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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
1 comment:
Did the closure of McMillan Park purposely contribute to racial segregation of the area? In 1945 after WW11 the threat of water facility sabotage had ended, the Federal govt Army Corp of Engineers did not re-open the park, why? Possibly to discourage African-Americans from wanting to live in the area? Took away an incentive we can see in this video of Bloomingdale elder Ms. Ella, that McMillan, was so enjoyed, DC's only integrated park.
Bloomingdale elder Ms.Ella relates her childhood spent in the PARK, the children called McMillan "our beach", "it was our paradise"..It can now be our paradise for our kids, fight the corporate theft of 25 acres of public land/greenspace stop Bowser/VMP/EYA !! Stop 31,000 cars aday polluting our homes.
https://youtu.be/X0iqLezE6G0
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