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Visitors to Washington, DC flock to the National Mall,where grand monuments symbolize the nation’s highest ideals.This self-guided walking tour is the sixth in a series that invites you to discover what lies beyond the monuments:Washington’s historic neighborhoods. The Shaw neighborhood you are about to explore is one of the city’s oldest,where traces can be found of nearly every group that has called Washington home. Shaw was partly disfigured by the riots following the assassination of Rev.Dr.Martin Luther King, Jr., in .Yet much of its rich past remains for you to see.This guide points you to the legacies of daily life in this Midcity neighborhood between downtown and uptown.
Dance class at the YWCA,around 1940. Moorland-Spingarn Research Center,Howard University
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