Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historical Markers

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Historically Black Colleges and Universities Historical Markers

This series collects markers describing historical events, persons, and buildings related to the 100+ Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), December 22, 2017

Sterling A. Brown Residence Marker

101 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Brookland — Sterling A. Brown Residence — 1222 Kearny Street, NE — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Sterling Brown (1901-1989) was a central figure of the New Negro Renaissance of the 1920s and '30s and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and '70s. Brown's work includes Southern Road (1932), The Negro in American Fiction (1937), . . . — — Map (db m111799) HM

102 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Carver Langston — Langston Terrace Dwellings / Hilyard Robinson — 21st Street and Benning Road, NE — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Langston Terrace Dwellings, opened in 1938, was the first federally funded public housing project in Washington and among the first in the nation. It honors John Mercer Langston (1829-1897), abolitionist, founder of Howard University Law School, and . . . — — Map (db m112792) HM

103 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Deanwood — 5 — A Whirl on the Ferris Wheel — A Self Reliant People — Greater Deanwood Heritage Trail —

To your right it is the former Merritt Educational Center which operated from 1943 to 2008. However, if you were standing here in the 1920s or '30s, in its place you would have seen exuberant crowds of fashionably dressed African Americans . . . — — Map (db m130780) HM

104 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Langdon — Ionia R. Whipper Home — 2000 Channing Street, NE — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Obstetrician Ionia Rollin Whipper (1872-1953) was a leader in health care services for the city's young women. Born in South Carolina to an illustrious family, Dr. Whipper was educated in the DC public schools before graduating from Howard . . . — — Map (db m187434) HM

105 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Mahaning Heights — 14 — From Gambling to Garden Apartments — A Self-Reliant People — Greater Deanwood Heritage Trail —

If you had stood here 100 years ago, you might have heard the cheering crowds and thundering hoofbeats of Benning Racetrack just across the tracks to your right. Beginning in 1890, Benning was the best-equipped race course in Washington. . . . — — Map (db m130786) HM

106 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, Mayfair — Mayfair Mansions / Albert I. Cassell — 3819 Jay Street, NE — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Mayfair Mansions, completed in 1946 on the site of the old Benning Race Track, was one of the city's earliest garden apartment developments. The 500-unit, first-class complex was designed by Howard University Professor of Architecture Albert I. . . . — — Map (db m136186) HM

107 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northeast Washington, NoMa/Sursum Corda — 2 — Gateway to The Nation's Capital — Hub, Home, Heart — Greater H Street NE Heritage Trail —

With its view of the Capitol and Senate office buildings, and with the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court just a short stroll away, Union Station truly is the gateway to the heart of the nation's government. The station is also where . . . — — Map (db m71679) HM

108 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — Archaeology in Adams Morgan — Surveying the Cemeteries in Walter Pierce Park, 2005-2013 — Reported permanently removed

In 2013, Howard University archaeologists, working with concerned citizens, completed a seven-year survey of Walter C. Pierce Community Park. Their goal: to identify and protect two 19th Century cemeteries--the Colored Union Benevolent . . . — — Map (db m112588) HM

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109 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — Archaeology in Adams Morgan: Surveying the Walter Pierce Park Cemeteries, 2005-2013 —

In 2013, Howard University archaeologists, working with concerned citizens, completed a seven-year survey of Walter C. Pierce Community Park. Their goal, to identify and protect two historic cemeteries—the Colored Union Benevolent . . . — — Map (db m236781) HM

110 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — 4 — Life on the Park — Roads to Diversity — Adams Morgan Heritage Trail —

During the Civil War (1861-1865), the Union Army Carver Hospital and barracks occupied Meridian Hill. The facilities attracted African American freedom seekers looking for protection and employment. By war’s end, a Black community had put down . . . — — Map (db m130705) HM

111 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — Rediscovery and Remembrance — Hallowed Ground — Rock Creek Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

