ALEXANDRIA, Va. – A huge grant that looks to preserve our history and honor the sacrifice and struggle of those who came before us is getting us uplifted. Before Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat in Montgomery, Alabama in 1955, and college students at North Carolina A&T boldly sat at “whites only” lunch counters in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, another impactful civil rights sit-in took place right here in the DMV in Alexandria, Virginia.