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Saturday, November 5, 2011

Library Lab, 1st Floor Business Tech Division
Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library
901 G St NW

History / civil rights

• 1968 Washington, D.C. riots
• Pearl incident
  • Pacheco, Josephine F. (2005). The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac. University of North Carolina Press.
    • https://catalog.dclibrary.org/vufind/Record/ocm55679244 (973.7115 P1164 - History)
• Edmonson sisters
• Paul Jennings (slave)
• Myrtilla Miner
• Emily Howland
• Gamaliel Bailey
• James Wormley
• Black Codes (United States)

Demonstrations

• Bonus Army

History / planning

• McMillan Plan

Places

• African American Civil War Memorial
• Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception
• Charles Sumner School
• Franklin School (Washington, D.C.)
• Freedman's Hospital
• Wormley's Hotel

Architects

• Adolf Cluss

Politics

• Sayles Jenks Bowen
• Robert Brent
• Hilda Mason
• Alexander Robey Shepherd
• John A. Wilson

• Joanna Bethune
• Daniel Drayton
  • Personal memoir of Daniel Drayton (1853)
• Freedmen's Cemetery (Alexandria)
• Freedman's Village (Arlington)
• Yarrow Mamout
• Alethia Browning Tanner

• Poet Laureate of the District of Columbia
• Alexis Rockman (expanded)