An Article By Jason I. Newman And Jacques B. DePuy, Published In The Spring 1975 Edition Of The American

An article by Jason I. Newman and Jacques B. DePuy, published in the Spring 1975 edition of the American University Law Reviewl (volume 24, number 3). It offers a legislative history of the District of Columbia, with references to specifically named laws and statutes; this is followed by a lengthy, in-depth, and rather dense analysis of the Home Rule Act of 1973.

How I feel about school today.

I've already read a lot of these, but some - Children of Cardozo, Ten Years Since, The Response of the Washington, D.C. Community - are new to me, since they're retrospectives. Either way, it's good to catalog this here so I can easily find them again.

That's actually kind of inaccurate, because during lunch with a fellow grad student (the only other civil rights historian in my department), I came up with chapters for my dissertation (I threw in some explanatory links for the nerd-uninitiated).

1. Pre-1945 District home rule activism 2. 1945-1960 demographic shifts 3. 1945-1960 civil rights activism in the District 4. SNCC, Black Power, and D.C. 5. The Twenty-Third Amendment 6. D.C. gets a School Board and House Delegate 7. The District Home Rule Act of 1973

I rock. And because it's Friday, I think that's enough for one day.

So I figured out the name of the law that granted the District the right to elect its own board of education: District of Columbia Elected Board of Education Act, approved April 22, 1968; Public Law 90-292, 82 Stat. 101. This link is President Johnson's remarks upon signing the bill.

It's important to note that Dr. King was assassinated on April 4; riots erupted in Washington and continued through April 12. After some public uncertainty about whether the protest would continue, the SCLC's Poor People's Campaign began on the National Mall on May 12. This is the atmosphere in which this bill was signed, and it's equally important to note that after an oblique reference to the city "in crisis," President Johnson openly calls for congressional representation and home rule for the District.

This GPO pamphlet also seems like it may be important later on, although I'm unsure of how to use it now.

womp womp

I need a Rudwick to my Meier. I bet he'd make writing a lot more fun and interesting.

In other news, I hate lit review. It's the part holding up this first prospectus draft, and makes my insides want to die.