Longtime activist and Statehood Party co-founder Julius Hobson is seen here urging people to vote in a 1968 school board run-off election

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Longtime activist and Statehood Party co-founder Julius Hobson is seen here urging people to vote in a 1968 school board run-off election
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Political Empowerment - DC Statehood Party

This manifesto, proclaimed at a March 1969 news conference, announced the formation of the DC Statehood Party Committee. With a multiracial membership that included Rev. Doug Moore of the Black United Front, Rev. Jesse Anderson of St. Patrick's…