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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM238D_separate-schools_Washington-DC.html
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The Nathaniel Gage School for white children opened here in 1904, when Washington's public school system was segregated. By the 1930s, even though LeDroit Park was an African American neighborhood, Gage remained white only. "I had to walk …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM238C_water-for-the-city_Washington-DC.html
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You are entering Bloomingdale. Its name recalls the estate of Navy Commander George Beale, who served in the War of 1812, and his wife Emily, the daughter of Commodore Thomas Truxton. The estate occupied the land now bounded by Florida Ave…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM238B_court-nullifies-racial-covenants_Washington-DC.html
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In the 1940s, Homeowners in the 100 block of Bryant Street breached a contract when they sold their houses to African Americans. Covenants, or agreements, in their real estate deeds prohibited "the sale of the house to anyone of the Negro …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2389_bloomingdale_Washington-DC.html
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You are standing in the heart of Bloomingdale. Noted DC developer Harry Wardman, responsible for 180 Bloomindale houses, was one of many builders who built here between 1890 and 1910.
These Victorian rowhouses were designed for well-to-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2388_dividing-line_Washington-DC.html
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This busy stretch of Rhode Island Avenue was a racial dividing line even as DC became majority African American in 1957. "African Americans were not welcome on [the north] side of the street," commented Reverend Bobby Livingston years late…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2387_fathers-and-sons_Washington-DC.html
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St. Martin of Tours Catholic Church celebrated its first Mass in 1901 in a nearby mansion. Father Eugene Hannan, a graduate of Gonzaga High School just south of here, founded St. Martin's to serve the growing Catholic population that dated…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2386_home-to-headliners_Washington-DC.html
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Edward Brooke, who represented Massachusetts in the U.S. Senate from 1967 to 1979, was the first African American elected to the Senate in the 20th century. Brooke was born at 1938 Third Street and later lived with his family at 1730 First…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2385_barnett-aden-gallery_Washington-DC.html
The Barnett Aden Gallery, which operated on the first floor of this house between 1943 and 1968, was the first privately owned black art gallery in the United States. It was founded by James Vernon Herring (1897-1969), chair of Howard University's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2384_great-expectations_Washington-DC.html
Bloomingdale of the 1940s and '50s was a village of high expectations. Within a block of this sign lived four young women who grew up to be judges.
Anna Diggs Taylor rose to chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Michigan. The daughter of Ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM233C_the-doctor-is-in_Washington-DC.html
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When I was at Dunbar, I thought I wanted to be a doctor. In our community, doctors were the men who made the most money, earned the most respect and had the prettiest wives."
The Doctor Is In
Across the street at 518 Florida Avenue, Af…