Join us for a book talk, presented by Larry Roeder, April 2, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Dirt Don’t Burn: A Black Community’s Struggle for Educational Equality Under Segregation

By Larry Roeder & Barry Harrelson

“Dirt Don’t Burn is the riveting story of the heroic and effective uphill struggle of the Black community of Loudoun County, Virginia, and their friends to achieve quality equal education.”

This year's national theme for Black History Month is African Americans and the Arts. Many in our local communities have accomplished their goal of writing a book or painting a picture. Some display their talents through verse and song.

AAHA invites you to join us for a variety of shows and movies showcasing the talents of African Americans throughout history.

This year's national theme for Black History Month is African Americans and the Arts. Many in our local communities have accomplished their goal of writing a book or painting a picture. Some display their talents through verse and song.

AAHA invites you to join us for a variety of shows and movies showcasing the talents of African Americans throughout history.

This year's national theme for Black History Month is African Americans and the Arts. Many in our local communities have accomplished their goal of writing a book or painting a picture. Some display their talents through verse and song.

AAHA invites you to join us for a variety of shows and movies showcasing the talents of African Americans throughout history.

Please join authors Harry F. Burroughs, III & David M. Kelly for a discussion on their book about a small Gullah community in Harris Neck, GA, the ongoing injustices of the federal government and the people’s continuing fight for the return of their land.

At AAHA
4243 Loudoun Avenue
The Plains, VA 20198

AAHA will be Hosting Jim Hall for a Meet the Author, for his new book, Condemned for Love in Old Virginia. Tuesday September 19th at 1:00 PM in the AAHA Auditorium. After the talk, he will be available for signing books as well.

AAHA - Auditorium
4243 Loudoun Avenue
The Plains, VA 20198

August 8, 2023 @ 7pm Path Foundation Building, 321 Walker Dr. Warrenton, Va

Has your landlord treated you unfairly?

Do you have questions about eviction, foreclosure, or your legal rights as a tenant?

Have you experienced housing discrimination based on race, color, sex, national origin, disability, age, or family status?

Than you should Please join Legal Aid Works & the NAACP Fauquier Branch for a FREE Fair Housing/Tenant’s Rights Forum

This will be a hybrid event - You may join us in person or online.

Register here: KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Fair Housing/Tenants' Rights Forum | NAACP Fauquier (naacpfauquiercounty.org)

For more information, contact the Fauquier NAACP Housing Committee at: naacpfauquierco.housing@gmail.com

Walk-Ins Welcome

Located At:
Afro-American Historical Association Of Fauquier County
4243 Loudoun Avenue
The Plains VA 20198

We are happy to announce that during the summer, on four Tuesdays, we are planning to show movies in our auditorium, on AAHA’s lower level, designed for youth but interesting to adults as well. Our interns, Madison Canterbury and Emily Nolan, are selecting stories from our archives that tell of African Americans and events of history under the theme of African American Resistance, which is the 2023 theme for African American History month. Their lengths vary from 30-60 minutes.

Admission is free, but donations are always welcome.

MOVIES AND TIMES
(Please note, times may vary)

Movie Name: Princess and the Frog (G)
(SHOWING AUGUST 1ST @ 11AM)
Age Group: 6+ Summary: (1h 37 mins)

A hardworking young woman in New Orleans, Louisiana works to open and own her own restaurant. She is faced with challenges and resistances when another individual tries to buy the restaurant before her. With the help of some southern friends she is able to comeback from the many struggles.

Movie Name: Hidden Figures (PG)
(SHOWING AUGUST 1ST @ 1PM)
Age Group: 8+ Summary: (2h 7 mins)

African American women take on jobs at NASA. They overcome the challenges and resistance from higher officials. They are each placed in male dominated fields where they succeed. This leads to them getting a man to space while also breaking down some racial and gender lines.

Hosted by Emily Nolan & Madison Canterbury

Located At:
Afro-American Historical Association Of Fauquier County
4243 Loudoun Avenue
The Plains VA 20198

We are happy to announce that during the summer, on four Tuesdays, we are planning to show movies in our auditorium, on AAHA’s lower level, designed for youth but interesting to adults as well. Our interns, Madison Canterbury and Emily Nolan, are selecting stories from our archives that tell of African Americans and events of history under the theme of African American Resistance, which is the 2023 theme for African American History month. Their lengths vary from 30-60 minutes.

Admission is free, but donations are always welcome.

