Dr. Roland Scott (wearing eyeglasses) receives an incubator for Freedmen’s Hospital’s premature babies, 1941.
Phil Rosen welcomed boxer Joe Louis, who was promoting Joe Louis Kentucky Bourbon, to Dox Liquors, his store on Seventh St., in 1950.
For African Americans, this area was a sanctu- ary, but one that sometimes collided with the racist society around it. In the summer of 1919 racial tension around the country ran high. Valiant and patriotic African American veterans of World War I (1914-1918) had come home to find segregation more rigid than ever. Blacks vowed to fight it; whites vowed to stop them. Rioting broke out in many cities, including Washington. Thousands of black Washingtonians rallied here at the intersection of Seventh and Florida and successfully defended their neighborhood. Peace returned. Zora Neale Hurston matricu- lated at Howard. New theaters, clubs, and res- taurants opened here. Max Silverman’s record store helped launch local R&B musicians. Howard University Medical School graduated physicians who served the community and the nation, and its law school trained attorneys who would build the successful legal case against American segregation.
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