The African American and Quaker cemeteries here were almost lost to time. Both closed in 1890 due to development. Parts of the land were sold to the National Zoo and National Park Service. Developers bought the rest and tried . . . — — Map (db m236780) HM

112 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Adams Morgan — Soldiers, Sailors, and Refugees of War — Hallowed Ground — Rock Creek Park, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

The Civil War changed Washington, as Union troops poured into the city to secure it, and thousands of refugees from slavery arrived here seeking freedom. More than 40 African American soldiers and sailors were later buried at Mt. . . . — — Map (db m236779) HM

113 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Bloomingdale — Barnett Aden Gallery — 127 Randolph Place, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

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 . . . — — Map (db m110518) HM

114 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Bloomingdale — 9 — Court Nullifies Racial Covenants — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

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 . . . — — Map (db m130828) HM

115 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Bloomingdale — 14 — Great Expectations — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail — Reported missing

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 . . . — — Map (db m130843) HM

116 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Bloomingdale — 13 — Home to Headliners — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

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 . . . — — Map (db m130842) HM

117 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Bloomingdale — 7 — Separate Schools — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

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 by . . . — — Map (db m130839) HM

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118 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Brightwood — 6 — School Days — Battleground to Community — Brightwood Heritage Trail —

The School Building Just Ahead of You Opened In 1912 as the Military Road School, the area's third public elementary for African Americans. For decades it was the only public school serving black children in Upper Northwest and nearby . . . — — Map (db m110235) HM

119 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Colonial Village — Frank D. Reeves — 7760 16th Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Frank D. Reeves (1916–1973), a lawyer and civil rights activist, was part of the team that shaped the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court case outlawing school segregation. He advised Senator John F. Kennedy on minority affairs . . . — — Map (db m24679) HM

120 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Columbia Heights — 12 — 1968 — Cultural Convergence — Columbia Heights Heritage Trail —

Following the April 4, 1968, assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., rioting broke out when angry crowds gathered at 14th and U Streets. The disturbances, here and around the city, lasted four days. At least ten people were . . . — — Map (db m184987) HM

121 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Columbia Heights — Campus to Army Camps and Back Again — Meridian Hill Park, National Historic Landmark — National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior —

President Monroe singed a charter in 1821 that established Columbian College on a site north of Florida Avenue between 14th and 15th Streets, Columbian College moved to Foggy Bottom in 1912 and became George Washington University, but the original . . . — — Map (db m63771) HM

122 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Columbia Heights — Charles R. Drew and Lenore Robbins Drew — 3324 Sherman Avenue, NW, Apartment 1 — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Dr. Charles R. Drew (1904-1950), renowned for his blood plasma research, was associated with Howard University College of Medicine during most of his career. In 1941 Drew joined a national effort to set up a blood banking process but left because . . . — — Map (db m65523) HM

123 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Columbia Heights — 15 — College Hill — Cultural Convergence — Columbia Heights Heritage Trail —

Wayland Seminary opened in Foggy Bottom just after the Civil War to train formerly enslaved people and others as “preachers and teachers for the South” and as missionaries to evangelize Africa. In 1875 it moved here, later merging . . . — — Map (db m130745) HM

124 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Columbia Heights — 8 — Girard Street Elites — Cultural Convergence — Columbia Heights Heritage Trail —

The 1100 and 1200 blocks of Girard Street once were home to a “Who’s Who” of African American leaders. This and nearby “double-blocks” are the heart of John Sherman’s Columbia Heights subdivision. By placing all houses 30 feet from the . . . — — Map (db m130747) HM

125 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Columbia Heights — 7 — Nob Hill — Cultural Convergence — Columbia Heights Heritage Trail —

For nearly 50 years, this corner was home to Nob Hill Restaurant, one of the nation's first openly gay bars for-and run by-African Americans. Started in the 1950s as a private social club, Nob Hill went public in 1957. Patrons enjoyed . . . — — Map (db m86014) HM

