Photo of the just-completed Hecht Company Store at 7th and F Streets, 1925

ID: 4606 ~ Source: Library of Congress (Prints and Photographs Division)
This file appears in: Civil Rights Site: Civic Activism - Hecht's Department Store
Photo of the just-completed Hecht Company Store at 7th and F Streets, 1925
This file appears in: Civil Rights Site: Civic Activism - Hecht's Department Store

Hecht’s was one of the largest department stores in the city for much of the 20th century. In the 1950s, it became a key site of protest in the battle to end discrimination against Black shoppers.Although a 1929 survey by the Black-owned Washington…