I noticed this walking tour of Bloomingdale advertised by the Hill Center. I imagine other residents would be interested.
Mapping Segregation Walking Tour
Sunday, April 14 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 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 2
PM.
Made possible in part by support from
the DC Commission of the Arts & Humanities and the Capitol Hill Community
Foundation.
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