tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095284393772305956.post120838888172748235..comments2023-10-22T10:53:07.976-04:00Comments on 14th & You: Pre-Gentrification Local History14th & Youhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10401615764637283832noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095284393772305956.post-31175465967551954552009-03-01T17:08:00.000-05:002009-03-01T17:08:00.000-05:00For the record, Stokely Carmichael addressed no c...For the record, Stokely Carmichael addressed no crowds at 14th and U Streets the day King was murdered. The offices of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) were located at there and people were always in and out. I spoke at the same rally with Kwame Toure (Carmichael) at Howard and I am certain that the rebellion has begun before we took to the podium outside Douglass Hall. There were spontaneous and simultaneous eruptions of rage all over the city. To intimate that any one person put this in motion, with the exception of the assassin of Dr. King, is patently absurd. I joined the Howard University Emergency Relief effort which worked with people of various races across social class lines to bring food, water and vital transportation to the neighborhoods hardest hit. To my knowledge this is a history yet unwritten and I should know better.WJ Moussa Fosterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10101024328387391090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095284393772305956.post-20984473038576536702007-11-29T00:25:00.000-05:002007-11-29T00:25:00.000-05:00I greatly enjoyed reading this post and your musin...I greatly enjoyed reading this post and your musings on the subject. My name is Max and I am a researcher with The George Washington University who is currently studying the revitalization of the neighborhood. I view this process as the natural consequence of the cultural void left by the riots and the flight of professional African-Americans from the area. I would be very much interested in interviewing the author of this post by phone or by email or in person. If this could be arranged, then please send an email to mmcgowen@gwu.edu.Max McGowenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00189187895672686193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2095284393772305956.post-26544059572284945582007-10-31T11:50:00.000-04:002007-10-31T11:50:00.000-04:00Yeah, most of the changes that the Howard alum was...Yeah, most of the changes that the Howard alum was refering to had were probably happening before she/he was in college. The pace may have picked up and the physical changes in the neighborhood landscape may have been more obvious, but the process started in the 1980s really, under Mayor Barry and the Reeves Center. <BR/><BR/>LeDroit Park has a neat history as well, check out this <A HREF="http://www.nps.gov/history/nr/travel/wash/dc65.htm" REL="nofollow">this</A> from teh National Park Service and <A HREF="http://www.howard.edu/library/ledroitpark/" REL="nofollow">this </A> from Howard University.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16989858662676793726noreply@blogger.com