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Reopening of D.C.'s WWI Memorial E-mail

On November 10, 2011, D.C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Mayor Vincent Gray, and Council Chairman Kwame Brown joined Bob Vogel, Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks for the U.S. Park Service in reopening the District of Columbia World War I Memorial on the Mall. The District of Columbia, like all the states, funded and buit its own memorial to its soldiers who fought in the "Great War."  The memorial was built on the Mall and the National Park Service was charged with its maintenance.  After falling into great disrepair, the Congress authorized the cleaning, realnscaping and repair of the memorial.  For information on the efforts by some to make it the "national" World War I memorial and deprive the residents of D.C. of their memorial to their soldiers, see the November 10, 2011 article by Tom Howell of The Washington Times entitled "D.C. fights for World War I memorial."

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Frank Kameny, D.C. Statehood Hero E-mail

Frank Kameny, D.C. Statehood Hero

Frank Kameny, a great D.C. statehood hero as well as human rights and gay rights acitvist, died October 11, 2011.

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History of D.C.'s Flag E-mail

D.C. historian, Mark David Richards wrote the following article about the history of the flag of the District of Columbia.

http://www.dcwatch.com/richards/0106f.htm

The Flag of the District of Columbia

Prepared by Mark David Richards,  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

A Dream, Bureaucracy, Agitation, and a Flag

In their own little ways, DC citizens have always been dreaming about and agitating for equal rights. In 1917, while working for a printing firm on a flag book for the 48 states, Charles A. R. Dunn noticed there was no flag for his DC home. In 1921 he sketched a design using George Washington's Coat of Arms, with three red stars above two red stripes on a white field. At that time, the Voteless League was set up by former women’s suffrage campaigners--they became the Voteless League of Women Voters of DC. By 1924, there was "considerable agitation" for a DC flag. The Evening Star printed Dunn's drawings. The Fine Arts Commission weighed in, saying a DC flag must emphasize that "DC is the seat of the central government of all states." Dr. William Tindall of the DC government pointed out that the 3 stars could be said to represent the 3 federal branches. The issue, unresolved, died down. But the drive for rights did not. Theodore W. Noyes, in a nationwide WMAL radio address in March 1929, asked "Will not every red-blooded American who hears me tonight respond hopefully and vigorously to the District’s appeal for political equality? How long, O Americans, must we of Washington be compelled to say and to sing: ‘My county, ‘tis of thee Not land of liberty, For District folks; Where rights for which the fathers died Are now denied and crucified, Mock’d at as jokes’?"

A 1930s drive for Congressional voting rights and home rule led to a flurry of articles and comics. The DC commissioners were called "a national laughing stock," and the DC govt. an ineffective "Adventure in Autocracy." In 1933, young African-American college grads from the U Street community organized the New Negro Alliance, demanding that businesses hire some people they served. They picketed businesses and were arrested. It took until 1938 for African-American lawyers to establish the legal right to picket by the Supreme Court. Also in 1938, a Citizens’ Conference of 271 local organizations financed a plebiscite with two questions—"[D]o you want to vote for President and for members of Congress from the District of Columbia?, and do you want to vote for officials of your own city government in the District?" The District Suffrage League set up voting places in 38 public schools, and on April 29th dressed up like Paul Revere and paraded in the streets to publicize the event. 95,538 people voted on April 30th, most supporting both measures. In June 1938, a Flag Commission was created by Act of Congress to advise the Commission of Fine Arts. A contest was announced. The Heraldic Division of the War Department laid down rules. Dunn submitted his design. The Flag Commission couldn't decide between two designs, so they submitted both to the Commission on Fine Arts. In October, a joint meeting of the 2 Commissions chose Dunn's design. Along with the US flag, DC could now fly their flag along with the other 48. They gained an early symbol, but still no vote in their schools, in their local government, nor in Congress. In 1961, Dunn said "I think it is a good flag, and I am glad that an early dream of mine came true."

 
Capital Injustice E-mail

Professor Kate Masur of Northwestern University wrote an op-ed, which was published in the March 28, 2011 edition of The New York Times, noting the 50th anniversary of the ratification of the 23rd amendment to the Constitution and the continuing lack of democracy in the District of Columbia.  Her op-ed was entitled "Capital Injustice."

The 23rd amendment gave D.C. residents a limited vote for President for the first time since 1800. She writes that "(t)he anniversary is worth remembering, both because the amendment was an important step toward full political equality for citizens of the nation’s capital and because it was frustratingly incomplete. A half-century later, the District of Columbia’s population, estimated in the new census at 601,723, is larger than Wyoming’s and only slightly smaller than Vermont’s. Yet Washingtonians still have no meaningful voice in Congress and lack full authority over their own affairs."

The reasons for this are indifference and ignorance by the American public of D.C.'s lack of full political rights, partisanship in Congress, and race.  "A half-century after the dawn of the civil rights era, many Americans still have a hard time seeing African-Americans as citizens entitled to the rights that so many white people take for granted. For residents of a place once known as “Chocolate City,” these attitudes are a sadly familiar obstacle to equality."

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TO MAKE A STATE OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA (1902) E-mail
Nikolas Schiller has undertaken to transcribe a number of old documents regarding the District of Columbia and D.C.'s quest for statehood.  Among those documents is a New York Times article from December 14, 1902.  For his collection of D.C. documents, go to: http://www.nikolasschiller.com/blog/index.php/archives/category/dc-history/
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