Raphael Urciolo owned ten properties along U Street NW, including this building at 14th and U (now the site of the Reeves Center) that he rented to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Raphael G. Urciolo Residence: 4215 Argyle Terrace NW

This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Raphael G. Urciolo Residence: 4215 Argyle Terrace NW
Civil Rights Tour: Raphael G. Urciolo Residence: 4215 Argyle Terrace NW
“I would prefer to sell to the colored man because he has a so much harder time getting a house.”