MOVIES AND TIMES
(Please note, times may vary)

Movie Name: March On! The Day My Brother Martin Changed The World (G)
(SHOWING JULY 25TH @ 11AM)
Age Group: 5-10 Summary: (69 mins)

March On: Dr. King’s sister tells her brothers story about when he was going to deliver his “I Have a Dream” speech. Rosa: Tells the story about Rosa Park and her refusal to give up her seat and the impact it on history and other people. Martin’s Big Words: Examines Martin Luther King Jr.’s life and the famous words that allowed him to help other African Americans. Henry’s Freedom Box: Explains the story behind Henry Box Brown and how he was mailed to freedom.

Movie Name: The March: The Story of the Greatest March in American History (PG)
(SHOWING JULY 25TH @ 1PM)
Age Group: 10+ Summary: (60 mins)

This documentary examines the March on Washington and the individuals and events behind this historical event. Furthermore, it documents the fundraising and organizing moves made by Martin Luther King Jr. and others.

Hosted by Emily Nolan & Madison Canterbury

Located At:
Afro-American Historical Association Of Fauquier County
4243 Loudoun Avenue
The Plains VA 20198

We are happy to announce that during the summer, on four Tuesdays, we are planning to show movies in our auditorium, on AAHA’s lower level, designed for youth but interesting to adults as well. Our interns, Madison Canterbury and Emily Nolan, are selecting stories from our archives that tell of African Americans and events of history under the theme of African American Resistance, which is the 2023 theme for African American History month. Their lengths vary from 30-60 minutes.

Admission is free, but donations are always welcome.

MOVIES AND TIMES
(Please note, times may vary)

Movie Name: Ruby Bridges (PG)
(SHOWING JULY 18TH @ 11 AM)
Age Group: 9+ Summary: (1h 30 mins)

A six-year-old girl is picked to start integration at a private school in New Orleans, Louisiana. With the help of individuals, family, and religion she overcomes the resistances of certain individuals that are against the integration of whites and African Americans.

Movie Name: The Rosa Parks Story (PG)
(SHOWING JULY 18TH @ 1PM)
Age Group: 8+ Summary: (1h 34mins)

Rosa Parks was raised during Jim Crow’s “separate but equal” law. However, after Rosa marries her husband, she is faced with resistances when she tries to register to vote. She goes to work for the NAACP where she raises questions on African Americans position in society which led to a historical event for the civil rights movement.

Hosted by Emily Nolan & Madison Canterbury

Located At:
Afro-American Historical Association Of Fauquier County
4243 Loudoun Avenue
The Plains VA 20198

We are happy to announce that during the summer, on four Tuesdays, we are planning to show movies in our auditorium, on AAHA’s lower level, designed for youth but interesting to adults as well. Our interns, Madison Canterbury and Emily Nolan, are selecting stories from our archives that tell of African Americans and events of history under the theme of African American Resistance, which is the 2023 theme for African American History month. Their lengths vary from 30-60 minutes.

Admission is free, but donations are always welcome.

MOVIES AND TIMES
(Please note, times may vary)

Movie Name: Harriet Tubman (PG)
(SHOWING JULY 11TH @ 11AM)
Age Group: 8-11 Summary: (45 mins)

Harriet Tubman was a slave in the south that escaped the farm with the help of the Underground Railroad. She helped more than 300 slaves flee from the south to the north. She was called “The Moses of her people.”

Movie Name: The Journey of Henry Box Brown (G)
(SHOWING JULY 11TH @ 11:50AM)
Age Group: 5-8 Summary: (30 mins)

This movie looks at the slave Henry Box Brown that shipped himself in a box to freedom in the north. Henry meets some animal friends that help him get to freedom along his dangerous journey.

Movie Name: Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (PG)
(SHOWING JULY 11TH @ 1pm)
Age Group: 12+ Summary: (60 mins)

This documentary examines William Still an unheralded hero of the Underground Railroad. He kept detailed describes of the events that occurred in his life and many of the escaped slaves. His goal was to reunite families that were separated by slavery after reuniting with his own long-lost brother.

Movie Name: The Good River (PG-13+)
(SHOWING JULY 11 TH @ 2PM)
Age Group: 13+ Summary: (20 mins)

An enslaved man in the 1850s seeks freedom by passing through the Ohio River as part of the Underground Railroad. He must fight between the self-preservation and a life of self-sacrifice.

Hosted By Emily Nolan & Madison Canterbury

Next in the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Lecture Series:

Symposium: “Slavery in the German Settlement”
Sunday, July 9th at 2:00 p.m.
St. James United Church of Christ,
10 East Broad Way, Lovettsville

On Sunday, July 9, in lieu of our customary lecture, the Lovettsville Historical Society will present instead a Symposium with a speaker and a panel of local historians, on the topic of “Slavery in the German Settlement.”

