Several topics are covered: Origins and Recruitment, Organization and Treatment, Virginia USCT Regiments, Racial Atrocities, After the War, and a Timeline
A film documentary completed by Anne Woo May 31,2021 as a senior project as a student at BASIS Independent School in Fairfax County
In 1872 Alfred Odrick, a former slave and carpenter, purchased land and built a house on the south side of…
The National Guard's history is also replete with examples of African Americans who served with distinction. A notable example existed within the three National Guard regiments that fought in World War I under the U.S. Army's 93rd Division: the…
The story of the desegregation of Fairfax County libraries and libraries in neighboring jurisdictions is chronicled. The struggle by Vienna residents like William McKinley Carter is described as black residents seek equal access to libraries. …
“A Virginia Village Goes to War - Falls Church during the Civil War;” pages 234-235, by Bradley E. Gernard. The author described in specific detail four communities of freedmen:
Baptist Hill
Tinner hill –
Southgate subdivision
Gravel Bank
This work is a reprint of a work published in 1899 in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. The first chapters trace “Negro” participation in America’s wars, from the era of the American Revolution through the Civil War and the…
A dead end street in Fairfax City, School Street, had been home to three generations of African Americans, when the families are pressured to sell their homes to developers.
On July 17, 1944, explosions killed 320 sailors, Coast Guard personnel, and civilians at the Port Chicago naval facility in California. Black sailors, who refused to go back to work, were charged with mutiny. During the court martial trial, the…
Manassas Industrial School began as a residential school for black children. In 1938, Fairfax, Fauquier, and Prince William counties established a regional high school on the campus. Fairfax County Black students, who wanted to attend high school…
Willa Brown was a high school teacher. a licensed aviator, a licensed aircraft mechanic, and one of the founders of the National Airmen’s Association that was dedicated to increase African American participation in aviation. AOPA Pilot
This booklet describes the growth of the local NAACP branch from 1915, when it was organized in response to a segregation ordinance of the Falls Church Town Council, until the 1960s when racial barriers began to fall.
The first section of this book covers Afro-Virginian domestic life and labor and the attitude that slaves and free blacks encountered outside and within the legal system. The second section examines wartime civilian and military…
A compilation of information about Fairfax County residents who were recorded on the 1860 census. One can search by family name and find 1860 slave census records and 1861 personal property tax lists which include the number of slaves owned.
The Willard community was a black and white community that stretched between Fairfax and Loudoun counties. In September 1958, the federal government sent condemnation notifications to 87 landowners to purchase the property for what would become…
