ECTC leaders Reginald Booker (third from left) and Sammie Abbott (second from right) joined Julius Hobson (with pipe), Charles Cassell (below Hobson) and some 200 other anti-freeway activists at an August 1969 City Council hearing.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Reginald Booker, Anti-freeway activist
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Reginald Booker, Anti-freeway activist
Civil Rights Tour: Protest - Reginald Booker, Anti-freeway activist
Reginald Booker (1941-2015) was propelled into activism by his family's displacement from southwest DC in the early 1950s, when he was a young teenager. They had recently moved to the city, where his mother worked a night job as a janitor on Capitol…