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National History Day at Nmaahcblack History Of National History Day at NMAAHC Topic List African American History of Washington D.C. Use this list to help you find and explore topics for the National History Day 2018 – 2019 contest theme: Triumph and Tragedy in History. These topics on the African American history of Washington D.C. range from 1790 to the early 2000s. Free Blacks and Slaves, 1790 -1861 • Triumph in Boxing: Tom Molyneux • Free Blacks and the Washington Corporation Council • African Americans, Washington D.C., and the War of 1812 • Triumph and Tragedy in Freedom: The American Colonization Movement • Triumph and Tragedy in Religion: Mt. Zion United Methodist Church • Islam, Free Blacks, and the Early Republic: Yarrow Momout • The Benevolent Society of Alexandria • Triumph and Tragedy of Freedom: Slave Trading in Antebellum Washington D.C. • The Snow Riot of 1835 • Free African Americans and the Retroceding of Alexandria to Antebellum Virginia • Triumph and Tragedy in Freedom: The Escape of the Peral • Georgetown University and Slavery • Solomon G. Brown and the Smithsonian Institution • Triumph and Tragedy in Freedom: Elizabeth Keckley and the Presidency • Triumph and Tragedy in Education: The Miner School • Freedpeople, the Confiscation Act, and the Contraband Camps of Washington D.C. (1862 - 1865) • The 1st United States Colored Infantry during the Civil War From Freedom to Jim Crow, 1862 – 1917 • The D.C. Emancipation Act (1862) • Major Alexander Augusta, Medicine, and the Union Army • Triumph of John Rock: First African American Lawyer before the Supreme Court • James Wormley and The Wormley Hotel • Frederick Douglas and the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company From Freedom to Jim Crow, 1862 – 1917 (Cont.) • Anna Julia Cooper, Helen Cook, and the Colored Women’s League of Washington D.C. • Mary Church Terrell and the National Association of Colored Women • Racial Integration and the Annual White House Easter Egg Hunt • The Founding of the Phyllis Wheatly YMCA (1905) • The Black Aristocracy: P.B.S. and Nina Pinchback and the Black Elite during Jim Crow • Camp Pleasant and the Associated Charites (1906) • The Founding of Black Sororities and Fraternities at Howard University • Maggie Rogers, Lillian Parks, and Working in the White House • The Howard Theater at 620 T Street • African Americans, Woodrow Wilson, and the Federal Government • Major James E. Walker and the 1st Separate Battalion of the District of Columbia National Guard • The Women Wage-Earners Association (1917) Building A Black Community, 1918 – 1945 • Washington D.C. and the Influenza Epidemic of 1918 • Georgia Douglas Johnson and Washington Literati of the Harlem Renaissance • Engine No.4: The First All-Black Firehouse and Jim Crow (1919) • The Red Summer of 1919 in Washington D.C. • Leisure and Jim Crow: Thanksgiving Day Howard-Lincoln Football Game • The National Capital Country Club for Affluent African Americans (1925) • Tea at the White House: Mrs. Jessie DePreist and First Lady Mrs. Herbert Hoover • Numa Adams and Howard Medical School • The NAACP, Jim Crow, and African American Gold Star Mothers in 1930 • National Theatre, Segregation and Porgy and Bess (1931) • Protest and the New Negro Alliance of 1933 • President Franklin Roosevelt and the Black Cabinet of the New Deal • Marion Anderson, Constitution Hall, and the Daughters of the American Revolution • A. Philip Randolph, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Executive Order 8802 • The T Street Post Office: The First All-Black Staffed Post Office in Washington D.C. • District of Columbia Redevelopment Act and the National Capital Park and Planning Commission (NCPPC) Desegregation and Urban Development, 1946 – 1970 • The Police Brutality Committee of the National Negro Congress (1947) • Mildred Lindsay, Segregation, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation • The National Theater vs. the Actor’s Equity Association • Hurd v. Hodge (1948): Housing and Black Washingtonians • Earl Lloyd and the Washington Capitols • Dr. Margaret Butcher, Dr. William Montage Cobb, and Internal Politics of the NAACP (1954) • Representative William Dawn and the House District Committee (1955) • Louis Lautier and the National Press Club • Civil Rights Act of 1957 and the Justice Department • Reverend E. Franklin Jackson and the “Day of Prayer for Merit Hiring and Abstinence from Shopping” • Ben’s Chili Bowl and the U Street Corridor • Dr. Edward W. Hawthorne and the Study of the Human Heart • The Capitol Ballet Company • The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom (1963) • Cortez Peters Sr. and African American Secretaries in the U.S. Government • Patricia Roberts Harris: The First African American Woman Ambassador • Edward William Brooke III: The First African American Senator Since 1881 (1967) • Establishment of the Anacostia Museum, Smithsonian Institution • Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Riots of 1968 • The Poor People’s Campaign of 1968 and Resurrection City • Alma Thomas and the Washington Art School • Vietnam Protests and Howard University Black Power and the Struggle for Home Rule, 1970 – 2000 • The March to Celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1971) • The Founding of the Black Congressional Congress • The Washington Chapter of the All-African People’s Revolutionary Party (1972) • D.C. Black Repertory Theater and Sweet Honey in the Rock • Black Neighborhood and the Establishment of The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA) in 1976 Black Power and the Struggle for Home Rule, 1970 – 2000 (Cont.) • The D.C. Voting Rights Amendment (1978) • Mayor Marion Berry and the District of Columbia • Robert L. Johnson and the Establishment of Black Entertainment Television • Langston Golf Course and the National Register of Historic Places • Denyce Graves and the Metropolitan Opera • The Million Man March • The African American Civil War Memorial (1998) • The Grassroots Community Activism of Barack Obama 1. Outdoor Group Shot of men and women in front of the US Capitol, circa 1948 - 1970s 2. The Poor People's Campaign of 1968, © Robert Houston 3. The Edmonson Sisters, Public Domain 4. Banneker’s Almanack and Ephemeris for the Year of Our Lord, 1793 5. Barack Obama, © 2008 Dawoud Bey All items and images are part of the Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, unless otherwise is noted. To find these more information these resources and related items, visit : https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/collection .
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