John Davis (second from left) and other community leaders listen to DC's police chief speak at a meeting on police brutality at Metropolitan Baptist Church, September 1941

ID: 4203 ~ Source: Courtesy DC Public Library, Washingtoniana Division

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - John P. Davis and Equal Education Now!

John Davis (second from left) and other community leaders listen to DC's police chief speak at a meeting on police brutality at Metropolitan Baptist Church, September 1941

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Education - John P. Davis and Equal Education Now!

Civil Rights Tour: Education - John P. Davis and Equal Education Now!

In February 1944 former National Negro Congress leader John P. Davis attempted to enroll his five-year-old son Michael at Noyes Elementary School in his Brookland neighborhood and was turned away. Although approximately 100 elementary school-aged…