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Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action 2020 Washington History Resource Guide

This Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action Washington History Resource Guide is a curated list of content from Washington History including:

Profiles of famous as well as less well-known black women and men who have made their mark on Washington, D.C.;

Articles addressing political and social issues affecting the lives of black women and men in Washington, D.C., from its founding to the near-present;

Pieces highlighting the impact of local black women and men on the arts, business, culture and politics of Washington, D.C.

Teachable Moments – short articles designed for classroom use that take a

single local primary source and explore its historical context with DCPS curricular needs in mind; and

An annotated bibliography relating to a little-known experiment in community policing that took place in Washington, D.C. between 1968 and 1973.

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Table of Contents

Washington History in the Classroom ........................................................................................................ 4

Selected profiles .......................................................................................................................................... 5

Dorcas Allen ............................................................................................................................................. 5

Benjamin Banneker ................................................................................................................................. 5

Marion Barry ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Perry Carson ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Charles Drew ........................................................................................................................................... 5

Lillian Evanti ............................................................................................................................................ 5

Ellington, Edward Kennedy “Duke” ....................................................................................................... 5

Louis Edwin Fry, Sr. ................................................................................................................................. 5

Loretta Carter Hanes ............................................................................................................................... 6

George E. C. Hayes ................................................................................................................................... 6

James Oliver Horton ................................................................................................................................ 6

Louise Daniel Hutchinson ....................................................................................................................... 6

Elizabeth Keckly ...................................................................................................................................... 6

Gail Sylvia Lowe ....................................................................................................................................... 6

Mark Mack ................................................................................................................................................ 6

James A. Miller ......................................................................................................................................... 6

James Madison Nabrit ............................................................................................................................. 6

Steven Cameron Newsome ..................................................................................................................... 6

George Pointer ......................................................................................................................................... 7

Dorothy Porter......................................................................................................................................... 7

Mary Johnson Sprow ............................................................................................................................... 7

Henry O. Tanner ...................................................................................................................................... 7

Walter E. Washington ............................................................................................................................. 7

Ann Marie Weems ................................................................................................................................... 7

George Henry White ................................................................................................................................ 7

Garnet C. Wilkinson ................................................................................................................................. 7

John Francis Nicholas Wilkinson............................................................................................................ 7

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Selected articles highlighting local acts of civic activism .............................................................................. 8

Selected articles addressing local arts, business, culture, and community .................................................. 9

Teachable Moments addressing compensation emancipation, racial covenants, and the civil rights era 10

Case Study: Community Policing in the Nation’s Capital, 1968-1973......................................................... 11

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Washington History in the Classroom The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., is a 501(c)(3) educational and research organization that collects, interprets, and shares the history of our nation’s capital. Washington is known throughout the world as a monumental federal city. Less well-known are the stories of Washington’s many diverse and vital communities. The Historical Society helps make this local history readily available to the public to promote a sense of identity, place, and pride in Washington and to preserve this heritage for future generations. Washington History is the only scholarly journal devoted exclusively to the history of our nation’s capital. Washington History is the successor to the Records of the Columbia Historical Society, first published in 1897. The Historical Society of Washington, D.C. began publishing today’s Washington History magazine in 1989, the same year the organization changed its name. Washington History is filled with scholarly articles, reviews, and a rich array of images. It is written and edited by distinguished historians and journalists. “Washington History magazine is an essential teaching tool that brings peer-reviewed historical analysis of local topics to local students,” says Bill Stevens, a D.C. public charter school teacher. “In the 19 years I’ve been teaching D.C. history to high school students, my scholars have used Washington History to investigate their neighborhoods, compete in National History Day, write and produce plays based on real-life historical characters. They’ve grappled with concepts such as compensated emancipation, the 1919 riots, school integration, and the evolution of the built environment of Washington, D.C. I could not teach courses on Washington, D.C. history without Washington History.”

The full run of Washington History is available in print as well as online through the JSTOR database, which accessible through the Kiplinger Research Library at the DC History Center as well as many public and school libraries. For more information on Washington History and Kiplinger Research Library, exhibits, and other services of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., visit the DC History Center, 801 K Street NW, or online at www.dchistory.org.

Bill Stevens engages with his SEED Public Charter School students in the Historical Society’s Kiplinger Research Library, 2016.

