Reverend Cyrus Franklin Carter was born enslaved in 1815 in Port-as-Prince, Haiti. When he was a young child, his family was relocated to Lancaster County, Virginia, where he resided until enslaved people were emancipated during the Civil War. Along…
Lillian S. Blackwell, 85, a civil rights activist in Fairfax County who successfully sued to ban segregation of public accommodations in Virginia, died of an aneurysm May 10 at Fairfax Hospital. She lived in Vienna.
