Democracy's Capital
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1960s
1968 Presidential election
1968 riots
1970s
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Black Power Washington
Black United Front
Board of Trade Washington
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Chocolate City
civil rights movement Washington
community control
convention center Washington
crime Washington
D.C.
D.C. Statehood
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
desegregation Washington
discrimination Washington
Downtown Progress
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grassroots activism
Great Society
home rule
John Ehrlichman
John Mitchell
Julius Hobson
local organizing
Lyndon Johnson civil rights movement
Lyndon Johnson law and order
Marion Barry
Pennsylvania Avenue
policing Washington
Poor People's Campaign
Protest Washington
racism Washington
Ramsey Clark
Richard Nixon law and order
Segregation Washington
self-determination
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Sterling Tucker
Stokely Carmichael
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
the carceral state
urban development Washington
urban renewal Washington
Walter Fauntroy
Walter Washington
War on Crime
War on Poverty
Welfare rights
Product details
- ISBN 9781469653907
- Weight: 558g
- Dimensions: 154 x 231mm
- Publication Date: 30 Nov 2019
- Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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From its 1790 founding until 1974, Washington, D.C.--capital of "the land of the free--lacked democratically elected city leadership. Fed up with governance dictated by white stakeholders, federal officials, and unelected representatives, local D.C. activists catalyzed a new phase of the fight for home rule. Amid the upheavals of the 1960s, they gave expression to the frustrations of black residents and wrestled for control of their city. Bringing together histories of the carceral and welfare states, as well as the civil rights and Black Power movements, Lauren Elizabeth Pearlman narrates this struggle for self-determination in the nation's capital. She captures the transition from black protest to black political power under the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations and against the backdrop of local battles over the War on Poverty and the War on Crime.
Through intense clashes over funds and programming, Washington residents pushed for greater participatory democracy and community control. However, the anticrime apparatus built by the Johnson and Nixon administrations curbed efforts to achieve true home rule. As Pearlman reveals, this conflict laid the foundation for the next fifty years of D.C. governance, connecting issues of civil rights, law and order, and urban renewal.
Through intense clashes over funds and programming, Washington residents pushed for greater participatory democracy and community control. However, the anticrime apparatus built by the Johnson and Nixon administrations curbed efforts to achieve true home rule. As Pearlman reveals, this conflict laid the foundation for the next fifty years of D.C. governance, connecting issues of civil rights, law and order, and urban renewal.
Lauren Pearlman is assistant professor of history at the University of Florida.