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Selected profiles

Dorcas Allen Mann, Alison T. ""Horrible Barbarity": The 1837 Murder Trial of Dorcas Allen, a Georgetown Slave." Washington History 27, no. 1 (2015): 3-14. www.jstor.org/stable/43229911.

Benjamin Banneker Bedini, Silvio A. "The Survey of the Federal Territory: Andrew Ellicott and Benjamin Banneker." Washington History 3, no. 1 (1991): 76-95. www.jstor.org/stable/40072968.

Marion Barry Asch, Chris Myers, and George Derek Musgrove. "Marion S. Barry, 1936-2014."

Washington History 27, no. 1 (2015): 66-67. www.jstor.org/stable/43229922.

Perry Carson

Asch, Chris Myers. "Person of Interest: Perry H. Carson." Washington History 28, no. 1 (2016): 14-15. www.jstor.org/stable/43799314.

Charles Drew Love, Spencie. ""Noted Physician Fatally Injured": Charles Drew and the Legend That Will Not Die." Washington History 4, no. 2 (1992): 4-19. www.jstor.org/stable/40073067.

Lillian Evanti Smith, Eric Ledell. "Lillian Evanti: Washington's African-American Diva." Washington History 11, no. 1 (1999): 24-43. www.jstor.org/stable/40073357.

Ellington, Edward Kennedy “Duke”

Hasse, John Edward. "Washington's Duke Ellington." Washington History 26 (2014): 36-59. www.jstor.org/stable/23728369.

Louis Edwin Fry, Sr. Bird, Betty. "Louis Edwin Fry, Sr. 1903-2000." Washington History 12, no. 2 (2000): 71-72. www.jstor.org/stable/40073542.

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Loretta Carter Hanes

Musgrove, George Derek. "Loretta Carter Hanes, 1926–2016." Washington History 29, no. 1 (2017): 66-67. www.jstor.org/stable/90007377.

George E. C. Hayes Redmann, Gail. "Papers of George E.C. Hayes." Washington History 9, no. 2 (1997): 80-82. www.jstor.org/stable/40073300.

James Oliver Horton

Corrigan, Mary Beth. "James Oliver Horton, 1944–2017." Washington History 30, no. 1 (2018): 64-65. www.jstor.org/stable/90021509.

Louise Daniel Hutchinson

REINCKENS, SHARON A. "Louise Daniel Hutchinson, 1928-2014." Washington History 27, no. 1 (2015): 67-68. www.jstor.org/stable/43229923.

Elizabeth Keckly

Reynolds, Virginia. "Slaves to Fashion, Not Society: Elizabeth Keckly and Washington, D.C.'s African American Dressmakers, 1860–1870." Washington History 26, no. 2 (2014): 4-17. www.jstor.org/stable/23937711.

Gail Sylvia Lowe

HENSON, PAMELA M. "Gail Sylvia Lowe, 1950-2015." Washington History 27, no. 2 (2015): 72-73. www.jstor.org/stable/43588163.

Mark Mack

Belcher, Mary. "Mark Mack 1961-2012." Washington History 24, no. 2 (2012): 159-60. www.jstor.org/stable/41825440.

James A. Miller

Jackson, Maurice. "James A. Miller, 1944-2015." Washington History 28, no. 1 (2016): 70-71. www.jstor.org/stable/43799325.

James Madison Nabrit Anderson, Carl E. "James Madison Nabrit, Jr. 1900-1997." Washington History 10, no. 1 (1998): 71-73. www.jstor.org/stable/40073316

Steven Cameron Newsome Hall, Robert L. "Steven Cameron Newsome 1952-2012." Washington History 24, no. 2 (2012): 155-56. www.jstor.org/stable/41825438.

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George Pointer

Torrey, Barbara Boyle, and Clara Myrick Green. "Free Black People of Washington County, D.C. George Pointer and His Descendants." Washington History 28, no. 1 (2016): 16-31. www.jstor.org/stable/43799315.

Dorothy Porter

Bhan, Esme. "Dorothy Louise Burnett Porter Wesley 1904-1995." Washington History 8, no. 1 (1996): 88-89. www.jstor.org/stable/40073201.