126 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Columbia Heights — 11 — Views of Justice — Cultural Convergence — Columbia Heights Heritage Trail —

On your left once stood Belmont, an impressive stone mansion built in 1883 by entrepreneur Amzi L. Barber, "America's Asphalt King." Barber headed the Education Department at Howard University at the time of its founding in 1867. He soon . . . — — Map (db m152933) HM

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127 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Downtown — 5850-2019 — Elizabeth Keckley — 1818 - 1907 —

Elizabeth Hobbs Keckley (1818-1907), born into slavery in Virginia, was hired out as a seamstress. With money from clients, she bought her own and her son's freedom in 1855. She gained renown as a dressmaker after moving to Washington, where First . . . — — Map (db m141279) HM

128 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — Alma Thomas Residence — 1530 15th Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Alma Thomas (1891-1978), the nationally acclaimed abstract artist, lived in this house from 1907 until her death. In 1924 she became the first graduate of Howard University's Art Department — and possibly the first black woman in the country to earn . . . — — Map (db m110908) HM

129 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — Charles Hamilton Houston Residence — 1744 S Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) was a legal theorist and mentor to an entire generation of African American lawyers. As Howard University School of Law's vice dean, the Harvard-educated Houston helped transform the school into an accredited . . . — — Map (db m97798) HM

130 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — Historic Kappa House — 1708 S Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity was founded at Indiana University in 1911. The ten founders determined from the start that membership would be based solely on achievement. In 1949 the fraternity's Washington Alumni Chapter worked with undergraduate . . . — — Map (db m93390) HM

131 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — 326 — Myrtilla Miner — Dupont Circle — Diverse Visions | One Neighborhood —

Myrtilla Miner (1815-1864), born near Brookfield, NY, was an idealistic white teacher who came to Washington to teach African Americans. In 1853, with funding from northern abolitionists, she paid $4,000 for a three-acre site at 20th and N . . . — — Map (db m89607) HM

132 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — 10 — Strong Families and Eminent Citizens — City Within a City — Greater U Street Heritage Trail —

The fine rowhouses in this part of the Shaw neighborhood, such as those on this street, were once home to many of the community’s old families and most distinguished citizens. Charles Hamilton Houston, a national leader in civil rights, . . . — — Map (db m130795) HM

133 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Dupont Circle — Todd Duncan Residence — 1600 T Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Internationally renowned baritone Todd Duncan (1903-1998) lived here from about 1935 until about 1960. Duncan originated the role of Porgy in George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess on Broadway. He later refused to perform the role at DC's . . . — — Map (db m97801) HM

134 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Forest Hills — "Music of the Spheres" —

[Top plaque:] "Music of the Spheres" Artist: Martha Jackson Jarvis Commissioned by Fannie Mae Dedicated July 10, 2003 [Center plaque:] Fannie Mae: Van Ness Sculpture Project Martha Jackson-Jarvis The . . . — — Map (db m114358) HM

135 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Georgetown — Early African American Georgetown —

Georgetown's first African Americans were brought as slaves to labor for the tobacco industry and for domestic service in the houses of wealthy tobacco merchants. Others came as freed men and women before and after the Civil War. Over time, in . . . — — Map (db m113639) HM

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136 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Georgetown — Margaret Peters and Roumania Peters Walker — Rose Park Tennis Courts —

The families of the Peters Sisters, Friends of Rose Park, DC Department of Parks & Recreation, and the City of Washington, DC are proud to name the Rose Park Tennis Courts after the Peters Sisters who grew up in this neighborhood on O Street, NW. . . . — — Map (db m97732) HM

137 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 3 — A Voice from the South — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

This Circle Honors Anna Julia Haywood Cooper the educator and civil and women's rights advocate who lived in the gracious house at 201 T Street from 1916 until her death in 1964 at age 105. Born into slavery, Cooper graduated from Oberlin . . . — — Map (db m170781) HM

