Editorial on the eviction situation surrounding the housing hygiene ordinance. After nearly two years since its implementation, newspapers like the Northern Virginia Sun who were proponents of the ordinance, and staunch supporters of the need for eviction start to call for a change in the approach to administering the code. They note the historic inability for urban renewal projects to address the need for building homes that keep residents in their neighborhoods and not be removed/move to new slums.

Notice to advertise upcoming County Board of Supervisors for voting on the proposed housing hygiene ordinance set in motion at the start of 1960. The notice was posted following a Board meeting on May 3rd, 1961 which set the date for June 14th, 1961.

Article on the beginning of the housing hygiene ordinance process. Outlines the goals of the ordinance that would be passed in 1961, and the study that was put in place to recognize the extent and conditions of the problem of substandard housing. The article lists the sites of interest including Gum Springs and its drainage problems being of key interest. Dr. Harold Kennedy makes the note that the bulk of substandard housing is actually white homeowners, contrary to the belief that the majority were Black homeowners. However this distorts the fact that the vast majority of white homeowners in Fairfax County were not owners of substandard housing while around 40% or more of Black homeowners were - displaying the disproportionate state of affairs and systemic experience of displacement in place for Black homeowners in Fairfax.

Article on the approval of the contract between the United Planning Organization and the SBMCAA by the Moon group's board of directors. The document provided for the work to improve the economic and social condition of the community (see text below), and find all qualified citizens of the community to fill available jobs in the program.

Article on the selection of the first heads of the Saunders B. Moon Community Action Association. The article provides the start date of the SBMCAA's work as June 1st, after their $70,000 grant by the Office of Economic Opportunity through the United Planning Organization.

Article on the passage of the Improvement Program and Conservation Plan for Gum Springs. The article notes the specific stakes Gum Springs residents held in bringing this plan forward due to their fears of rampant development "undermining the historic flavor of the Mount Vernon District area." This conservation plan gave residents a major say in how the development of the community would be carried out over the next three decades.

The Neighborhood Improvement Program and Conservation Plan created for Gum Springs in 1979. This plan allowed for the appropriation of funds towards Gum Springs in multiple areas to help update and improve the community in areas that had been continuous problems in the community through block grants, as well as creating a conservation plan that would help to improve and conserve the community. Adopted by the Board of Supervisors after insistence from the community itself and county stakeholders. This conservation plan gave residents a major say in how the development of the community would be carried out over the next three decades.

This book tells the history of Gum Springs from its creation by West Ford until the late 1980s at the time it was written. The book explores the challenges Gum Springs faced throughout the middle of the 20th century, and discusses the work by the community to always improve itself even in the face of these challenges.

Dissertation prepared by Judith Saunders Burton on Gum Springs' Black leadership structures, its impacts, successes and the community's challenges throughout its existence. Their focus covers both the educational structures and community action groups that helped to fight for housing, drainage, and resist displacement throughout the 20th century. Their focus on Black leadership demonstrates the power of Gum Springs to resist displacement, and the power of Black geographies.

Registration form the Mount Vernon Enterprise Lodge, and the Pride of Fairfax County Lodges. The Lodge is also known as Odd Fellows Hall and is located in the heart of Gum Springs. The registration form provides the history of the Odd Fellows and Odd Fellows Hall's place in Gum Springs as a site of community action, organization and resistance for the growth and maintenance of Gum Springs.

Plan for Route 1's expansion to as wide as 13 lanes that follows along Gum Springs southwest border, and stops at Sherwood Hall Lane which intersects into Gum Springs. Gum Springs' multiple Civic Associations and many Gum Springs residents have been opposed to the continual expansions throughout the previous three decades. This most recent expansion plan was put in place with no discussions occurring between Gum Springs residents and the County/VDOT, and will potentially remove multiple homes in Gum Springs.

Further coverage on Gum Springs' interactions with continued expansions to Route 1 that encroach on their community, and risks destroying Black homes in the community. The proposed expansion to Route 1 would take the road all the way to 13 lanes for a stretch ending at the intersection of Route 1 and Sherwood Hall Lane (running through Gum Springs).

