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Out of the Attic: Samuel Tucker’s 1939 library sit-in

On Aug. 21, 1939, five young men walked in separately to the new Kate Waller Barrett Branch Library on Queen Street and asked for...

Budding nonprofit honors Alexandria women

By Luke Anderson | [email protected] This year marks the centennial of women’s right to vote thanks to the ratification of the 19th Constitutional Amendment, and...