138 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — Alice Moore Dunbar [Nelson] and Paul Laurence Dunbar Residence — 1934 Fourth Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Alice Moore Dunbar [Nelson] (1875-1935), a budding poet and essayist, and Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906), already a nationally and internationally acclaimed poet, married in 1898 and moved to this house. Mary Church Terrell, an activist and . . . — — Map (db m144576) HM

139 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 6 — Best in the Country — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

Poet May Miller once remarked that unlike New York's Harlem, LeDroit Park “didn't have to have a renaissance.” In fact, before they joined the cultural movement of the 1920s and '30s, most Harlem Renaissance intellectuals spent time at Howard . . . — — Map (db m130838) HM

140 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — Freedmen's Hospital — 520 W Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Freedmen's Hospital was established by the federal government in 1862 to address the needs of thousands of African Americans who poured into the city seeking freedom during the Civil War. The hospital's first administrator was Major Alexander T. . . . — — Map (db m84805) HM

141 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 4 — Government Girls — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

To your right is Lucy Diggs Slowe Hall, a Howard University dormitory. It opened in 1942 as U.S. government housing for African American women who came to DC to take new war-related jobs or fill in for men who left to join the military during . . . — — Map (db m130836) HM

142 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 5 — Griffith Stadium — "Lift Every Voice" — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

“I used to come home every night, get a quarter from my mother, run to Griffith Stadium, and sit in the bleachers,” Abe Pollin once said. “I would look out at these good seats and say, ‘Some day, maybe I will get a good seat.’ . . . — — Map (db m130756) HM

143 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — Griffith Stadium Site — 2041 Georgia Avenue, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Before Howard University Hospital was built in 1975, Griffith Stadium stood here. Constructed in 1914, the stadium was one of the few public spaces that were open to everyone during the segregation era. It was home to the Homestead Grays of the . . . — — Map (db m107755) HM

144 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 2 — T Street Elites — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

The Roster of LeDroit Park's accomplished African Americans is long. Consider these prominent Washingtonians who lived on T Street. Walter E. Washington and his wife, Bennetta Bullock Washington, lived with her family at 408 T Street. Mrs. . . . — — Map (db m152367) HM

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145 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 16 — The Doctor Is In — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

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." Sen. Edward W. Brooke, Bridging the Divide: . . . — — Map (db m190357) HM

146 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 15 — The Prettiest Place — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

Before there was a LeDroit Park, map engraver David McClelland owned a mansion on the property across Rhode Island Avenue. When the Civil War broke out in April 1861, McClelland possessed a detailed map of Washington that suddenly had great . . . — — Map (db m130844) HM

147 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, LeDroit Park — 5 — The University Next Door — Worthy Ambition — LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale Heritage Trail —

Howard University's Employment, educational, and cultural opportunities have attracted and kept families in LeDroit Park and Bloomingdale for generations. Ettyce Hill Moore, a third generation Washingtonian who grew up at 128 V Street in the . . . — — Map (db m113985) HM

148 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — 2 — Advancing the Race — A Fitting Tribute — Logan Circle Heritage Trail —

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, . . . — — Map (db m130848) HM

149 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — Alain Locke Residence — 1326 R Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Alain Locke (1886-1954), a leading 20th-century intellectual and the nation's first black Rhodes Scholar, was a central figure in the New Negro (sometimes called the Harlem) Renaissance. Locke edited The New Negro (1925), an anthology of . . . — — Map (db m110915) HM

150 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — Bethune Museum-Archives — National Historic Site — Designated October 15, 1982 by Act of Congress —

Born on July 10, 1875, in Mayesville, South Carolina, Mary McLeod Bethune was the daughter of sharecroppers. After attending Scotia Seminary in North Carolina she founded Daytona School for Negro Girls which became Bethune-Cookman College. A . . . — — Map (db m17502) HM

151 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — 12 — Care for the City — A Fitting Tribute — Logan Circle Heritage Trail —

