Group of children at Barry Farms Housing Development.

ID: 4849 ~ Source: Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress. ~ Creator: Photographer: Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc. ~ Date: April 1944.

This file appears in: Barry Farm Dwellings: In the 1960s, residents of the Barry Farm Dwellings in Anacostia created a hub of political activism through their homes, neighbors, and networks to advocate for their community’s needs.

Barry Farm Dwellings: In the 1960s, residents of the Barry Farm Dwellings in Anacostia created a hub of political activism through their homes, neighbors, and networks to advocate for their community’s needs.

By The DC Historic Sites team

“You control our lives…[Y]ou sit up here on the Hill and talk about building subways and bridges and parking lots for the tourists and people from suburbia…It’s time to talk about the people who live…