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Summary:

Since its inception, Washington, D.C. has been home to a significant population of African Americans.  Yet as the nation’s capitol, the District of Columbia, did not set a positive example regarding rare relations, it merely followed custom.  Washington, D.C. was firmly rooted in racial segregation.

After World War II, the country moved to integrate the military, Washington, D.C.

seemed uninterested in challenging racial custom.  By 1950 the traditional African American community leadership, i. e. churches, sororities, lodges, had failed to organize any protest against the run down facilities that served as schools for their children.  Even most parents with Agood@ wages from government jobs remained silent in the matter of substandard segregated schools.  That same year the owner of a local African American barbershop stepped forward and fille spottswood bolling biography5 MER