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 quickly . . . — — Map (db m130857) HM

152 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — James Lesesne Wells Residence — 1333 R Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

James Lesesne Wells (1902-1993) was an influential artist known for his innovative Linocuts, Wood Engravins, and Color Aquatints. He was active in the Harlem Renaissance before moving to Washington in 1929, and to this house soon after. Wells was a . . . — — Map (db m187425) HM

153 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — 6 — Logan Circle, Just Ahead — A Fitting Tribute — Logan Circle Heritage Trail —

Some of the City's finest Victorian Houses ring Logan Circle. While the area appears on the L'Enfant Plan of 1791, it took Alexander “Boss” Shephard's improvements to make these grand houses of the 1870s and '80s possible. Three Union . . . — — Map (db m130851) HM

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154 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Logan Circle — 11 — Striving for Equality — A Fitting Tribute — Logan Circle Heritage Trail —

This building was the headquarters of the National Council of Negro Women from 1943 to 1966. Political activist and educator Mary McLeod Bethune (1875-1955) founded NCNW in 1935 in her nearby apartment. She moved the organization here eight . . . — — Map (db m130856) HM

155 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Mount Vernon Square — Central Public Library — Mount Vernon Square — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

This majestic building was opened in 1903 as the Central Public Library, popularly known as the Carnegie Library because Andrew Carnegie donated funds to build it. From the start Central was open to all. Mary Church Terrell and historian John . . . — — Map (db m18794) HM

156 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Park View — 15 — "Treat Me Refined" — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

The House at 3017 Sherman Avenue once was a boardinghouse for Howard University students. In 1923 a determined and talented young woman from the tiny town of Eatonville, Florida, lived here while earning an Associates Degree at Howard. In a . . . — — Map (db m130759) HM

157 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Park View — 16 — From Beer Garden to Park View — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail — Reported missing

"Innumerable colored Chinese lanterns ... shedding that dim uncertain light which is the delight of lovers and the poetry of beer drinking" — Washington Post, June 1879

Back when this area was open . . . — — Map (db m99221) HM

158 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Park View — 17 — The Next Wave — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

Caribbean immigrants discovered this stretch of Georgia Avenue in the 1940s, bringing island culture along with jerk chicken, curry, and coco bread. Many, like Eric Williams, who later led Trinidad and Tobago to independence in 1962, came to . . . — — Map (db m130769) HM

159 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Park View — 14 — Urban Oasis — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

These Rowhouses Were Built by developer Harry Wardman, whose houses, hotels, and apartment buildings are known for elegant, solid construction. When these became available in 1912, buyers snapped them up. Among them were an electrician, a . . . — — Map (db m130770) HM

160 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — 5850-2019 — Alma Thomas — 1891 - 1978 —

Painter Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was Howard University's first fine arts graduate, in 1924, and that same year began teaching art at Shaw Junior High School. Upon retiring from Shaw in 1960, Thomas finally had time to focus on her own work. That is . . . — — Map (db m141272) HM

161 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — Booker T. Washington 1856 - 1915 — The Extra Mile — Points of Light Volunteer Pathway —

As an influential African-American, living in a time of escalating segregation, Booker T. Washington negotiated a course between accommodation and progress in advocating greater civil rights for blacks. His philosophy of “request” not . . . — — Map (db m92066) HM

162 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Penn Quarter — .4 — The Roots of Freedom and Equality — Civil War to Civil Rights — Downtown Heritage Trail — Reported permanently removed

“It is known to you that events have transpired within the last few days, deeply affecting the peace and character of our community.”

