Tag: brown v. board of education
Filling in the Blanks with Dr. Gregory Hutchings Ed.D.: Let’s celebrate...
It takes more than a month to share the history of Black people who continue to make history daily, and much work is still...
The day two sisters proved T.C. Williams wrong
By Jim McElhatton
Sixty years ago next week, the namesake of Alexandria’s only public high school – former superintendent Thomas Chambliss “T.C.” Williams – appeared...
Filling in the Blanks with Dr. Gregory Hutchings: Fresh starts require...
The new year is always a time of fresh starts and resolutions. But it is impossible to have those fresh starts and new beginnings...
A school cook’s forgotten civil rights stand
By Jim McElhatton
In the fall of 1958, longtime Alexandria schools superintendent Thomas Chambliss “T.C.” Williams took the unusual step of firing a black school...
ACPS chooses name for West End elementary school
After releasing its shortlist of possible names earlier this month, the Alexandria City School Board has chosen an Alexandrian civil rights activist and longtime...