Eirik Harteis, a history teacher from Taylorstown and a member of the Lovettsville Historical Society’s Advisory Board, has for some years been examining the history of the neighboring 1810 Stoutsenburger Farm. He became perplexed why a Revolutionary War veteran living in the German Settlement would own ten slaves by the time he died in 1837--in the heart of the Jacksonian Era.

Traditionally seen as opposed to slavery--and Unionist to boot--the section of Loudoun County in which the Stoutsenburger Farm was located, raised a Union cavalry unit, the Independent Loudoun Rangers, during the Civil War, and overwhelmingly voted for Virginia to remain in the Union.

Eirik’s subsequent research has looked at the County records to discover clues as to what extent slavery impacted the German-settled area of northern Loudoun. Does our traditional view hold up when the available statistical evidence is studied? What factors would come to play on the degree that slavery did or did not hold sway over economic, social, and political life in northern Loudoun in the years before the Civil War?

After Eirik presents, we have assembled a panel of local historians to respond to Eirik’s findings: Wynne Saffer, Donna Bohannon, John and/or Bronwen Souders, Dennis Frye, and Lori Kimball, with Rich Gillespie as moderator, will provide historical and regional context, raise some of their own questions, and lead our attendees in a discussion of the antebellum German Settlement on the eve of Civil War.

This should be an intriguing symposium, and we hope you will be able to participate. As always, no reservations are required. Admission is by voluntary donation—we simply “pass the hat.” This program will not be live-streamed on Zoom.

Book Event - Rice Theatre - Highland School - Warrenton, Va

June 17, 2003 - 6:00 PM

Please Join authors Harry F. Burroughs, III & David M. Kelly for a discussion on their book about a small Gullah community in Harris Neck, GA, the ongoing injustices of the federal government and the people’s continuing fight for the return of their land.

For more information contact:

Harry F. Burroughs III — hburroughs1977@gmail.com
Dave Kelly — dkelly91@hotmail.com

Juneteenth 2023: Saturday, June 17, 2023, 11:00 AM to 8:00 PM (Rain or Shine)

Theme: Community, Unity, and Commitment

11:00-5:00 PM Juneteenth Program, 60+ Vendors, Non-Profits, Food Vendors, Children’s Activities

5:00-8:00 PM Mini-Concert, Food Vendors

Fauquier County’s Third Annual Juneteenth community commemoration will take place on Saturday, June 17 from 11 a.m to 8 p.m. on Main street in Warrenton VA.

We will honor and celebrate Juneteenth, as well as highlight the African culture and experience. The day will include an African dance troupe, spoken word, contests to highlight Juneteenth’s history, a presentation of Black History through the lens of the Afro American Historical Association (AAHA) of Fauquier County, highlighting community events along with recognition of local heroes. Products, goods, and services will be provided by vendors and other local businesses.

Celebrate with us through sponsorship, hosting a vendor booth, becoming a contestant, or volunteering.

Find out more at Fauquier County Juneteenth (fauquierjuneteenth.com)

We greet you with grace and peace, believing that you and your congregation are navigating these perilous times with strong faith.

Here we are again!--The Religious Affairs Committee, one essential part of the NAACP-Fauquier County Branch, sharing with you vital information and inviting you to join us in a most urgent Call to Prayer in support of Rev. Swann and the First Asheville Baptist church.  As you know, First Ashville Church was vandalized and this family of believers are in need of our prayers and our loving support.  We will pray, as well, for the perpetrators of this most unfortunate and seriously damaging act they have committed. 

Article of vandalization can be read on Fauquier Now - NEWS --Marshall woman charges in First Asheville Baptist vandalism; charges pending against two juveniles, etc.

Please join with us on Saturday, May 27 from 12:30pm to 1:30pm at the church (see flyer below for location).  We will pray mightily for this congregation and encourage them by our presence. 

For more information, please go to naacpfauquiercounty.org or text the cell phone number below.

See you Saturday afternoon.  Thanks soooo much!

Dr. Ethel Canty Bothuel, Chair
NAACP—Religious Affairs Committee
7059-B Fauquier County Branch (Virginia)
Mobile/Direct: 301-520-8983

A SPECIAL PRESENTATION

Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County (AAHA)

4243 Loudoun Avenue

Wednesday, May 3, 2023

10:00 a.m.

