Posts tagged Riots
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Mid-city renaissance thanks to Metro
Sunday’s Washington Post has a feature article on the path from burned-out ghetto to high-priced condo in Columbia Heights, Shaw, H Street and other corridors destroyed in the 1968 riots. Suburbanization and desegregation pushed affluent people, black and white, to move out to suburbs, and the riots destroyed the remaining economic fabric. Federal and municipal disinvestment… Keep reading…
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Forty years
Forty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated. That night, a wave of violence and looting destroyed the commercial main streets in Shaw, Columbia Heights, H Street, Capitol Hill, Anacostia, and others. Keep reading…