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ACT attempts to end employment discrimination at the DC DMV, February 1965.

ACT chairman Julius Hobson writes to United Planning Organization director James Banks that his program is ineffective at providing immediate relief or employment to poor people, September 23, 1964.

District of Columbia voting precincts, 1963.

DC CORE campaign for fair hiring practices at PEPCO and Washington Gas & Light, 1962.

There were almost Freedom Rides in Maryland in the fall of 1961.

DC CORE gets real gangster with The Hecht Company about hiring discrimination, 1961.

Ah! James Baldwin wrote a letter to Julius Hobson and signed it! And I got to touch Jimmy's real life signature! Ah!

DC CORE Steering Committee meeting minutes on the expulsion of Julius Hobson, May 22, 1964

Meeting minutes of Washington Home Rule Committee, August 8 and September 12, 1963

Recent Activities of DC CORE Housing Committee, November 38, 1963

Minutes from National Temporary Freedom Day Committee meeting, Chester, PA, March 14, 1964

Minutes from 1962 National CORE Convention

I have to finish this for her

I just realized that I'm sitting here, researching my dissertation in the same library where my grandmother worked as a janitor for twenty years. So humbled. "Still I rise."

Minutes from a November 12, 1963 meeting of the Washington chapter of CORE.

Beyond today’s festive scene in this neighborhood by the Tiber River is a somber and not so ancient past for the city’s Jews.

http://www.annenbergclassroom.org/Files/Documents/Books/Our%20Constitution/Twentythird%20Amendment_Our%20Constitution.pdf

How on God's green earth did I miss this last January? Oh, wait. I remember. I was rushing back from my grandmother's funeral to take my comprehensive exam that ended up being pushed back a week.

But. I suppose all that matters is that I've found it now. Right.

“This is a picture of my dream. Becoming the first Muslim (hijabi) woman news anchor on American television. This is what I want my future to look like inshallah. For those of you who have known me for a long time, you know that this is what I’ve wanted for years! Since I was a kid! And this is what I’m working towards. So thank you to all of my friends and family who support me. I truly appreciate all of you. I hope you continue to stick with me throughout my upcoming endeavors :)”

Noor Tagouri

Still waiting for prospectus approval to proceed on the dissertation. So much for my June 1 deadline.

Guess who has two thumbs and finished her first (very good, I think) draft of her prospectus? That's right.

THIS GIRL.

Just waiting for feedback from my committee.

How does James Baldwin still manage to be the truth from fifty years ago?

Funny how a UTI can stop you dead in your tracks for days. Very little writing and very little reading happened this week, although some did. But just sitting or sleeping is uncomfortable.

Back to work on Sunday, probably. I'm so close.

Only two more chapter outlines to go! All that's left is chapter 1 on 1945-1960 activism and demographic shifts and chapter 5 on post-riots legislative gains. I can only write about one of these a day so far.

I can't wait to be done.

Marion Barry: The King of DC - Marcus Simon