On Sept. 22, 1963, one week after four young girls were killed in a church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) organized a protest march of over 10,000 from All Souls Church on Meridian Hill to Lafayette Square.

ID: 4182 ~ Source: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

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.