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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYWR_griffith-stadium_Washington-DC.html
"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.' "When Pollin's MCI C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYVG_armed-resistance_Washington-DC.html
Shortly before midnight on July 22, 1919, James Scott, a black army veteran, boarded a streetcar at the corner and nearly lost his life.
A few days before, a white mob, including many veterans of World War I, had terrorized Southwest DC, rando…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWT5_the-national-building-museum_Washington-DC.html
"It's too bad the damn thing is fire proof," General William Tecumseh Sherman, 1887.
The nation's only museum dedicated to American achievements in architecture, urban planning, construction, engineering, and design is appropriately housed in o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMWMK_frelinghuysen-university-jesse-lawson-and-rosetta-c-lawson_Washington-DC.html
Frelinghuysen University was founded in 1917 to provide education, religious training, and social services for Black working-class adults. Founders include Jesse Lawson, a Howard University-educated lawyer; his wife Rosetta C. Lawson, an advocate …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS3Z_howard-university-sets-the-standard_Washington-DC.html
To the north and east of the U Street corridor rises the tower of Founders Library at Howard University - an institution created in 1867 that has trained and inspired generations of African American leaders and has been a lodestar for its own com…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS2W_acacia-life-insurance-building-1936_Washington-DC.html
Acacia Life Insurance Building - 1936
On March 3, 1869, President Andrew Johnson signed the Congressional Act charteringThe Masonic Mutual Relief Association thatbecame Acacia Life Insurance Company. Built as its headquarters and occupied by Ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRZD_african-american-civil-war-memorial_Washington-DC.html
This memorial is dedicated to those who served in the African American units of the Union Army in the Civil War. The 209,145 names inscribed on these walls commemorate those fighters of freedom.
[Names of the officers and enlisted men who serve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRZ7_phyllis-wheatley-ywca_Washington-DC.html
This was the city's first Young Women's Christian Association and the nation's only independent Black YWCA. It was organized in Southwest Washington as the Colored YWCA in 1905 by members of the Book Lovers Club, a Black women's literary group le…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRYP_we-had-everything-we-needed-right-here_Washington-DC.html
Black businesses sprung up everywhere on U Street in the early 1900s. As racial segregation increased, African Americans in Washington began a tradition of protest. They also responded by creating institutions of there own. In the 25 years from 18…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR4W_japanese-american-memorial-to-patriotism-during-world-war-ii_Washington-DC.html
[Panel 1 of the historical narrative at memorial entrance]:On February 19, 1942, 73 days after the United States entered World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066 which resulted in the removal of 120,000 Japanese Ameri…