Black Protest and District Home Rule, 1945-1973 (a dissertation in progress)
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The Full Text Of The Legislation Granting District Residents The Right To Elect Their Own Mayor And City
The full text of the legislation granting District residents the right to elect their own mayor and city council.
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We want to free D.C. from our enemies, the people who make it impossible for us to do anything about lousy schools, brutal cops, slumlords, welfare investigators who go on midnight raids, employers who discriminate in hiring and a host of other ills that run rampant through our city.
Marion Barry, speaking for the Free DC Movement, 1966 (Gillette 190)
Jackpot. Why didn't I think of this before?!
Today’s Flashback Friday honors Arturo Alfonso Schomburg, the distinguished Puerto Rican-born Black scholar and bibliophile, as well as the curator of the New York Public Library’s Division of Negro Literature, History and Prints from 1932 - 1938. It was Mr. Schomburg’s personal collection that won the 135th street Library international acclaim and in 1940, the New York Public Library renamed the collection in his honor. Today, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is one of the premiere research libraries in the country and contains over 10,000,000 items.
For his great contributions to our cultural history and in celebration of his birthday this week, we present this portrait of Mr. Schomburg and encourage everyone to stop by the Schomburg Center, in person or online. It’s never too late to learn!
Charles Wesley Harris, Congress and the Governance of the Nation's Capital
Donald Rowat, a Canadian political scientist, and Charles Wesley Harris both study federal capital cities worldwide. Apparently there is a literature surrounding the tension between local and federal political power in these cities. I also need to get my hands on Harris' Perspectives of Political Power in the District of Columbia : the Views and Opinions of 110 Members of the Local Political Elite.
Definitely a sub-field worth looking into.
For you history buffs out there, boy do we have a treat for you. Tomorrow at The New York Public Library’s Hudson Park Branch (66 Leroy Street, off Seventh Ave. South) preeminent historian Eric Foner will be discussing his 2011 Pulitzer Prize winning book The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery. The program begins at 2 pm and admission is free.