Acknowledgments
this trail lives and breathes because of the generosity of the many current and former Shaw residents who shared their memories in a series of neighborhood history projects in the late 1990 s. In 1996, as part of the planning for the U Street/Shaw Heritage Museum and Exhibition Center at the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage, almost 100 individuals participated in “remembering ses- sions” organized by Kathryn S. Smith and Marya McQuirter. Their memories are summarized and their names listed in A Guide to the Historical Resources of Shaw, available at local libraries. This research led to the creation of a unique, 160 -foot-long outdoor exhibit at 13 th and U, Remembering U Street,” that introduced passers- by to the rich history of the neighborhood for more than two years beginning in 1997 . A project of The Historical Society of Washington, D.C., led by Barbara Franco, it was co-sponsored by the Thurgood Marshall Center, the U Street Festival, and the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority; co-curated by Kathryn Smith and Marya McQuirter with the assistance of Henry P. Whitehead; designed and constructed by Terence Nicholson, James H. Johnson, and Julie Dickerson-Thompson; and generously funded by the Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation and the Humanities Council of Washington, D.C. The Greater U Street Heritage Trail is a distillation of that exhibit.
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