Results tagged “1968riots”

It's hard to look down H Street NE and imagine that it was ever a bustling corridor. But along with Fourteenth Street NW and Seventh Street NW, it represented the center of the District's African American commercial presence in the years during which the U.S. struggled to overcome the legacy of state-sponsored segregation. It was the events of April 4, 1968 that decimated all three of those streets and the African American businesses that anchored them, leaving behind a legacy that the District is only emerging from today.