Alethia Tanner Day honors enslaved woman who bought her freedom https://t.co/nHX6lC5adP Alethia Tanner Day honors enslaved woman who bought her freedom https://t.co/nHX6lC5adP — Streets of Washington (@StreetsOfDC) Jul 25, 2022
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Blue Ripples on a Red Planet via NASA https://t.co/x6zExFuZ9Y https://t.co/UjgD9YhW3K
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After World War II, Southwest Washington, DC, underwent a bout of complete urban renewal to clean up the blighted neighborhood. New buildings went up, but a community was torn apart. Was it all it worth it? https://t.co/MrPtVsLMfB After World War II, Southwest Washington, DC…
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Today in History - July 25 https://t.co/ibFc7JXXf4 On July 25, 1936, after a five-night run, the audience at the Park Theatre in Bridgeport, Connecticut, applauded the closing night performance of Macbeth, produced by John Houseman and directed by Orson Welles for the Federa…
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After the 1908 Olympics, a strange phenomenon began to hit Washington D.C. - an obsession with marathons. At the time, a "marathon" wasn't the 26.2 mile race we know today but the fad still caught on all the same and took the district by storm. https://t.co/c32RaDsdAd After …
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Mary Church Terrell fought the rights of Black people, specifically Black women all her life. In particular, she fought against segregation in Washington D.C. and advocated for greater accessibility to education for Black Americans. https://t.co/Bu00hy81tc Mary Church Terrel…
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Mary Church Terrell, legendary women's and civil rights activist, helped to integrate D.C.'s restaurants in the 1950s, utilizing laws first passed during Reconstruction in 1872. https://t.co/I1DRea6MCC Mary Church Terrell, legendary women's and civil rights activist, helped …
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