View of Barry Farm Dwellings in 1944 shortly after the first residents moved in.

ID: 3740 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Barry Farm Dwellings
View of Barry Farm Dwellings in 1944 shortly after the first residents moved in.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Barry Farm Dwellings

Barry Farm Dwellings was just over 20 years old in 1966, and already falling apart when a Washington Post reporter interviewed residents for her article, "Hope Ebbs and Tempers Rise: Underground Poor Fight Funds Cuts." Driven by poor living…