Mary Johnson Sprow Clark-Lewis, Elizabeth, and Mary Johnson Sprow. "Duty and "Fast Living": The Diary of Mary Johnson Sprow, Domestic Worker." Washington History 5, no. 1 (1993): 46-65. www.jstor.org/stable/40073111.

Henry O. Tanner

Mathews, Marcia M. "The Art of Henry O. Tanner." Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 69/70 (1969): 443-59. www.jstor.org/stable/40067722.

Walter E. Washington

Wells, Donna M. "Walter Edward Washington (1915-2003): A Photo Tribute." Washington History 16, no. 1 (2004): 4-15. www.jstor.org/stable/40073578.

Ann Marie Weems Russell, Hilary. "Underground Railroad Activists in Washington, D.C." Washington History 13, no. 2 (2001): 28-49. www.jstor.org/stable/40073373.

George Henry White Justesen, Benjamin R. "George Henry White and the End of an Era." Washington History 15, no. 2 (2003): 34-51. www.jstor.org/stable/40073604.

Garnet C. Wilkinson Hamilton, Tikia K. "The Cost of Integration: The Contentious Career of Garnet C. Wilkinson." Washington History 30, no. 1 (2018): 50-60. www.jstor.org/stable/90021506.

John Francis Nicholas Wilkinson

Demers, Daniel J. "John Francis Nicholas Wilkinson." Washington History 29, no. 1 (2017): 84-83. www.jstor.org/stable/90007388.

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Selected articles highlighting local acts of civic activism

Musgrove, George Derek. "“Statehood Is Far More Difficult”: The Struggle for D.C. Self-

Determination, 1980–2017." Washington History 29, no. 2 (2017): 3-17.

www.jstor.org/stable/90015019.

Haskins, Faye P. "The Art of D.C. Politics: Broadsides, Banners, and Bumper Stickers."

Washington History 12, no. 2 (2000): 46-63. www.jstor.org/stable/40073539.

Roe, Donald. "The Dual School System in the District of Columbia, 1862-1954: Origins, Problems, Protests." Washington History 16, no. 2 (2004): 26-43. www.jstor.org/stable/40073395. Dark, Okianer Christian. "The Role of Howard University School of Law in Brown v. Board of Education." Washington History 16, no. 2 (2004): 83-85. www.jstor.org/stable/40073398. Crooms, Lisa A. "Race, Education and the District of Columbia: The Meaning and Legacy of

Boiling v. Sharpe." Washington History 16, no. 2 (2004): 14-22. www.jstor.org/stable/40073393.

McQuirter, Marya Annette. ""Our Cause Is Marching On": Parent Activism, Browne Junior High School, and the Multiple Meanings of Equality in Post-War Washington." Washington History 16, no. 2 (2004): 66-82. www.jstor.org/stable/40073397. Pacifico, Michele F. ""Don't Buy Where You Can't Work": The New Negro Alliance of Washington." Washington History 6, no. 1 (1994): 66-88. www.jstor.org/stable/40073229. Carey, Miya. "Becoming “a Force for Desegregation”: The Girl Scouts and Civil Rights in the Nation’s Capital." Washington History 29, no. 2 (2017): 52-60. www.jstor.org/stable/90015025. Fariello, Elise. "Association for the Study of African American Life and History Turns 100." Washington History 27, no. 1 (2015): 70. www.jstor.org/stable/43229925. Williams, Melvin R. "A Blueprint for Change: The Black Community in Washington, D. C., 1860-1870." Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 71/72 (1971): 359-93. www.jstor.org/stable/40067781. Shoenfeld, Sarah Jane, and Mara Cherkasky. "“A Strictly White Residential Section”: The Rise and Demise of Racially Restrictive Covenants in Bloomingdale." Washington History 29, no. 1 (2017): 24-41. www.jstor.org/stable/90007372.

