On Tinner Hill, an early rural branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded after local African Americans organized in 1915 as the Colored Citizens Protective League to fight a proposed Falls Church ordinance that would segregate black and white residential sections. In 1918, the league became the Falls Church and Vicinity Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Meeting in members' homes around Tinner Hill, the branch focused on public education, voter registration, travel regulations, and equal access to public services, and strategies it developed were effectively used in other localities throughout the Civil Rights era.