Over the years, we have awarded scholarships totaling approximately $20,000 to high school students. We have provided signage and historical research for four cemeteries, authored and published three books and numerous historical newspapers articles and essays. We have restored and preserved the c.1917 marker of Walker County’s first African American school to include a minimum of nine grades. We were the driving force to place Prince Hall Affiliated Chickamauga Masonic Lodge Hall #221 on the National Register of Historic Places and raise funding for the lodge restoration.

Our president is one of the founding members of the Marsh-Warthen-Clements House in LaFayette, and we assured the African American history of the house was part of the interpretation of the Marsh-Warthen-Clements House. We brought to Northwest Georgia its first Equal Justice Initiative Lynching Marker from the National Museum of Lynching to Walker County. In August 2020, we faced Covid-19 challenges by producing the television show with live Facebook streaming, Beverly’s Historical Moments as our educational outreach. We have partnered with the local County and City of LaFayette Government to organize an African American Museum and Memorial Park.

WCAAHAA is a 501c3 organization founded on May 21, 2000. Our mission is to educate ourselves and others, preserve and document the Appalachian African American history of Walker County Georgia. Also, we assist with highlighting the history and heritage of Appalachian African Americans of the Lookout Mountain Juridical Circuit: Walker, Dade, Chattooga, and Catoosa Counties.