No. Like the decision of Radford to name the building after a racist in 1967, the naming Fairfax high schools after Lee, Stuart and Woodson were also acts of defiance to the then growing civil rights movements and acts of enshrinement to the Lost Cause. Is it time to consider following Radford's example?
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Lee's mother died at Ravensworth. He spent his early years in Alexandria and his family also owned Clermont off what is now Franconia Road. As an army officer, Marshall lived on many posts. A VMI graduate, he was a Virgninian by choice. When Lee resigned his commission, he did so because he did not want to engage in combat with his fellow Virginians. Southerners often felt more loyal to th
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Mr. Woodson realized integration was inevitable - sort of like gay marriage today. He wasn't a seg, but he WAS a southerner. Like anyone else, he had definite biases. Click on the link to the remarks by B. Oswald Robinson above T. C. Williams, Superintendent of Alexandria City Schools actually fired a janitor who sought to enroll her children in integrated schools. say Wrote: -----------
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Your tax dollars at work: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/18/AR2010091802277_pf.html Fairfax County police spend big bucks in hopes of big breaks in betting cases By Tom Jackman Washington Post Staff Writer Saturday, September 18, 2010; 3:23 PM It's football season, and for millions of Americans that means betting season. Yes, that stomach-churning time of year
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Mr. Woodson was not enthusiastic about the Brown decision. Although a southerner (He was a graduate of William & Mary), he was not a segregationist. African American principal B. Oswald Robinson had this to say about working with Mr. Woodson: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/faculty_archives/principalship/r/155robinson.html
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Luther Jackson High School opened in 1954 (a few short months after the Brown decision) as the first high school for African American students in Fairfax County. Black students previously had communted to the District, Alexandria, or Prince william for their secondary education. Luther Jackson was NOT the first school constructed for blacks in the county. Several elementary schools such as Vie
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All you ever needed to know about Mr. Woodson . . . http://www.google.com/advanced_search?q=superintendent+++wilbur+OR+wilbert+%22tucker+woodson%22&hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&prmd=o
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If you truly do live there, Your rambling post is sufficient proof that Pretty Grim County is Ward 9 of the District of Columbia. Redsident - Is that how you spell your name? Re: National Harbor in PG County Posted by: PG C REDSIDENT () Date: September 17, 2010 06:25PM For all you ignorant people on here who are punks preferably the person who posted that picture of the Africans or Jamaica
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P G stands for pretty grim. Who would want to live there?
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I had one truly great teacher in FCPS. Mary Kay Garwood, grade four. She encouraged me to read and she inculcated a love of local and state history that continues today. That having been said, I had more losers than good ones. One teacher used to keep supplies in old malt liquor cans. He tossed a board across the room and hit a kid (me) with it. He was not disciplined. The Assistant Princi
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diz, Thanks. I am not sure where the Reston South Park & Ride lot is. Can you be a little more specific? dizbuster Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I found a few things on the place. It bordered > Lawyers Road and was located near what is now the > Reston South Park & Ride Lot. Didn't find anything > about Snake Den Lake. What was the sourc
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Where was the lodge? What is on its site today?
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The lakes appear on the 1962 aerial, but the 1949 shot shows what appears to be the convergence of two creeks. If there was a lake at that time, then it was very small. Lurker. Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Snake Den lake is where the South Lakes are now. > Snaked Den lake was divided into two lakes, Lake > Audubon and Lake Thoreau in Reston. The cr
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Barcroft Bible Church replaced Starlit. One-Way Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Almost one month to the day after Skyline Towers > collapsing, the tornado was on Sunday, April 1st, > 1973. I was at the indoor swimming pool at > Starlit (not sure what's there now) when it came > through, smashing most of the windows of the > indoor pool and taki
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This is the article where Holober said he wanted to go to Germany. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=151429982&sid=3&Fmt=10&clientId=1452&RQT=309&VName=HNP
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Charles Holober's mother was married to her uncle. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=119315825&sid=13&Fmt=10&clientId=1452&RQT=309&VName=HNP http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=213416312&sid=13&Fmt=10&clientId=1452&RQT=309&VName=HNP Are the buildings at the nudist colony still standing? http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=291501312&sid=13&Fmt=1
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I would like to know EXACTLY where it was. I have heard about its proximity to Snake Den Lake. Where was the lake? I went to http://www.historicaerials.com/ but could find nothing on the 1949 map which might have been the Lake. I thought the lake could have been renamed Lake Fairfax but it does not appear on the 1949 photos.
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I read on FACEBOOK that the Hokies were caught with their pants down. The game was butt ugly, for sure.
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Evan, You do have this option: http://www.gmu.edu/depts/police/complaint.htm . Good luck. GMU H.
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I am not a "kid toucher," just as Sean Lanigan is not one, either. Like Lanigan I know what it is like to be accused falsely of a loathsome crime. One's world gets turned upside down. Re: Centre Ridge PE teacher sexually assaults 12 year old girl new Posted by: cub scout () Date: September 10, 2010 04:50AM So THATS IT! GMUhokie is a fellow kid toucher. Thats why he has so much interest in
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I have wondered about the Amanda Perry situation. Employees on administrative leave are not permitted anywhere near their work station. They are required to remain at home or at a place where they can be reached easily. They are not supposed to work another job during their normal duty tour. I suspect that Amanda Perry took another job and she got caught at it. When I was on administrative l
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Plenty of wildlife at GMU . . . I once saw a wild turkey running across the softball field closest to University Drive. I saw a piebald deer (in a small herd) near the West Lot Circle. There is a fox den near the entrance to the intramural fields.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/08/AR2010090802731_pf.html Tom Jackman should return to book review writing class. Book chronicles history of Fairfax County Police Department By Tom Jackman Thursday, September 9, 2010; VA14 The complaints were coming in to the Fairfax County sheriff: Somebody needed to do something about traffic. The year was 1921. All of 20
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Spotting a team 17 points is not a formula for success. Throwing a pass on third down in what could be the last possession of the game doesn't make sense if the clock gets stopped. Hokies should have run on third down. If they make the first, the game is over. If they don't get the first, run the clock down on fourth and then punt.
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Does keeping these folks in jail at this point in their lives make sense? http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/09/07/AR2010090706514_pf.html
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In the cases cited, a police officer probably witnessed the violation. No cop is going to pass up the opportunity to issue a summons in such a situation. If a cop did not see jack pass a stopped school bus, then there is no need to worry. ITRADE Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ask the following what they thought: > > Searched for: Offense: STOPPED S
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Nothing is going to happen to you. She'll submit a report to the area office. It should end there. If a cop shows up at your door, don't lie. Just invoke the Fifth Amendment. The cops might pay attention to that intersection in the future if you or others behave similarly. jack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > can this bitch give me a ticket? so today I w
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Sources, please? : Hokie Football new Posted by: tommadison think again () Date: September 07, 2010 12:47PM I have trouble getting wrapped around the axle over Va Tech's alleged thugs and felons when the team they played last night has a 5% graduation rate (for all of its students) in in 4 years and a whopping 26% rate in 6 years. Yet Boise State sure spends the money on football. These gradua
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The latest on this case - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/crime-scene/fairfax/culosi-wrongful-death-trial-se.html
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The list is obsolete. Vicky O Armel is no longer on the force. ARMEL,VICKY O POLICE OFFICER II $69,159.38
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