Learn about our annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Black History Month, Juneteenth and Kwanzaa programs and upcoming events.

Watch lectures, concerts and more about Alexandria's African American history and culture.

The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project (ACRP) is a city-wide initiative dedicated to helping Alexandria understand its history of racial terror hate crimes and to work toward creating a welcoming community bound by equity and inclusion. Attend programs, read newsletters, and become involved.

The Black History Museum at 902 Wythe Street is located in the 1940 Robert H. Robinson Library. The Museum uses its large collection to inspire the public to explore the integral relationship between African American history and other cultural traditions, through exhibits and public programs.

The Watson Reading Room currently has over 3,000 holdings documenting African American history and is available for research by appointment.

The Freedom House Museum at 1315 Duke Street honors the lives and experiences of the enslaved and free Black people who lived in and were trafficked through Alexandria.

The Park on Holland Lane is open dawn to dusk. Sculptures throughout the park commemorate historic African American Neighborhoods and the people known and unknown buried in the historic Black Baptist Cemetery on this site. 

The Memorial at 1001 S. Washington Street is open dawn to dusk. The Memorial is on the site of a cemetery that served as the burial place for about 1,800 African Americans who fled to Alexandria to escape from bondage during the Civil War.

Alexandria's African American history is told through an online StoryMap and can be experienced in-home on your computer or on your smartphone as you walk the trails along the Potomac River.

Alexandria's African American history includes a vibrant Black population dating to the 18th century, one of the largest slave trading operations, and America's first Sit-Down Strike in the early days of the Civil Rights movement.

The Parker-Gray School provided African American children with comprehensive education at a time when segregation and lack of resources, teachers, and facilities threatened what is now understood as a fundamental right of every child.

Explore these books, brochures and lesson plans to learn more about the history of Alexandria's African American community.

The Alexandria Oral History Center is a community-driven collaboration to document and preserve the memories and stories of Alexandria. Search the Online Oral History Archive for transcriptions about the African American community, and learn how you can share your story.

After the Civil War, a neighborhood known as The Fort grew up around Fort Ward, one of the Union forts built as part of the Defenses of Washington. Learn about the history and archaeology, and about the Interpretive Plan for Fort Ward Park that will include the history of this community.

"Out of the Attic" has appeared in the Alexandria Times newspaper since 2007. Search the archives to learn more about the African American community.