We talk to Nancy Noyes Silcox, a former school librarian who wrote a book for late elementary-school and middle-school students about the civil rights pioneer.
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Charlie Clark, a dogged chronicler of local life in Arlington, has died at the age of 70. He was known locally as the author of "Our Man in Arlington," a weekly column in the Falls Church News-Press, and as the author of several books on local history. His quickly declining health came as a surprise.
Learn about the pioneering patriots of World War II. In honor of Veterans Day, the Office of 55+ and Arlington Public Library invite you to a screening of Invisible Warriors: African American Woman in World War II, a documentary by historian and retired professor Gregory Cooke about the 600,000 African-American “Rosie the Riveters” who worked