Ledroit Park

Author : Canden Schwantes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439676417

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LeDroit Park by Canden Schwantes Pdf

Built as a gated, all-white community, in the 20th century LeDroit Park became the premier neighborhood of Washington, DC's Black elite. LeDroit Park's famed arch offers entry into a tree-lined neighborhood with unique architecture and a captivating history. Developed in 1873 by a Howard University trustee who refused to sell lots to Black Washingtonians, the neighborhood was designed to be both town and country, one of DC's earliest suburbs. Not long after the fences of this gated community were torn down, the demographics changed as members of the Black elite of Washington moved there. During the 20th century it was home to educators and activists, military men and artists, doctors and scientists - both white and Black, men and women. Local historian and guide Canden Schwantes leads you through this neighborhood, small in size but large in history, to discover the stories of the people who called LeDroit Park home.

Author : Shilpi Malinowski
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439673904

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Shaw, LeDroit Park & Bloomingdale in Washington, D.C. by Shilpi Malinowski Pdf

Let residents tell you what it's been like to live in D.C.'s most gentrified neighborhood. When Gretchen Wharton came to Shaw in 1946, the houses were full of families that looked like hers: lower-income, African American, two parents with kids. The sidewalks were full of children playing. When Leroy Thorpe moved in in the 1980s, the same streets were dense with drug markets. When John Lucier found a deal on a house in Shaw in 2002, he found himself moving into one of four occupied homes on his block. Every morning, he waited by himself on the empty platform of the newly opened metro station. When Preetha Iyengar became pregnant with her first child in 2016, she jumped into a seller's market to buy a rowhouse in the area. Journalist and Shaw resident Shilpi Malinowski explores the complexities of the many stories of belonging in the District's most dynamic neighborhood.

Author : National Register of Historic Places
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 628 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0471143456

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African American Historic Places by National Register of Historic Places Pdf

Culled from the records of the National Register of Historic Places, a roster of all types of significant properties across the United States, African American Historic Places includes over 800 places in 42 states and two U.S. territories that have played a role in black American history. Banks, cemeteries, clubs, colleges, forts, homes, hospitals, schools, and shops are but a few of the types of sites explored in this volume, which is an invaluable reference guide for researchers, historians, preservationists, and anyone interested in African American culture. Also included are eight insightful essays on the African American experience, from migration to the role of women, from the Harlem Renaissance to the Civil Rights Movement. The authors represent academia, museums, historic preservation, and politics, and utilize the listed properties to vividly illustrate the role of communities and women, the forces of migration, the influence of the arts and heritage preservation, and the struggles for freedom and civil rights. Together they lead to a better understanding of the contributions of African Americans to American history. They illustrate the events and people, the designs and achievements that define African American history. And they pay powerful tribute to the spirit of black America.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UVA:X002310658

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LeDroit Park Conserved by Anonim Pdf

Author : Canden Schwantes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467151627

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LeDroit Park: A History & Guide by Canden Schwantes Pdf

Built as a gated, all-white community, in the 20th century LeDroit Park became the premier neighborhood of Washington, DC's Black elite. LeDroit Park's famed arch offers entry into a tree-lined neighborhood with unique architecture and a captivating history. Developed in 1873 by a Howard University trustee who refused to sell lots to Black Washingtonians, the neighborhood was designed to be both town and country, one of DC's earliest suburbs. Not long after the fences of this gated community were torn down, the demographics changed as members of the Black elite of Washington moved there. During the 20th century it was home to educators and activists, military men and artists, doctors and scientists - both white and Black, men and women. Local historian and guide Canden Schwantes leads you through this neighborhood, small in size but large in history, to discover the stories of the people who called LeDroit Park home.

Author : Archie Morris III D.P.A.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781728304212

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Up from Slavery; an Unfinished Journey by Archie Morris III D.P.A. Pdf

For a period of eighty-five years, the M Street / Dunbar High School was an academically elite, all-black public high school in Washington DC. As far back as 1899, its students came in first in citywide tests given in both black and white schools. Over this eighty-five-year span, approximately 80 percent of M Street / Dunbar’s graduates went on to college even though most Americans, white or black, did not attend college at all. Faculty and students were mutually respectful to one another, and disruptions in the classroom were not tolerated. Yet in this era of best practices, this public high school has received virtually no attention in the literature or in policy considerations for inner-city education. The Dunbar High School today, with its new building and athletic facilities, is just another ghetto school with abysmal standards and low test score results despite the District of Columbia’s record of having some of the country’s highest levels of money spent per pupil. The purpose of this study is to explore the history of a high school that was successful in teaching black children from low-income families and to determine if the learning model employed there could be successful in a modern inner-city public education environment.

