Reston Black Focus was a social organization designed to help black people acclimate themselves to Reston Virginia post the civil rights movements of the 1960’s. They have served a critical role in Northern Virginia promoting Black Culture and encouraging the of the participation of African Americans in their local community as a form of social integration. Reston Black Focused was created to fill the need created by the Reston African American community as they saw themselves integrated into the “New Town” that was Reston Virginia. With Racial integration being a relatively new development Reston Black Focused tried to concentrate its effort in the fields of education, Black culture, civic participation and availability of employment for Black Reston residents. Reston Black Focus would do a lot of social outreach via newspapers and periodicals which would include the Washington Times, Reston Tribune, Reston Times, and the Globe Periodical.

The organization itself would have a positive effect on Reston and its African American residents. Reston Black Focus would go on to sponsor the Reston Black culture festival, which would portray African American art, music, literature, and culture in a general lens. The Festival would also go on to help raise scholarship funds for Black youths in the community and invite guest speakers like Reverent Jesse Jackson, who was a notable Civil Rights activist that marched with Martin Luther King. The positive role that Reston Black Focus played on the community can be seen in the large number of attendees to the Black Culture Festival many of which were white and in the generally positive views that local media gave to the organization. Overall Reston Black Focus wanted to integrate the Reston African American Community to the New Town, while trying to avoid a return to previous norms of racial and class segregation and promoting African American Culture.

During World War 2, the United States had issued a propaganda campign across the country to effectivly support the war effort while it had been recovering from the Great Depression. Maintained by the Office of War Information (OWI), a series of posters, films, and radio broadcasts were issued across the country focusing on different ways the American public can support and contriute such as, buying war bonds, preserving resources, enlisting for the war, suporting the war effort and encouraging patriotism.

Within the state of Virginia, they had experienced different outcomes from the varity of propaganda used. From the several practices propaganda focused on, similar and different outcomes were produced within Virginia. Because propaganda is recognized to have had such a large influence to the war effort for the United States, what were the impacts and results of propaganda in Virginia? 

Since the English arrival in Virginia, their relations with Native American or Indian tribes have been rooted in conflict. George Mason I and II contributed to this conflict. Though only two men in a larger scheme of land expansion that began before George Mason I arrived in Virginia, George Mason I and II contributed to the consistent removal of Indians from their land, as well as the overall decimation of their population. The removal of Indians from their land was achieved by a combined system of violence and law. This system was made possible by the growing number of English settlers, such as George Mason I, who contributed to the steady decline of the Indian population. 

The existing scholarship on George Mason I and George Mason II’s relations with Indian tribes of Virginia and Maryland is little to non-existent. However, there is research on George Mason the I and II, as well as research on Indian tribes of Virginia and Maryland, which have made it possible to synthesize these two topics.

Overall, historians have approached and interpreted this topic by synthesizing the relationships between European settlers and the Indian tribes of Virginia and Maryland. All of them discuss the issue of eradicating the Native Americans or Indians for land, while also synthesizing this idea with other issues, such as racism and slavery. This project will focus heavily on the idea that the removal of Indians from their land was achieved by a combined system of violence and law, of which the issues of racism and slavery were important factors, and how George Mason I and II contributed to the consistent removal of Indians from their land, as well as the overall decimation of their population by utilizing this system.

Official political parties weren't recognized until the creation of the current United States government, to mean the one established with the ratification of the US Constitution in 1789 and the election of the first president, George Washington. However, is it possible there were still political affiliations at the county level of governing, specifically in Fairfax County, Virginia? Did this affect how much or how little the justices of the peace had to sit on the court during the year?

Joseph Horrell's 1983 article, "George Mason and the Fairfax Court" talks chiefly on Mason's biographers' failure to sufficiently understand the effect Mason’s service to the County Court had on his life as well as Mason’s attendance (or lack thereof) at the court. However, he makes several references to phrases like “Alexandria merchants” and “planters.” In speaking about a petition George Mason wrote in 1782, Horrell says, “[...]Mason left no doubt in anyone's mind that it was the Alexandria faction that furnished the flagrant example.[...]” (429). It just isn’t the main subject of his research. Upon further research now, though, no more research has seemingly been done on either the topic of Mason’s attendance or the politics of the County Court since about the 1980s or 90s.

Calls for censorship of media in Fairfax Counties public library.