WASHINGTON HISTORY: Meeting the Moment

Washington DC: DC History Center, 2020. Special issue.
Meeting the Moment: Commentary on 2020


“Meeting the Moment” came together in the summer of 2020 as a response to the global pandemic and ongoing Black Lives Matter protests. Washington History challenged DC historians to look back into their research and ask: what could DC’s past tell us about how we arrived at this moment? What are this moment’s implications for our next steps as a community? These essays probe the old structures and experiences, dating back to the District’s founding, that shape our present.

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ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE

Capital Power Intersection, Corner of Marginalization and Emancipation by Christopher Klemek

Lafayette Square: The People’s Park by Matthew R. Costello

President’s Park: From Free to Fortified by Thomas E. Luebke

Black Lives on 16th Street by John DeFerrari

Unfinished Business in a Divided City by Mara Cherkasky

Black Freedom’s Lincoln Spaces by Derek Gray

The Chocolate State by Brandi Thompson Summers

1848: The Pearl by Mary Beth Corrigan

1919: Defending Black Lives by David F. Krugler

1932: The Bonus March by Jennifer D. Keene

1971: Mayday by Lawrence Roberts

1991: Mount Pleasant by Patrick Scallen

My Life: Then and Now by E. Ethelbert Miller

Defending Tenants in the Midst of a Plague by Amanda Huron

Black Health Matters by Mary-Elizabeth B. Murphy

“I Would Carry a Sign”: Black Youth Challenge Jim Crow by Paula C. Austin

Organizing Howard by Joshua M. Myers

Science and Freedom by Rachel Watkins

Say Their Names by Sarah Jane Shoenfeld

The Silence of the Founders by Kenneth R. Bowling

Suing for Freedom in Washington by William G. Thomas III

Race, Policing, and Reform by Kate Masur

Learning from Our Ancestors by Chris Myers Asch and George Derek Musgrove

1968: Courts, Curfews, Citizens by Kyla Sommers

DC Black Radical Politics and Federal Law and Order by Lauren Pearlman

Fulcrum by Bell Julian Clement

New Institutions, Better History by Eric S. Yellin

Justice in the Public Square by Howard Gillette, Jr.

Plus Milestones and Reviews