The Alexandria Community Remembrance Project has a student Remembrance Club at Alexandria City High School. Students who attended the pilgrimage to Montgomery, Ala. in 2022 established the club upon their return. Since then, ACRP has learned that the multigenerational aspect of our community project is our most cherished feature. In order to continue to offer our youth programming, in 2025-26 we launched a series of field trips that explore Alexandria’s rich African American history. We have refined that program for 2026-27 to offer four field trips and an opportunity to showcase what they learned and compete for a cash award.

The mission of the Remembrance Student Club is twofold. First, to deepen our young people’s understanding of our local shared history - from enslavement to civil rights activism in Alexandria. Second, to ensure young people feel empowered and are provided opportunities to become leaders in social justice, public history, and community advocacy.

1749-1860: Living the Paradox in Alexandria

Thursday, October 22, 2026
How did the “Free” and Enslaved live in the midst of the revolution then the domestic slave trade?

• Alexandria as the epicenter of the domestic slave trade.
• Slavery and “Freedom” in Alexandria, D.C. (1790-1847).
• Reaction to a growing Free Black population & demise of freedom

Community Connection with the Urban League, City Councilman.

1860-1865 Slavery to Emancipation

Thursday, November 19, 2026
What did freedom actually require after slavery?

• Self-Emancipation & the Refugee Crisis
• Building Upon Freedom – Churches, Schools, Neighborhoods
• The Freedmen’s Bureau

Community Connection: A Contraband Cemetery descendent, Pastor of Beulah Church.

1865-1902 Journey to Citizenship & the Fight to Keep it

Thursday, January 21, 2027
What happens when people gain citizenship on paper, but others refuse to accept their equality?

• Building Community Power
• Federal Government & Reconstruction
• From Freedmen to Citizens: Voting and holding office in Alexand
• The Second Founding
• The Pivot
• Racial Terror
• Disenfranchisement & Segregation

Community Connection: Relation to a member of the Convention; Descendent of a lynching victim.

1900-2000 Challenging Segregation & Fighting for Civil Rights

Thursday, March 18, 2027
If political power has been restricted and segregation codified, how does the Black community organize to challenge Jim Crow?

• Samuel Tucker and the 1939 Library Sit-In
• Charles Houston, F.H.M Murray, and the Niagara Movement
• School Segregation, the Secret Seven, and the Fight for a High School
• Civil Rights Heroes and Alexandria’s Hall of Fame

Community Connection: relatives of the Secret Seven, an Alexandrian who integrated ACPS, Alexandria’s Director of Libraries.

EJI organized and judged a Racial Justice Essay Contest with ACRP and Alexandria City Public Schools, in 2023.