Mapping Segregation Walking Tour
Saturday, April 14 @ 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Historian Sarah Shoenfeld, co-director
of PrologueDC , will lead a walking tour of DC’s
Bloomingdale neighborhood. Racially restrictive deed covenants kept much of
this neighborhood off-limits to African Americans until the 1940s. A series of
legal challenges to covenants in Bloomingdale culminated in the 1948 case Hurd
v. Hodge, which was heard by the Supreme Court. This tour will
feature some of the houses and blocks subject to battles over covenants along
the shifting geographic lines that divided African Americans from their white
neighbors here during the first half of the 20th century, and commemorates the
50th anniversary of
The Civil Rights Act of 1968, also known as the Fair Housing Act.
Mapping
Segregation in Washington DC is documenting the historic
segregation of DC’s housing, schools, playgrounds, and other public spaces. To
date the project has focused on racially restrictive housing covenants, which
had a dramatic impact on the development of the nation’s capital decades before
government-sanctioned redlining policies were implemented in cities across the
country.
The
tour will start at the small park across from Big Bear Café at First and R
Streets NW and will take 1.5 to 2 hours. Please arrive prior to 11 AM.
Sponsored by: Executive Office of the
Mayor | DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities | Association for the Study
of African American Life and History | American Historical Association
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