David Clarke's house in Mount Pleasant, January 1980

ID: 4194 ~ Source: Star Collection, DC Public Library, © Washington Post

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - David A. Clarke, Legislating for Social Justice

David Clarke's house in Mount Pleasant, January 1980

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - David A. Clarke, Legislating for Social Justice

Civil Rights Tour: Civic Activism - David A. Clarke, Legislating for Social Justice

In an interview with the Washington Post in 1990, longtime Ward 1 Councilmember David A. Clarke (1943-1997) described the lasting impact of his childhood discovery that as a DC resident he could not become a Congressional page since there was no…