Aerial view of Langston Terrace, 1938

ID: 4012 ~ Source: Reprinted with permission of the DC Public Library, Star Collection, ©Washington Post

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings: 21st and Benning Road, NE

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings: 21st and Benning Road, NE

Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Langston Terrace Dwellings: 21st and Benning Road, NE

Langston Terrace Dwellings opened in 1938 as one of the nation’s earliest federally funded public housing projects for lower income residents and only the second one to be built for African Americans.…