W.C. Taylor High School: A Legacy including full interviews with each participant, full documentary film, and a behind the scenes documentary for the Mason Film Lab, provided by Giovanna Chesler.

Join AAHA at Fauquier County’s 4th annual Juneteenth Festival in Old Town Warrenton.

To find out more visit the Fauquier Juneteenth website at www.fauquierjuneteenth.com

Join us for a book talk presented by Evelyn Randy Ruffin on June 11, 2024 at 1:00 PM

Patriots, Priests, and Rebels: A Virginia Family and America’s History

By Evelyn Randy Ruffin

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.