Lloyd "Tony" Lewis

Lloyd “Tony” Lewis is documented in the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia’s centennial history of its Church Schools as the first Black student admitted to any school in the CSDV system — entering 1000 Saint Stephens Road Place 1000 Saint Stephens Road Upper School (grades 9–12) of St. Stephen's & St. Agnes School, occupying the Saint Stephens Road campus opened in January 1957 by St. Stephen's School for Boys. In 1961 the school … (then St. Stephen’s School for Boys) in September 1961 ^[1] Source 1 Episcopal Diocese of Virginia: Church Schools Celebrate 100 Years Article .

The 1961 admission predates the desegregation of T.C. Williams High School (Alexandria’s first Black students entered in 1965) by four years, and predates the integration of any of the diocese’s other schools — St. Catherine’s in Richmond, St. Christopher’s in Richmond, and Stuart Hall in Staunton — by five or more years.

Beyond the bare fact of his admission, the public-record details of Tony Lewis’s time at St. Stephen’s, his career, and his life are not extensively published. This entry serves to preserve the documented fact that he integrated St. Stephen’s, with the expectation that additional details — secured from the SSSAS archives, the Episcopal Diocese, or his family — will fill out the page over time. If you have records or first-person memories you can share, please contribute a correction.