During the past several months, The Morgantown School Project has been fortunate to have the support of Marshall’s Mountainside Montessori School.

Recently, staff and students of the Mountainside Adolescent Program have worked diligently at the Site removing artifacts from the school’s crawl space. Please visit our website to view pieces of history and see a few of the pieces of the collection, www.morgantownschoolproject.org.

In a special program at AAHA, a display of the over 100 pieces of history will be displayed in the Museum aisle dedicated to Fauquier’s historical African American Churches and Schools. Mountainside students will select one or two of the items that they found most interesting. Perhaps those who attended Morgantown School might recognize an item or a memory from their days attending there.

Please join us in person or on-line on Wednesday, May 3rd at 10:00 a.m.

Thank you for your support!

A recording is available here: "Our apologies for the intermittent connectivity issues.”

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Oak Spring Garden Foundation has teamed up with the Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University to present an evening of poetry and conversation. As the nation’s first academic center dedicated to Black poetry, Furious Flower’s mission is to celebrate, share, and preserve the legacy of Black poets and poetry. Join us for a reception and reading with Furious Flower’s leadership, the two award-winning poets Lauren K. Alleyne (executive director) and L. Renée (assistant director), who will share poems of place, belonging, and engagement with natural world.

Poets:

Lauren K. Alleyne is the author of two collections of poetry, Difficult Fruit (2014) and Honeyfish (2019); two chapbooks, Dawn in the Kaatskills (2008) and (Un)Becoming Gretel (2022); as well as co-editor of Furious Flower: Seeding the Future of African American Poetry (2020). Her work has appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, The Atlantic, Ms. Muse, Tin House, and The Caribbean Writer, among others. Her most recent honors include a 2020 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Poetry, the longlist for the 2020 Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, and the shortlist for the 2020 Library of Virginia Literary Awards. Born and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Alleyne currently resides in Harrisonburg, VA, where she is a professor of English at James Madison University, and the executive director of the Furious Flower Poetry Center.

L. Renée is a poet and nonfiction writer living in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she works as Assistant Director of Furious Flower Poetry Center and Assistant Professor of English at James Madison University. Nominated for Best New Poets, Best of the Net and two Pushcart Prizes, her work has been published in Obsidian, Tin House Online, Poetry Northwest, the minnesota review, and elsewhere. The granddaughter of proud Black Appalachians, she won the international 2022 Rattle Poetry Prize and Appalachian Review’s Denny C. Plattner Award, among others. A recipient of fellowships from Cave Canem Foundation and the Watering Hole, L. Renée also holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Indiana University, where she was Nonfiction Editor of the Indiana Review, and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University, where she was a Joseph Pulitzer II and Edith Moore Fellow. She believes in Black joy, her ancestors, wondering, and wandering.

You can sign up for the event here!

Series: AAHA Virtual Genealogy & Local History
Date: March 28, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Topic: Taylor and Jones Family Genealogy
Speaker: Christine Lewis

Christine Taylor Lewis was born in Warrenton, VA to Horace and Christine Jones Taylor and grew up in the Hayti (Haiti) community. She attended Rosenwald Elementary School from 1954 to 1961 and graduated from William C. Taylor High School in 1966. She received a Bachelor of Social Work degree from the University of Detroit. After retirement in 2013 from Prince William County Government, she became a community volunteer and later joined the AAHA staff. Christine is married to Rev. Philip Lewis, Pastor of the Mt. Pisgah Baptist Church, Upperville, VA. They have two sons and their wives, eight grandchildren and five great grandchildren. Christine enjoys Christian fellowship, genealogy research, traveling, sewing, working puzzles and spending time with her family.

Host: Karen Hughes White

Karen Hughes White was born, raised, and now resides in Fauquier County, Virginia. She is a co-founder and President of the AAHA (Afro American Historical Association of Fauquier County).

A recording of this event can be viewed here.

“Investigating the Evidence” with Judy G. Russell, CG, CGL, March 18, 2023, 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.

Sponsored by the Fairfax Genealogical Society, this event will be via Zoom and also onsite at the
Dunn Loring Fire Hall
2148 Gallows Road
Dunn Loring, Virginia.

The first session, “When Worlds Collide: Resolving Conflicts in Genealogical Research”, will be an interactive workshop. The second session, on negative evidence, will begin after lunch at 12:30. A nationally known lecturer, Russell holds Certified Genealogist and Certified Genealogical Lecturer credentials from the Board for Certification of Genealogists, and writes a blog, The Legal Genealogist. Visit her website at www.legalgenealogist.com.

