Experience African American history firsthand at the Tinner Hill Historic Park in Falls Church, Virginia. This Park is the site of what was home to Joseph and Elizabeth Tinner, the couple who fought segregation laws after the borders of neighboring…
The Road to Freedom Tour Guide highlights Virginia's Civil War-era African American experience, en-couraging visitors and Virginians alike to uncover these little-known stories of strife, growth, community, and more. Fairfax County has two sites on…
10209 Main Street, Fairfax, VA 22030
703-385-8414
The Fairfax Museum and Visitor Center is located between Washington Dulles International Airport and Washington, D.C., in the heart of Northern Virginia. The museum and visitor center is housed in…
8100 Fordson Road Alexandria, VA 22306
Gum Springs is the oldest African American Community in Fairfax County, formally established in 1833. West Ford, a former slave, founded the community after being freed. The Gum Springs Historical Society and…
6840 Beulah St., Alexandria, VA 22310
Freed slaves built this one room schoolhouse in the early 1880's. It served the black children of Franconia until 1932 as the Laurel Grove Colored School. The school survives as the only remaining African…
8641 Lewinsville Road McLean, Virginia 22102
Historic Pleasant Grove is a community landmark in McLean, Virginia, built by and for African and Native Americans in the late 19th century.
Frances K. Moore Memorial Museum Named for a descendant of the…
1315 Duke Street Alexandria, Virginia
The Freedom House Museum was once part of the headquarters for the largest domestic slave-trading firm in the United States, Franklin and Armfield. Through first-person accounts of enslaved men and women and…
902 Wythe Street, Alexandria, Virginia 22314
Originally the segregated library for Alexandria's African American residents, the museum documents the local and national history, culture and contributions of Black America.
1411 W Street SE Washington, DC 20020
Frederick Douglass spent his life fighting for justice and equality. Born into slavery in 1818, he escaped as a young man and became a leading voice in the abolitionist movement. People everywhere still find…
A museum that seeks to understand American history through the lens of the African American experience.
1400 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20560
Examples: Reading Resources (Students and educators can read through African American history with…
Executive Order 10925 was signed by President John F. Kennedy on March 6, 1961. It required government contractors to “take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and that employees are treated during employment, without regard…
The Virginia Constitutional Convention of 1901–1902 produced the Virginia Constitution of 1902 that resulted in disenfranchising large numbers of blacks and working-class whites. The 1902 Constitution remained in effect until July 1, 1971.
Included the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which prohibited interracial marriage Public Assemblages Act of 1926, which required all public meeting spaces to be strictly segregated; and a third act, passed in 1930, that defined as black a person who…
The investigative journalist and activist Ida B. Wells spearheaded the anti-lynching movement in the United States. Ida wrote A Red Record (1892), using mainstream white newspapers to document a resurgence of white mob violence, and finding that…
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…
