Will Mercer Cook

ID: 3618 ~ Source: Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University.
This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 122 V Street

Cook (center) with Langston Hughes (right) and Senegalese poet Papa Ibra Tall, ca. 1960.

This file appears in: Bloomingdale Tour: 122 V Street

By Prologue DC
Although some builders used racial covenants west of First Street when they began developing these houses in the 1900s, numerous black households occupied the 100 block of V Street by the 1930s,…