This empty lot next to the new Lucy Diggs Slowe School was cited in this photo's caption as the "only recreation area for negro children in the area," July 1949.

ID: 4207 ~ Source: Star Collection, DC Public Library, © Washington Post

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

This empty lot next to the new Lucy Diggs Slowe School was cited in this photo's caption as the "only recreation area for negro children in the area," July 1949.

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…