Mapping Segregation: A Walking Tour of DC
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Saturday, May 13, 2023 2pm
Location
Hill Center at the Old Naval Hospital
921 Pennsylvania Ave SE
Details
Historian Sarah Jane Shoenfeld, co-director of the public history project Mapping Segregation in Washington DC, will lead a walking tour of DC’s Bloomingdale neighborhood. This tour highlights key sites in the legal campaign against racially restrictive deed covenants, which kept much of this neighborhood off-limits to African Americans when it was first developed around the turn of the 20th century. Discover why Bloomingdale’s premier architectural corridor was also a racial barrier, and how Black home-seekers and civil rights attorneys chipped away at this dividing line.