Author : Chris Myers Asch,George Derek Musgrove
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469635873

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Chocolate City by Chris Myers Asch,George Derek Musgrove Pdf

Monumental in scope and vividly detailed, Chocolate City tells the tumultuous, four-century story of race and democracy in our nation's capital. Emblematic of the ongoing tensions between America's expansive democratic promises and its enduring racial realities, Washington often has served as a national battleground for contentious issues, including slavery, segregation, civil rights, the drug war, and gentrification. But D.C. is more than just a seat of government, and authors Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove also highlight the city's rich history of local activism as Washingtonians of all races have struggled to make their voices heard in an undemocratic city where residents lack full political rights. Tracing D.C.'s massive transformations--from a sparsely inhabited plantation society into a diverse metropolis, from a center of the slave trade to the nation's first black-majority city, from "Chocolate City" to "Latte City--Asch and Musgrove offer an engaging narrative peppered with unforgettable characters, a history of deep racial division but also one of hope, resilience, and interracial cooperation.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2384 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : United States
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022051150

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Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 1999 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1606 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015031652749

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Hearings by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia Pdf

Author : John J. Protopappas,Judith Meany
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781588343208

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Washington on Foot, Fifth Edition by John J. Protopappas,Judith Meany Pdf

The best way to see—really see—any city is on foot. The perennial favorite Washington on Foot has been completely revised and updated to offer 24 walking tours of Washington's neighborhoods. Familiar monuments and museums are all here, side-by-side with lesser-known historic sites and storied residential neighborhoods. Washington on Foot offers history, culture, architecture, urban planning, and more. It's the complete city in a tidy package and the only "outdoor" Washington guidebook needed. Ideal not only for visitors but for locals who truly want to get to know their city. The updated fifth edition of this essential guide features user-friendly maps, architectural illustrations, historical and culture information, and much more.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Business and Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Home rule
ISBN : MINN:31951D010842031

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Housing in D.C. by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Business and Commerce Pdf

Considers. S. 2331 and H.R. 10079, to provide for repair by D.C., at owner's expense, of buildings violating D.C. housing regulations, and to make tenants evicted from unsafe and unsanitary buildings in D.C. eligible for relocation payments. S. 3549, to amend provisions of the Act establishing a code of law for D.C., approved Mar. 3, 1901, relating to landlords and tenants. S. 3558, to require the publication of names of owners of rental property in D.C. which is used for residential purposes.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Business and Commerce
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Building laws
ISBN : LOC:00172005391

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Housing in the District of Columbia by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia. Subcommittee on Business and Commerce Pdf

Considers. S. 2331 and H.R. 10079, to provide for repair by D.C., at owner's expense, of buildings violating D.C. housing regulations, and to make tenants evicted from unsafe and unsanitary buildings in D.C. eligible for relocation payments. S. 3549, to amend provisions of the Act establishing a code of law for D.C., approved Mar. 3, 1901, relating to landlords and tenants. S. 3558, to require the publication of names of owners of rental property in D.C. which is used for residential purposes.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021063537

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Housing in the District of Columbia by United States. Congress. Senate. District of Columbia Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1606 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Legislative hearings
ISBN : UCAL:B3566157

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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on the District of Columbia by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia Pdf

Author : William Bonstra,Judith Meany
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781588347381

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Washington on Foot, Sixth Edition Revised and Expanded by William Bonstra,Judith Meany Pdf

An essential walking tour guide to one of the most walkable and historic cities in the US, perfect for first-time visitors and longtime residents alike This updated 6th edition of the perennial favorite Washington on Foot features 24 user-friendly maps, including new content on the Wharf, the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture, H Street NE, and the Brookland/Catholic University neighborhood. With architectural illustrations and fascinating information on the city's history and culture, Washington on Foot makes touring DC (and its neighboring Old Town Alexandria and Takoma Park) easy, entertaining, and educational. The book guides readers on how to best appreciate all the city has to offer, from familiar monuments and museums to hidden gems and lesser-known historic sites and neighborhoods. Some exciting stops include: The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception US Botanic Garden Dumbarton Oaks National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden Friendship Firehouse Mexican Cultural Institute Old Georgetown Incinerator U Street NW There's no better way to experience the history and culture of the nation's capital than to walk through it and catch details you might miss otherwise. Washington on Foot highlights those details, large and small, to make for an unbeatable DC experience.