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Photographer: Allen C. Browne
Taken: January 15, 2017
Caption: Terrell Place
575 7th Street NW
Additional Description: The Hecht company founded in 1857 moved to this building in 1925. Hecht's was popular with African American Shoppers but their lunch counter remained segregated. After picketing by the Coordinating Committee for the Enforcement of the D.C. Anti-Discrimination Laws headed by Mary Church Terrell, Hecht's opened the entire store to everyone in January 1952. The Building was named Terrell Place in 2004
Submitted: January 17, 2017, by Allen C. Browne of Silver Spring, Maryland.
Database Locator Identification Number: p373687
File Size: 1.998 Megabytes

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