Tag: Contrabands and Freedmen Cemetery

Your Views: Remembering Lillie Finklea

To the editor: Alexandria has just lost one of its most noteworthy citizens of the last 40 years, Lillie Finklea. During her long life, Lillie...

Activist Lillie Finklea dies at 83

By Olivia Anderson | [email protected] Lillie Finklea, an activist and cemetery preservationist, died on Dec. 27. She was 83. Finklea was known across the community...

Genealogist traces lives and histories of African American families

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] Char McCargo Bah did not learn about Alexandria’s Black history until she was 30. “We were taking this Black history tour,...