Sen. Hubert Humphrey (D-MN) spoke at All Souls on Jan. 15, 1950, at the start of a three-day Anti-Communist National Emergency Civil Rights Mobilization. Humphrey described Pres. Truman’s civil rights program as a weapon against Communism

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This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - All Souls Unitarian: 1500 Harvard Street NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - All Souls Unitarian: 1500 Harvard Street NW

Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - All Souls Unitarian: 1500 Harvard Street NW

All Souls Church—one of the few places in the city where mixed-race groups could meet—would emerge during the 1940s and 50s as an important center of the Civil Rights Movement in DC.