of America.

Leadman described Front Royal as a racial "utopia" free of violence, although the local white population fired live ammunition at a black church when its pastor opposed the project.

When the Textile Workers Union international learned of Leadman's project, they froze the local's assets and seized the donations.

Grants to a "nonprofit, nonsectarian private school", even segregation academies, were upheld by the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.