This Supreme Court Case Ruled That Restrictive Covenants Were Illegal In Washington, DC.

This Supreme Court case ruled that restrictive covenants were illegal in Washington, DC.

official titles of congressional laws pertaining to the District

The 23rd Amendment S.J. Res. 39 of the 86th Congress passed June 16, 1960, ratified March 29, 1961

"DC gets a school board" District of Columbia Board of Education Act, Public Law 90-292, 82 Stat. 101 signed April 22, 1968 

Home Rule Act of 1973 District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, P.L. 93-198 signed December 24, 1973 

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Between 1945 and 1973, the District of Columbia underwent changes at a level that it had not experienced since the Civil War transformed the political and social landscape of the city. After dismantling the Jim Crow segregation of schools and public accommodations the Deep South would continue to battle decades later, the city’s governing structure also changed dramatically, with citizens of all races gaining long-denied voting and representational rights. Although Washington had long been home to active movements for civil rights and legislative autonomy from Congress, these movements remained largely separate until the District became a majority-minority city in the 1950s. How did the confluence of these pre-existing rights movements, post-war demographic shifts and the prominence of a national civil rights movement contribute to the District of Columbia’s unprecedented gains in civil and representational rights by 1973?

After going back and looking at it, I think the second sentence is wonky and misplaced, and should be moved, deleted or re-written, but I don't feel like doing it right now. Thoughts?

This edition reproduces the files of the NAACP legal department regarding complaints about segregation and exclusion in places of public accommodation and recreation between 1940 and 1955. Highlights of the National Committee on Segregation in the Nation's Capital file include the committee's opposition to a plan to segregate D.C. parks in 1949. There is also a major report drafted by the committee that covers the broad subject of race relations in the District in 1949, with a special emphasis on housing segregation. This committee, founded in 1946, included E. Franklin Frazier, Charles H. Houston, Hubert Humphrey, Mordecai Johnson, Peter Odegard, Walter Reuther and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Lit review is finished! Now all that's left are three chapter descriptions, citations, and anticipated sources.