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Selected articles addressing local arts, business, culture, and community Smith, Kathryn S. "Remembering U Street." Washington History 9, no. 2 (1997): 28-53. www.jstor.org/stable/40073294. Jackson, Maurice. "Great Black Music and the Desegregation of Washington, D.C." Washington History 26 (2014): 12-35. www.jstor.org/stable/23728366. Wheeler, Pat. "The Washington Informer: Celebrates 50 Years of Positive and Empowering News." Washington History 26, no. 2 (2014): 69-70. www.jstor.org/stable/23937722. Greene, Dolores Dunmore. "Mount Zion, Washington’s Oldest Black Church, Turns 200." Washington History 28, no. 2 (2016): 65-66. www.jstor.org/stable/washhist.28.2.65. Fitzpatrick, Michael Andrew. ""A Great Agitation for Business": Black Economic Development in Shaw." Washington History 2, no. 2 (1990): 48-73. www.jstor.org/stable/40073022. Levey, Jane Freundel. "The Scurlock Studio." Washington History 1, no. 1 (1989): 40-57. www.jstor.org/stable/40072981. Mintz, Steven. "A Historical Ethnography of Black Washington, D. C." Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 52 (1989): 235-53. www.jstor.org/stable/40067866. Ruble, Blair A. "Seventh Street, Black D.C.'s Music Mecca." Washington History 26 (2014): Viii-11. www.jstor.org/stable/23728365. Burwell, Lilian Thomas. "Reflections on LeDroit Park: Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Her Neighborhood." Washington History 3, no. 2 (1991): 46-61. www.jstor.org/stable/40073040. Cantwell, Thomas J. "Anacostia: Strength in Adversity." Records of the Columbia Historical Society, Washington, D.C. 49 (1973): 330-70. www.jstor.org/stable/40067747.

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Teachable Moments addressing compensation emancipation, racial

covenants, and the civil rights era These short articles are designed for classroom use. They take a single local primary source and explore its historical context with DCPS curricular needs in mind. Joseph P. Reidy, “The Winding Path to Freedom under the District of Columbia Emancipation Act of April 16, 1862,” 26-2 (fall 2014), 18-22, https://www.jstor.org/stable/23937713

✓Using primary sources ✓Emancipation Kathryn Schneider Smith, “For Real Hometown Understanding, Start with Real Estate Maps,” 27-1 (spring 2015), 15-18, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43229912

✓Using primary sources ✓Geography ✓Map skills ✓Built environment Chris Myers Asch, “The Rage of the Civil Rights Era,” 27-2 (fall 2015), 20-24, https://www.jstor.org/stable/43588154

✓Using primary sources ✓Civil Rights Brian Rohal, “Mobilizing the Community in an Era Before Social Media,” 28-1 (spring 2016), 49-52, www.jstor.org/stable/43799318

✓Using primary sources ✓Civil Rights ✓Transportation changes Matthew Gilmore and Kim Prothro Williams, “Moving Buildings: The Case of the Burrows Farmhouse,” 28-2 (fall 2016), 49-52, https://www.jstor.org/stable/washhist.28.2.49

✓Using primary sources ✓Map skills ✓Built environment Sarah Jane Shoenfeld, ““Blockbusting” and Racial Turnover in Mid-Century D.C.,” 30-2 (fall 2018), 50-54

✓Using primary sources ✓Civil Rights ✓Geography ✓Map skills ✓Built environment

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Case Study: Community Policing in the Nation’s Capital, 1968-1973. What was the Pilot District Project? The Pilot District Project (PDP) was a federally funded experiment in community policing. The program launched in 1968 with broad goals for police reform and citizen participation in a predominantly African American area of Washington, D.C., and was an early effort to intervene in the ways that police and residents interacted on the streets. Mired in internal struggle and public clashes, the PDP ended without fanfare when the funding ran out.

The PDP launched with broad goals for police reform and citizen participation. The city’s Third District (now most of today’s Ward 1) was selected as the pilot location. Although the PDP faced criticism from some District residents—resentful of attempts by white government officials to exert control over black neighborhoods—they were active in public meetings and campaigned for positions on the advisory board.

What did the PDP accomplish? The project enacted several important innovations during its five-year run, including 24-hour police stations, citizen ride-alongs, and a series of bulletin boards to share information about police work. The program also introduced police sensitivity training along with Spanish-language training. Looking back 50 years later, the PDP serves as a timely reminder that the struggle to repair relationships between police and African Americans is not new.

However, the PDP was a short-lived, controversial program. Conceived as a pilot, it never expanded to other cities. By pretty much any standard, it was not a resounding success. But does that mean it was a failure? Looking back at this project, which operated under both liberal and conservative administrations, helps us understand how citizens and the police force have long disagreed about how we use public space.