With these words, city officials tried to calm the angry mobs gathering on . . . — — Map (db m25271) HM

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163 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — 10 — "Strike!" — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

Howard University has a long history of student activism for civil rights, peace, and academic reform. Students of the 1930s and '40s protested lynchings nationwide and DC businesses that snubbed African Americans. In the early 1960s . . . — — Map (db m130758) HM

164 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — "The Divine Nine Help Shape Black American History" —

"The Divine Nine Help Shape Black American History" [Years of the "Divine Nine" historically Black fraternities’ and sororities' founding shown] 1906 [Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity founded at Cornell University] 1908 [Alpha Kappa Alpha . . . — — Map (db m142280) HM

165 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — 13 — Along the "Nile Valley" — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

With its Afro-centric shops and connections to Howard University, this stretch of Georgia Avenue has been called the “Nile Valley.” Blue Nile Botanicals opened first at 2826 Georgia in 1977. Hodari Ali, a former editor of Howard’s . . . — — Map (db m130761) HM

166 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. — Founded Tuesday, December 4, 1906 at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York — ΑΛΦΑ ΦΙ ΑΛΦΑ —

ΑΦΑ The Seven Jewels Jewel Henry Arthur Callis • Jewel Charles Henry CHapman • Jewel Eugene Kinckle Jones • Jewel George Biddle Kelley • Jewel Nathaniel Allison Murray • Jewel Robert Harold Ogle • . . . — — Map (db m217654) HM

167 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Andrew F. Hilyer Residence Site — 2352 Sixth Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Andrew F. Hilyer (1858-1925) fought racism and promoted the "moral, material, and financial interests" of African Americans through the Union League of the District of Columbia, which he co-founded in 1892. Hilyer's Union League Directory . . . — — Map (db m111803) HM

168 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — 8 — Cleaning Up Cowtown — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

The area west of this spot once was an Irish and German immigrant neighborhood known as “Cowtown.” That's because, before 1871, cows, pigs, and sheep roamed freely here, while those kept in Washington City, south of Boundary Street (today's . . . — — Map (db m130763) HM

169 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Day of Honor 2000 —

African American • Asian American Hispanic American • Native American Day of Honor 2000 Still pursuing victory over prejudice at home WWII VV — — Map (db m115574) HM

170 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — 7 — Ed Murphy Way — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

Back in the '60s, everyone came to Murph's. Ed Murphy's Supper Club, that is, located across Georgia Avenue from 1963 to 1975. In the beginning suits and ties were mandatory for the club's highpowered male patrons. But as the Black Power . . . — — Map (db m130773) HM

171 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Fortitude —

Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. commissioned Chicago artist James King to create a sculpture of its Founders. "Fortitude" was dedicated on April 28, 1979. She stands 12' 6" with a 12' hand-to-hand arm span. Sculpted in Corten steel, the metal was . . . — — Map (db m112009) HM

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172 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Founders Library and Moorland-Spingarn Research Center — 500 Howard Place, NW, Howard University Campus — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Founders Library houses wide-ranging collections, the university's museum, and the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, one of the world's largest repositories dedicated to the culture and history of people of African descent. Dedicated in 1939, the . . . — — Map (db m116653) HM

173 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — General Oliver O. Howard —

Residence of General Oliver O. Howard founder of Howard University 1869 - 1874 — — Map (db m9263) HM

174 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Howard Hall — 607 Howard Place, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Howard Hall was completed in 1869 as the home of white Civil War General Oliver Otis Howard (1830-1909), for whom Howard University was named. As commissioner of the Bureau of Refuges, Freedman and Abandoned Lands (Freedman's Bureau), General Howard . . . — — Map (db m65707) HM

175 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Howard University — Sixth Street and Howard Place, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Howard University, one of the oldest Black colleges in the United States, was established by Congress in 1866 to educate formerly enslaved individuals. Its name honors Freedman's Bureau Commissioner General Oliver Otis Howard, a member of the white . . . — — Map (db m66401) HM

176 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Howard University Gallery of Art — Lulu Vere Childers Hall, Howard University Campus — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

The Howard University Gallery of Art was established in 1928 on the lower level of Rankin Chapel. Professor James V. Herring (1897-1969), founder of the University's Art Department, and professor and artist James A Porter (1905-1970) were its . . . — — Map (db m85112) HM

