Events

In October 1864, a contingent of Confederate John S. Mosby’s raiders entered Falls Church to steal horses. A member of the Home Guard sounded an alarm alerting Falls Church residents and the Union pickets about the presence of the raiders. During the…

In 1935 at least two juries were established in Fairfax County with African American members. This was significant because Blacks were usually excluded from serving on juries in Virginia. Press reports indicated that these were the first African…

On the evening of August 21–22, 1831, an enslaved preacher and self-styled prophet named Nat Turner launched the deadliest slave revolt in the history of the United States.

Lynching involves the extralegal punishment of perceived wrongdoing by a mob. Lynching became pervasive in the American South late in the nineteenth century and, at its height, from 1880 to 1930, killed at least eighty-six men in Virginia, all but…

Known to some as the country's “second Independence Day,” Juneteenth celebrates the freedom of enslaved people in the United States at the end of the Civil War. For more than 150 years, African American communities across the country have observed…

Nearly ten thousand African Americans marched in silence in New York City on July 28, 1917. Participants organized in protest of riots, lynching and other violence against Blacks.

Organized by the NAACP Included are digital images of (1) the flyer distributed by the NAACP several days before the 1917 Silent Protest parade, organized to protest lynchings and other violence against blacks, especially the East St. Louis race…

On May 1, 1865, freed slaves in Charleston, S.C. honored the graves of Union soldiers.