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1801- 1908 Describes social conditions, customs, Supreme Court Cases.

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The church was founded in 1866 by Cyrus Carter, a Haitian immigrant, as the First Baptist Church Lincolnville. The church building was erected on property donated by Carter who had purchased the land from General John S. Crocker. It was renamed First…

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Camp Wadsworth was located on the property of Commander James W. Cooke that includes today’s Madison of McLean townhouse development, and the nearby property of Lewis Means, part of today’s McLean Central Park.

Historic African American community Springdale has been a refuge for African Americans, refugees, and immigrants. The community was originally settled in the 1940s when Blacks left the South and moved to Washington, DC to find jobs. Residents…

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Mary Ellen Henderson Biography: A Life of Making Differences, Big, and Small

Nellie Henderson was an educator and community activist. She wrote a report when learning that 90 percent of all funding for Fairfax County Schools went to white…

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The story of the escape of enslaved Ellick.

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Educating Freedman During Reconstruction in Fairfax County

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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.

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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…

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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

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Mr. Holland’s life was dedicated to improving the lives of county residents, especially African Americans.

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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.

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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.

In 1869 Andrew Lee, an African American, purchased 20 acres of land in the Frying Pan area from Ann Keeler. In 1891 he transferred 3/4 of an acre of the land to his son, Edward Lee. Edward built this house on his parcel of land. His father's house…

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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…

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In 1968, Cooktown was still home to an estimated 15-20 families. Among the 15 dwellings there was one with a septic tank and indoor plumbing. There was no gas, water or sewer service. There were seven homes with electricity, four with telephones. …

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A Black community existed in Dunn Loring after the Civil War along Haney Lane, where Kilmer Middle School is located, and in the area west of what today is the Dunn Loring Volunteer Fire Station 13 at 2148 Gallows Road. That land was owned by George…

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In 1867, African Americans built Galloway United Methodist Church and established the historic cemetery. (Note: A church history states that in 1862 the Methodists acquired the property.) Baptists and Methodists worshipped together before…

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First Baptist Church of Vienna (FBCV), founded in 1867, is the first and oldest church in Vienna, Virginia, founded by several African Americans working on a Vienna farm owned by Major O.E. Hine.

Seeing their desire to hold religious services, in…

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