The price is $35 for FxGS members, $40 for nonmembers, and $12 for optional box lunch. Register here Investigating the Evidence with Judy Russell Tickets, Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 10:00 AM | Eventbrite. For further information see www.fxgs.org.

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
6:00 PM
Screening of the Acclaimed Documentary, The Levys of Monticello
The Hill School, Middleburg, VA
This is a free event, hosted by the Middleburg Library Advisory Board
 

The Middleburg Library Advisory Board is pleased to announce the second event in its new Local Book and Author Series: a screening of the award-winning new documentary film, The Levys of Monticello. The event also will include a question-and-answer session following the screening with Middleburg author Marc Leepson, who wrote Saving Monticello, the book that inspired the film.

The screening will take place at 6:00 PM on Tuesday, March 14, 2023, at the Sheila C. Johnson Performing Arts Center at the Hill School in Middleburg. It is free and open to the public.

“This will be a special treat for the Middleburg community,” said MLAB President Kathryn Baran. “The Levys of Monticello tells a little-known but important and fascinating story of historic preservation, architectural history, and Jewish-American history. We’re particularly pleased that it’s based on Marc Leepson’s book, Saving Monticello, in which he recounts the Levy family’s 89-year stewardship of Thomas Jefferson’s ‘Essay in Architecture.’ And that folks will be able to hear Marc and bring home an autographed copy of his great book.”

U.S. Navy officer Uriah Phillips Levy—a hero of the War of 1812 who became the Navy’s first Jewish commodore—and his nephew Jefferson Monroe Levy owned Monticello from 1834-1923, and saved it from ruin on two occasions. The documentary, which has received several film festival awards, includes many historic images and commentary by Susan Stein, Monticello’s long-time curator; Niya Bates, the former senior fellow of African American history at Monticello; and Jonathan Sarna, the nation’s foremost Jewish-American history scholar.

Journalist and historian Marc Leepson is a Chair Emeritus and Advisory Board member of the Virginia Piedmont Heritage Area. He is the author of nine books, including Saving Monticello, Flag: An American Biography, and biographies of the Marquis de Lafayette, Francis Scott Key, and Army Staff Sgt. Barry Sadler. He will be signing copies of Saving Monticello before and after the screening.

The Middleburg Library Advisory Board gratefully acknowledges the generosity of The Hill School in helping to bring this film to Middleburg.

Today our mission of teaching our comprehensive Heritage Area history is as important as ever and we are working diligently to keep our communities involved with our incredible living museum.  Please consider supporting our mission with a donation or membership to help ensure our ability to continue protecting our extraordinary landscape and its vast history for future generations.

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Series: AAHA Virtual Genealogy & Local History
Date: March 14, 2023
Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Topic: A Woman Who Tells Our Stories
Speaker: Barbara Newman

Deaconess Barbara Jean Newman was born in Winchester, VA to Emily and George Caison. She was educated in Fauquier County schools and attended NOVA Community College in Loudoun County where she studied Computer Systems Architecture and Programming. She is a member of the Mt. Morris Baptist Church of Hume, VA where she serves as Deaconess. She resides in Warrenton, VA with her husband of 46 years, Deacon David Newman. They have three children: the Rev. Evan Newman (Joie) and twin daughters, Andrea Newman and Candice Cradle (Marvin). She also has twin grandsons, Marcellus and Demetrius Newman. Deaconess Newman (aka BJ) uses her creative gifts to write and produce Christian plays and direct a dance group of Christian ladies called the “Grannies for Christ.”

Host: AAHA’s Community Outreach Coordinator Christine Taylor Lewis. Christine is a daughter of Fauquier County spending much of her youth in Warrenton’s Haiti community and is a graduate of William C. Taylor High School and the University of Detroit.

A recording of this event can be viewed here.

Sunday, March 12, 2023
2:00 PM
John Randolph of Roanoke
Llangollen Farm, Upperville, VA
$65 for VPHA Members / $75 for non-members

Join Judge David Johnson, author of John Randolph of Roanoke and Irreconcilable Founders: Spencer Roane, John Marshall, and the Nature of America’s Constitutional Republic, as we explore the life of early Virginian John Randolph and his contributions to politics as a southern lawmaker.
 

The program will be followed by a Q & A and beer & wine reception.

Click here for tickets

String Fever Sunday, March 5, 2023 5:00 p.m.

Grace Episcopal Church The Plains, VA

Reception to follow
Tickets available at: paragonphilharmonia.org
Adult - $25
College Student - $15
18 & Under - FREE!
Livestream - $10 donation