177 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. — Xi Chapter - Howard University — 1920 - 2020 —

Founders - January 5, 1911 Elder Watson Diggs, Dr. Ezra D. Alexander, Dr. Byron Kenneth Armstrong, Atty. Henry Tournerasher, Dr. Marcus Peter Blakemore, Paul Waymond Caine, George Wesley Edmonds, Dr. Guy Levis Grant, Edward Giles Irvin, John . . . — — Map (db m217659) HM

178 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Kelly Miller Residence Site — 2225 Fourth Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Kelly Miller (1863-1939), a prominent Howard University scholar and leader, taught mathematics and sociology. He went on to serve as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Miller laid the groundwork for the formation of African American sociology . . . — — Map (db m111801) HM

179 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — 6 — Medical Care for All — "Lift Every Voice" — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

During the Civil War (1861-1865), thousands of formerly enslaved people came to Washington in search of new lives. They needed work, education, shelter – and health care. In 1862 the U.S. government responded with Freedmen’s Hospital, located . . . — — Map (db m130764) HM

180 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Miner Hall — Commemorating the centennial, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated —

Here stood Miner Hall The site of the genesis of ΑΚΑ January 15, 1908 Ethel Hedgeman (Lyle) Principal Founder — — Map (db m217662) HM

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181 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Miner Teachers College — 2565 Georgia Avenue, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Miner Teachers College, which operated here from 1914 until 1955, was the principal school training black teachers in the city for more than 70 years. Named for Myrtilla Miner (1815-1864), a white educator who founded Miner Normal School in 1851, . . . — — Map (db m114359) HM

182 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. — Founded November 17, 1911 — Howard University, Washington, D.C. —

Front of Marker: Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. Founded November 17, 1911 Howard University Washington, D.C. Manhood Founder Edgar A. Love 1891 - 1974 Dedicated Nov. 16, 1975 Sampson P. . . . — — Map (db m112012) HM

183 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Phi Beta Sigma —

In tribute to three visionary Howard University students, the Founders of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc., A. Langston Taylor of Tennessee, Leonard F. Morse of Massachusetts and Charles I. Brown of Kansas, who here resolved in 1914 to establish a . . . — — Map (db m112008) HM

184 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Prometheans, Inc. — 2515th Army Service Unit (ASU), Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP), U.S. Army, World War II — 1943 - 1993 —

We, the surviving members of the 2515 ASU, ASTP, who met and studied at Howard University in 1943-44 and others who joined us as members of the Prometheans, Inc., do hereby dedicate this memorial to our deceased, our families and friends, Howard . . . — — Map (db m217658) HM WM

185 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Rankin Chapel — Commemorating the Centennial Year, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated —

Site of the Founder's Window erected in honor of the Sixteen Pillars of ΑΚΑ, January 14, 1978. — — Map (db m15659) HM

186 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Sara Winifred Brown, M.D. — The National Association of University Women — Incorporated 1924, District of Columbia —

In Recognition of Sara Winifred Brown, M.D. Her medical degree was awarded by Howard University in 1904. She served as the first female graduate trustee of Howard University, 1924-1948. In 1910, she was one of the founders of the . . . — — Map (db m112010) HM

187 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Tau Beta Pi —

Tau Beta Pi National Engineering Honor Society D.C. Alpha Chapter Chartered in 1956 "Dedicated to excellence" — — Map (db m110807) HM

188 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — 9 — Teachers and Preachers — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

As the Civil War was ended in 1865, most formerly enslaved African Americans arriving in the District could not read or write. The following year members of the First Congregational Society considered organizing a school to train teachers and . . . — — Map (db m130765) HM

189 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — 11 — The Lake So Blue — Lift Every Voice — Georgia Ave./Pleasant Plains Heritage Trail —

The body of water that inspired the line in Howard University’s alma mater, “far above the lake so blue stands old Howard firm and true,” is McMillan Reservoir, which opened in 1902 to supply water to the city. The reservoir and . . . — — Map (db m130766) HM

