did you know that Massachusetts Senator Edward Brooke lived in Bloomingdale?

See these tweets:

Senator Brooke. #BloomingdaleDC resident and @DunbarHSDC graduate. #DC1968 #DCHistory https://t.co/rnx5oPLhF1

— Bloomingdame, pics of 🌞🌈🌕 in #BloomingdaleDC (@bloomingdame) April 11, 2018

Today we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the #FairHousingAct, co-authored by DC native son Sen. Edward Brooke (MA), the nation’s first popularly-elected African American senator. We thank Sen. Brooke for the FHA and his tireless activism for the DC Home Rule Act of 1973. pic.twitter.com/sXwqhaO55W

— Eleanor Holmes Norton (@EleanorNorton) April 11, 2018