Willie Hardy took over United Neighborhood Council, an antipoverty group, in 1966

ID: 4227 ~ Source: Star Collection, DC Public Library, © Washington Post

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Willie Hardy, "Uninvited Woman Guest"

Willie Hardy took over United Neighborhood Council, an antipoverty group, in 1966

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Willie Hardy, "Uninvited Woman Guest"

Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Willie Hardy, "Uninvited Woman Guest"

Activist and Ward 7 DC councilmember Willie J. Hardy (1922-2007), quoted above, lived most of her life around Marshall Heights, where, in the 1930s, her mother helped cut roads and haul water to the then-isolated, semi-rural Black community. Hardy…