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Journalists chronicled the Desegregation of FCPS ...  as recorded in the following newspapers The Chicago Defender, The Fairfax Herald, The Northern Virginia Sun 

Letters and Other Documents Relating to the Desegregation of FCPS

Fairfax County Public Schools Alumni and Educators Share Memories of Desegregation

Rayfield Barber was the first Black student to integrate a FCPS public high school.
Joe and Sharon Parks integrated FCPS high schools. Joe attended Groveton…

Interviews of alumni who share their memories of attending segregated schools.

Luther Jackson High School
James Lee and Merrifield Elementary Schools
Manassas Industrial School

This dissertation includes information about the secondary education of African Americans prior to desegregation.

Videotape – Frying Pan Farm Park

Sound recording with interviews about Floris Colored School and African American Children’s education

The author shares the history of schools once in Fairfax County and now part of the City School system. The experiences of both teachers and students are described. The history of a Rosenwald schools is included.

Julius Rosenwald President of Sear and Roebuck helped provide funding to help the education of African American students. The Fairfax Rosenwald School was built in 1925-1926 on School Street. Rosenwald schools were educational facilities built with…