Black Communities of Fairfax

Etta Willson is a longtime genealogist and poetic writer about her family and her ancestors. Rita Colbert is the Fairfax City Black community photo acquisitions coordinator, receiving photo albums after friends and family pass away. Rondia Prescott is vice-president of the Jermantown Cemetery Preservation Society and Fairfax County Public Schools SAC program assistant director. All three were longtime residents of the Black Fairfax City communities, now gone. Linneall Naylor, president of the Jermantown Cemetery Preservation Society and FCPS teacher, was raised in D.C. but returned to find her roots. She is a well-regarded family history speaker. Jenee Lindner is a Fairfax County History commissioner and longtime resident of Fairfax County and gives Fairfax City/County historical lectures. She has a master's degree from Stanford University in education and history. She has also found family roots in these communities.