Event Details
In the Northern Virginia suburbs, racial covenants in property
Event Details
In the Northern Virginia suburbs, racial covenants in property deeds were one of the ways segregated neighborhoods were created in Fairfax County from the early 1900s until they were declared null in 1968. Dr. Moon and other researchers are uncovering and documenting these covenants and other segregationist tools in order to educate residents about this difficult history.
This discussion draws from their recent online report Documenting Exclusion and Resilience in NoVA (https://documentingexclusion.org/). The report and interactive map document the history of racial covenants barring Blacks and others not of the “Caucasian Race” from owning property in Northern Virginia subdivisions. These deed restrictions, dating mainly from the 1930s and 1940s were nullified by the Fair Housing Act of 1968.
During this event, you’ll get a chance to dive into the details of a covenant for a subdivision in Hybla Valley and discuss how it impacted the neighborhood.
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This event took place in person on Tuesday, August 27 @ 7pm:
August 27, 2024 | 7pm-8:30pm | FREE
Location: Sherwood Regional Library – First Floor Community Room
2501 Sherwood Hall Ln, Alexandria, VA 22306
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Speaker’s Bio:
Dr. Krystyn Moon is a professor of History and American Studies at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Her teaching and research focuses on nineteenth- and twentieth-century American history, and she has worked on several public history projects in our region. These include the following: “Finding the Fort: African American History and Memory at Fort Ward Historic Park,” a report on a historic neighborhood that Alexandria annexed from Fairfax County in 1952; “Immigrant Alexandria: Past, Present and Future,” an oral history project with post 1965-immigrants and refugees funded by Virginia Humanities; and “Documenting Exclusion and Resilience,” a website dedicated to recording racially restrictive covenants in Northern Virginia and the responses by various marginalized communities. Finally, she is the author of the forthcoming book, Proximity to Power: Rethinking Race and Place in Northern Virginia, which will be published with UNC Press in spring 2025.
Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
Location
Sherwood Hall Library
2501 Sherwood Hall Ln.