190 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — The Lovers' Stroll…A Legacy Begins / Constitutionally Bound —

The Lovers' Stroll…A Legacy Begins Charles Robert Samuel Taylor, a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, which was founded on Howard University's campus on January 9, 1914, envisioned a sister organization that would give life and inspiration . . . — — Map (db m174830) HM

191 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Will Marion Cook Family Residence Site — 2232 Sixth Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC —

Will Marion Cook (1869-1944) was an internationally renowned violinist and composer. After studying music at Oberlin College (Ohio) and the National Conservatory of Music (New York), Cook turned to creating musical comedies. Among them was . . . — — Map (db m111802) HM

192 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. —

Presented during the 75th Anniversary of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. Founded January 16, 1920 Jylla Moore Foster, Grand Basileus Grace Walker Phillips, Memorial Chair July 16, 1995 Builder: M.C.M.C. Designers: Terrence Brown & . . . — — Map (db m115573) HM

193 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Pleasant Plains — Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated — Scholarship • Service • Sisterhood • Finer Womanhood — ΖΦΒ —

Founders Arizona Cleaver Stemons • Pearl Anna Neal • Myrtle Tyler Faithful • Viola Tyler Goings • Fannie Pettie Watts Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated Founders Abram Langston Taylor • Leonard Francis Morse • . . . — — Map (db m217663) HM

194 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Shaw — Carter G. Woodson —

Father of Black History

Truth comes to us from the past, then like cold washed down from the mountains

[The reverse of the sculpture features titles of books written by or about Carter G. Woodson:] . . . — — Map (db m178078) HM

195 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Shaw — Shaw Historic Bike Tour / Past Activists Make Way For Future Greatness —

Shaw Historic Bike Tour Asbury Dwellings Howard Theatre Industrial Bank of Washington True Reformer Lincoln Theatre Whitelaw Hotel Thurgood Marshall Center Sweet Daddy Grace Mary McLeoud Bethune Carter G. Woodson Blanche . . . — — Map (db m150840) HM

196 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Shaw — 9 — The Fires of 1968 — Midcity at the Crossroads — Shaw Heritage Trail —

The assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Thursday, April 4, 1968, changed this neighborhood forever. When word of Dr. King’s murder spread that evening, Washingtonians gathered along busy 14th and U streets, NW; H . . . — — Map (db m130892) HM

197 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, The National Mall — Live Oaks: A Gathering Place —

Welcome to the Reading Grove This space provides a place to meet, rest, read, and reflect. Live oaks have long harbored gatherings, from religious services and classes to community celebrations. Witness Trees Trees that were . . . — — Map (db m143315) HM

198 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, Truxton Circle — Baker's Dozen, Inc. Building — 1509 and 1511 Fourth Street, NW — African American Heritage Trail, Washington DC — Reported missing

Starting in 1950, the Baker's Dozen, Inc. Youth Center operated here in two formerly derelict buildings redesigned by architect Howard H. Mackey. The youth center was the project of the Baker's Dozen social club, founded in 1944 by 13 members of . . . — — Map (db m111760) HM

199 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, U Street Corridor — 6 — A Home Away From Home — City Within a City — Greater U Street Heritage Trail —

The Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage occupies the historic Italian Renaissance-style building of the 12th Street YMCA, known after 1972 as the Anthony Bowen YMCA. The 12th Street YMCA was the first African American YMCA . . . — — Map (db m130788) HM

200 ► District of Columbia, Washington, Northwest Washington, U Street Corridor — 11 — A Shared Neighborhood — City Within a City — Greater U Street Heritage Trail —

Although Washington, D.C., has been a racially segregated city for much of its history, black and white Washingtonians have shared parts of this neighborhood. The modern building across 15th Street sits on the site of Portner Flats, . . . — — Map (db m130802) HM

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