"…the injustice the civil rights movement was fighting against was the same injustice that was denying my city and me home rule."(David Clarke, Washington Post, Aug. 31, 1990)

Constructed in 1908 to serve as DC's city hall, this building at 1350 Pennsylvania Avenue was historically known as the District Building. It was re-christened in 1994 to honor John A. Wilson, a…

In a 1982 interview with a Washington Post reporter when she was 100 years old, longtime labor activist Rosina Corrothers Tucker recalled how her house at 1128 7th Street had been the center of…

In 1966, poet Gaston Neal—described as "one of the most epic voices to ever grace the District" and Howard University student activist "Baba" Don Freeman co-founded the New School of Afro-American…

The National Council of Negro Women's relocation of its headquarters in 1995 to Pennsylvania Avenue was fitting for a group that has been so enormously influential in advancing the economic well-being…

“…[A]ll education should be in the direction of overcoming the awful monsters of Jim Crow and other evils that stand in the way of freedom.”(Belford Lawson, 1947)

In mid-June 1919, a group of Navy Yard employees, all veterans of World War I, gathered during their lunch break and formed an all-Black unit of a newly established organization, the American Legion,…

“That was the whole point of the store…to have a space where Black people, whatever their political persuasions were, or maybe they didn’t have any political persuasions…could encounter ideas, could…

Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871-1951) represented Chicago’s South Side in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1929 to 1935. He was the first African American Congressman in the 20th century and the…

Statehood for the District of Columbia is a natural right which can no longer be denied and must be achieved by whatever means necessary by the people.