DC History Minutes
December 2008Learn about the home of Blanche Kelso Bruce, the first African American to serve a full term in the Senate.
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Charles Curtis was the highest ranking Native American political figure this nation has ever produced.
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Holy Rosary Church is a tangible and potent symbol of the many contributions Italian Americans have made to our Nation's Capital
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What downtown D.C. hotel housed Congress in 1814 after the British burned the Capitol?
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See Unity Park in Adams Morgan then and now!
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The Islamic Center of Washington was dedicated on June 28, 1957
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500 I Street, NW. Currently the Chinese Community Church, historians have only recently discovered who the architect was!
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1461 S Street, NW, home of Georgia Douglas Johnson,
local Harlem Renaissance-era poet and author
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary: Journalist, Abolitionist, Educator
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Washington Riots 1968
"The 1968 Washington Riots in History & Memory" "Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury," 38th Congress, 1st Session, Executive Document 42, House of Representatives, February 16, 1864. This document lists the names of the District’s former slaves and their owners, who were petitioning the government for compensation for the slaves freed as required by the Emancipation Act of April 16, 1862. The original document can be found in the Kiplinger Research Library at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. |
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