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7 Abolitionist organize First Baptist Church of Falls Church on Broad Street.
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Rev. John D. Read (Columbia lay preacher) and daughter Betsy start a Sabbath School and day school for black Virginians.
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Rev. John Read and Jacob Jackson, an African American friend, are captured by Mosby's guerillas. Rev. Read is killed and Jacob Jackson survives to return to Falls Church and share what has happened.
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Second Baptist Church is formed with a Black congregation separating from Galloway Methodist.
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The African-American section of Falls Church, from Tinner Hill to Arlington Boulevard, was given to Fairfax County. (Today this is Hillwood Avenue, Annandale Road, to Route 50).
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VA General Assembly voted for rights to allow segregation laws.
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Dr. Edwin Bancroft Henderson and Joseph Tinner organize the Colored Citizens Protective League. They were successful through letter writing to the Town Council and W.E.B. DuBois, to start a NAACP chapter, and prevent the law from being enforced.
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Lead by Henderson and Tinner the African-Americans of Falls Church fight for access and opportunity.
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The VA General Assembly voted to nullify the segregation laws.
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The Falls Church chapter of the NAACP is founded.
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Mary Elizabeth Neves hired as Minster of Music.
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Fight for a larger segregated elementary school.
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Fight for door-to-door postal service.
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Fight for public sanitary sewers and water
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The first 3 black children attended a Falls Church integrated school.
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Fight for street lights
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First integrated Girl Scout and Cub Scout troops allowed
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While not enforced since 1917, the racial residential segregation law is officially repealed.