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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23PG_thomas-family-home_Washington-DC.html
Thomas Family Home
Where Alma Woodsey Thomas
American Artist and Teacher
Resided
1907 - 1978
This House Was Listed July 28, 1987
in the National Register Of
Historic Places
National Park Service
United States Department of the Interior
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23PF_st-lukes-episcopal-church-alexander-crummel_Washington-DC.html
This was the first independent black Episcopal parish church in the city. It was established in 1879 by a breakaway group from a Foggy Bottom mission church, St. Mary's Chapel for Colored People, led by former St. Mary's pastor, Alexander Crummell…
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Across the street is St. Luke's Episcopal Church, completed in 1880 by DC's first black Episcopalian congregation. Founding pastor Alexander Crummell was a prominent African American intellectual. After 20 years as a missionary in Liberia,…
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Luther Place Memorial Church has been a neighborhood fixture since 1873, when the Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church established it as a "memorial to God's goodness in delivering the land from slavery and from war." It quick…
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Declared a National Historic Landmark in 1972, the US Treasury Building is the oldest departmental building in Washington. The building serves as the headquarters of the Treasury Department. Treasury's responsibilities encompass revenue collection…
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has been designatedA National Landmarklisted inThe National Register of Historic Placesunder the provisions ofthe Historic Act of August 1, 1935.This site possesseshistoric architectural significance.National Park ServiceThe United States Departme…
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As founder and 37-year president of the American Federation of Labor (AFL), Samuel Gompers is credited with winning unprecedented rights and protections for the American worker. Never wavering in his belief that power for the worker lay in collect…
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William Edwin Hall served as the unpaid president of the Boys and Girls Clubs of America for nearly four decades. Sacrificing his time and personal assets, Hall kept the nascent organization solvent. Through his leadership, it grew to become one o…
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Juliette Gordon Low
Founded Girl Scouts of the United States of America in 1912 to encourage girls to develop and strengthen their leadership skills, to provide support, kindness and compassion to those in need; and to prepare to serve as respons…
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Blind and deaf writer and activist, and guiding force of the American Foundation for the Blind who devoted her life to expanding possibilities for p…