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Link to oral history blog post.

Oral History: Gertrude “Trudy” Ensign

May 12, 2022

Intelligence analyst for the United States Army during World War II.

The Henry Louis Holmes Library, 1940-1949

February 17, 2022

Created by Arlington’s Black residents, to serve their community during segregation.

Oral History: Rayfield Barber

February 10, 2022

A lifetime at the center of Arlington’s airport history.

The Activists who Desegregated Arlington’s Movie Theaters

February 2, 2022

“The Price of a Ticket at the Cost of Your Conscience”

Oral History: Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., in Arlington

January 14, 2022

In the days leading up to the March on Washington, civil rights activists from across the country, including Dr. King, stayed at Lomax Fellowship Hall in Green Valley.

Link to Shirlington WETA post

WETA’s Arlington History: “It is the Programming that Counts”

December 21, 2021

An iconic institution, capturing and broadcasting the news for more than a half-century.

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