I've Already Read A Lot Of These, But Some - Children Of Cardozo, Ten Years Since, The Response Of The

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.

How I feel about school today.

Records from the Senate's Committee on the District of Columbia from 1816-1972. Of special note are records from the Radical Republican-controlled Senate of the Reconstruction era (the Senate fought for Kate Brown, one of their employees, to be able to ride on whites-only trains) and records on the nonstop flow of home rule bills considered after the LEgislative Reorganization Act of 1946.

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 

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.

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.