Members of the Columbia Heights Boys Club play checkers at All Souls, 1955

ID: 3724 ~ Source: Courtesy of All Souls Church, Unitarian
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - All Souls Unitarian
Members of the Columbia Heights Boys Club play checkers at All Souls, 1955
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - All Souls Unitarian

All Souls Church, originally an all-white congregation, was founded at Judiciary Square in 1821; it moved to 16th and Harvard streets in 1924.  During the 1940s and 50s under the leadership of Reverend A. Powell Davies (1944-1957), the church came…