Tag: civil rights
Your Views: Time for a Justice Black museum
To the editor:
For many years, Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black lived on Lee Street in Alexandria. A distinguished jurist, Black shaped the unanimous school desegregation decision and championed...
The history of the Johnson Memorial Pool
By Mark Eaton | [email protected]
This year marks the 70th anniversary of the 1952 dedication of Alexandria’s Johnson Memorial Pool. Named in honor of two...
Your Views: The complexity of civil rights
To the editor:
The Alexandria Times’ June 25 story, “Kickstarting a conversation,” on Jaqueline Tucker’s brief tenure as city hall’s equity officer presented a one-sided...
Your Views: The conundrum of dueling constitutions
To the editor:
Regarding Paul Taylor’s letter, “A colorblind approach is not racist,” in the March 12 Alexandria Times: The problem underlying all our civil...
Delving into data on lawsuits filed against the city
By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected]
T.C. lights. The Hugo Black House. Ask most Alexandrians, and they’ll be able to recite the details of these controversial,...
Alexandria resident Carletha “Nana” West turns 107
By Missy Schrott | [email protected]
1912. The year Titanic struck an iceberg and sank in the Atlantic Ocean. The year Woodrow Wilson was elected president....
My View, Jack Lichtenstein, Col., U.S. Army (Ret): Morris L. Murray’s...
By Jack Lichtenstein
Your tributes to Samuel W. Tucker in your editorial “Remembering Samuel Tucker, a great Alexandrian” and Out of the Attic, “Samuel Tucker’s...
Our View: Remembering Samuel Tucker, a great Alexandrian
The year was 1939. Franklin Roosevelt was President of the United States. World War II started in Europe. Baseball great Lou Gehrig retired after...
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...
Our View: Compromise on T.C. lights
History is not inherently good or bad. In Alexandria, we rightly celebrate our storied colonial era, preserve the cobblestone streets that remain and continue...
