ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A huge grant that looks to preserve our history and honor the sacrifice and struggle of those who came before us is getting us uplifted. Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat ...

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Inside the walls of this Alexandria Library, there is no shortage of stories. But for one woman who was born and raised here, they're more than just stories. "Because I know that ...

This video is no longer available. Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the summer of 1939, an event unfolded in Alexandria, Virginia, that represents a fight for educational access and freedom that ...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black men ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (7News) — Samuel W. Tucker Elementary School in Alexandria, Virginia has provided education to hundreds of young students each year, but did you know the story behind Samuel Tucker ...

Five men were arrested at the Alexandria Library on Queen Street on Aug. 21, 1939, because they defied the exclusion of black people. (Courtesy Alexandria Black History Museum) The 81st anniversary of ...

Libraries had not been a big part of the civil rights movement but that changed in Alexandria, VA. On the morning of August 21, 1939 five young African American men entered the segregated public ...

They say you should never ask a witness a question you don’t know the answer to, and attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker certainly knew what the answer should be when he faced two police officers in an ...

Throughout Black History Month, Alexandria offers a range of activities including a Manumission Tour Company Black History bus tour and film screenings of African American cinematic classics, the just ...