Article on Gum Springs, their then upcoming Juneteenth celebration, the communities thoughts on the recent Holland Court development, and coming expansions to Route 1.

Coverage on the expansion of the Inova Mount Vernon Hospital to the south of Gum Springs that required the expansion of Route 1. Queenie Cox, the New Gum Springs Civic Association, and residents of Gum Springs' concerns about the expansion of Route 1 were left out of the discussion. Expansion of Route 1 has continued to be a problem that the NGSCA, and Gum Springs community have been against. There remains a lack of re-installments to the Gum Springs conservation plan, ending in 2004, that had protected their community from expansion/construction without their input

Coverage on the continuing loss of funds for community programs. The author points out that in the coming year the Saunders B. Moon Community Action Association would lose close to $75,000 - nearly 30% of their funds, while the Housing Development Corporation side of SBM had already lost 50% of their funding. Continual conservative shifts to cut federal funding greatly reenforced the problems of slow violence by seeking to cut funding to public works and public projects particularly for communities like Gum Springs that had used these to greatly build up their community.

Article on the impacts of the Nixon administrations freeze on low-income housing programs, and the Office of Economic Opportunity that had assisted Gum Springs during the late 1960s and the early 1970s. These Community Action Programs had been utilized by Gum Springs for funding to build up their community.

Report on the breaking of ground on a cooperative housing subdivision in Gum Springs. Five landowners, with the help of the Saunders B. Moon association, pooled their land holdings to create a subdivision that would contain 28 four-to-five-bedroom homes for those currently living in Gum Springs including those still living in shacks, or without water or sewage facilities. This action of pooling land resources and breaking it into a subdivision was used in the late 19th century by recently freed Black residents of Gum Springs that moved to the burgeoning community after the Civil War. A reprisal of this tactic of claiming space and place nearly 100 years later in Gum Springs shows the versatility of means and measures to maintain and build their community even in the face of ongoing crises that had not been addressed in the continual lack of housing, drainage, and sewerage.

Article on the approval of a United Planning Organization (a Washington D.C. based poverty program) grant for Gum Springs. Later approved for $67,000 through the LBJ administration's Office of Economic Opportunity the UPO and this grant was part of the broader Community Action Program that created the Saunders B. Moon organization. These grants headed off by the community itself demonstrate the power of community organization against displacement in place through self-reliance and resistance.

Coverage of the Board of Supervisors vote to create a drainage ditch for the Gum Springs area. While this drainage ditch was much needed for the area, it did little in the long term to create change for the flooding problems. As pointed out in the article State and County engineers "doubted the ditch would do the job." Lack of effective aid against Gum Springs' problems presents one of the clearest forms of slow violence, by way of failing to fund or plan the correct aid necessary in a Black geography the Board of Supervisors were complicit in the housing problems and eviction crises that followed.

Report from the Northern Virginia Sun on their view of housing hygiene law and its problems regarding evictions which would be discussed at the Board of Supervisors meeting which would take place later that week. In the 6 years of discussing the ordinance their view has changed from ardent support to clear criticisms of its ability to change the problems of substandard homes and improving living conditions for low-income homes in Fairfax.

Follow up article to Reddig's article on 5/16/1966. The Board of Supervisors acted to implement automatic appeals for all eviction cases. This change meant that all potential evictions would be sent to the housing and hygiene appeals board, where previously only cases of extreme hardship wold be sent to the appeals board. While Gum Springs community members and leaders sought for a moratorium or a scrapping of the ordinance all together, their fight for change provided relief in the form of automatic appeals.

Article on the Board of Supervisors meeting that would take place later in the week of publication. The Board would hear the recently empowered Saunbers B. Moon Community Action Association (by the LBJ administration's Community Action Plan) and Gum Springs residents' case for halting the eviction clause of the housing hygiene code and resisting displacement.

Letter to the editor in response to a previous letter on 10/9/1965 by the League of Women Voters of Fairfax who had been champions for low-income housing, and had worked to push for federally funded public housing aid in Gum Springs in the early 1960s. Mrs. Gilreath's letter in disagreement with the LWV's call for public housing shows the lack of recognition of the struggles facing poor Black geographies in Northern Virginia - in this case Gum Springs - and points to the framework of the myth of progress.