Why study the Pilot District Project? The PDP is a study both in federal intervention in local affairs and a look at grassroots activism. The PDP citizens advisory board was Marion Barry’s first elected office in D.C. Other prominent participants included Carlos Rosario (the leading Latino community activist in Washington, D.C. during the 1960s), Charles I. Cassell (chair of the Black United Front and founder of the D.C. Council of Black Architects), David A. Clarke (served on the first elected Washington City Council), Calvin W. Rolark (founder of the United Black Fund, Inc. and the Washington Informer), and Walter Fauntroy (Citizens Committee for Equal Justice). Fifty years on, this is a compelling and timely story of urban policing, community participation and resilience, federal intervention, and a program with good intentions that perhaps was never up to its herculean task. How can my students learn more about the Pilot District Project and the history of interactions between the police and residents in Washington, D.C.? The following suggested resources are available online through both free sites and fee-based databases; the latter can be accessed through the Kiplinger Research Library at the DC History Center, the DC Public Library, the Library of Congress, and through some school libraries.

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Hechinger, John W., and Gavin Taylor. "Black and Blue: The D.C. City Council vs. Police Brutality, 1967-69." Washington History 11, no. 2 (1999): 4-23. www.jstor.org/stable/40073456 This excerpt analyzes a key facet of the urban environment - police /community/ City Council relations. In so doing, it captures the city's atmosphere as it began the transition from appointed to elected city government. The author served from 1967 to 1969 as the presidentially appointed chairman of the first City Council since Reconstruction.

Rohal, Brian. "Teachable Moment: Mobilizing the Community in an Era Before Social Media." Washington History 28, no. 1 (2016): 49-52. www.jstor.org/stable/43799318 Since its creation in 1960, SNCC had focused on register- ing African Americans in the rural South to vote, and it had not been very active in Washington. In spring 1965, though, SNCC members sensed an opportunity to organize the black community because "no one else is doing anything effective" in D.C. despite "the existence of a body of people who want to move." Marion Barry, who came to the city in spring 1965 to take over the local SNCC office, saw the fare dispute as a local issue that could motivate people to participate in an organized protest.

Thomas L. Lalley Pilot District Project files (MS 0885) and Robert Shellow Pilot District Project files (MS 0907), Kiplinger Research Library, DC History Center, https://dchistory.pastperfectonline.com/ The records include Pilot District Project founding documents, minutes of meetings, annual reports, publications, clippings. This material covers the origin and history of the project, including background, structure, events, personnel, and results. Available at the Kiplinger Research Library in the DC History Center at the historic Carnegie Library.

CG 8225: The People and the Police https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLugwVCjzrJsV6H33v35BFdMfxVfOIqrqr https://catalog.archives.gov/id/73174 Documentary film held by the National Archives and Records Administration that captures the early, turbulent years of OEO'S experiment in police-community relations in Washington, DC.

Group Processes in Police-Community Relations, By Kenn Rogers, Ph. D. 119 Cong. Rec. 2192 1973, January 26, 1973 …"Solution," indeed, took the form of a "law and order" campaign for the Presidency by Richard Nixon in 1968, with its strong racial overtones and the implication that more cops, more guns, more toughness, no more coddling, and presto-no crime. It did not work out that way. Something else must be tried… Across the country of America, there is a large gap between police and inner city residents. On the establishment side there is an opinion that police are justified by performing their duties by virtually whatever means necessary-on the nonestablishment side it is very widely understood that some police will do anything necessary whether justified or not. Washington, D.C., a city of 70 per cent Blacks, the capital of the nation, the place where Congress and the President dwell, is no exception to the rule of police-citizen misunderstanding and alienation on both sides. To this end there are two sides with no bridge between them-Where do we go from here? (The Pilot District Project Newsletter, Vol. 1, No. 1). This paper describes efforts to build such a bridge and in the process to develop data pointing to where to go from there. It is an analysis and evaluation of four four-day intensive working seminars conducted by the District of Columbia Government Pilot District Project (PDP). Designed to enable participants to explore the nature of authority and the problems encountered in its exercise, each seminar was attended by

police officers working and civilian citizens living in Washington D.C.'s Third Police District.”