Tag: integration
Historic marker placed at GW
By Olivia Anderson | [email protected]
Last Saturday, the George Washington High School Alumni Association dedicated a Virginia Historic Marker on the front campus of George...
Your Views: City schools integrated in the 1960s
To the editor:
I am writing to correct some historical errors in the letter submitted by Samantha Ahdoot and Heather Jelks, “Eulogy for the Witness...
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...
My View: I was there when James Lomax broke the color...
By Philip Brinkman
Your recent feature article about James Lomax, “The homeless man who made civil rights history,” brought back memories of Alexandria during those...
The homeless man who made Alexandria civil rights history
By Jim McElhatton | Email Jim
For years, James Lomax spent his afternoons on the same curb across from an Old Town church that serves...
Letter to the editor: Actions of T.C. Williams were reprehensible
To the editor:
Dino Drudi argues in his letter, “High school should keep the name T.C. Williams,” in the March 29 Alexandria Times that city...
Letter to the Editor: High school should keep the name T.C....
To the editor:
I appreciate your editorial’s suggestion (“Should Alexandria's high school bear the name T.C. Williams?”) to change the name of Alexandria’s high school...
Our View: What’s in a name?
Last week’s Alexandria Times contained a front page story about a courageous black woman named Blois Hundley, who in 1958 was fired from her...
