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Home / Regional / North America / United States / Washington, DC / Society and Culture / History / 20th Century
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- City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C. - Brief article on the 1901 McMillan Plan to beautify the city's monumental core, inspired by the City Beautiful urban design movement.
xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/plan.html
- Duke Ellington's Washington - Describes the black community in Ellington's time and offers a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up. Companion site to PBS documentary.
www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc
- McMillan Commission Plan for Washington in 1902 - The Senate Parks Commission, chaired by Sen. James McMillan, developed a plan for the Mall and central Washington that is largely responsible for their current appearance. The site has extensive excerpts from the commission report.
www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/parkcomm.htm
- Snapshots of a Washington Century - Recollections of 20th century Washington by four longtime residents, accompanied by photos. From the Washington Post.
washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/oralhistory/historyfront.htm
- WAMU: Metro Connection: 20th Century Washington - Ten-part radio series covers the McMillan Plan, the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, race relations in the 1920s, the 1932 Bonus March, World War II, the desegregation of Thompson's Restaurant in the 1950s, 1960s freeway battles, the fight for self-government in the 1970s, the Marion Barry years, and late-century demographic trends. Originally broadcast on the WAMU radio program Metro Connection. RealAudio format.
www.wamu.org/mc/century.html
- Washington Century - Series of 26 articles in the Washington Post looks back at life during the 20th century, from the 1919 race riot to the "government girls" of World War II to suburban development.
washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/index2000.htm
- Washington As It Was - Over 14,000 photographs by Theodor Horydczak are in this Library of Congress collection and can be viewed and searched online. They document architecture and social life from the 1920s to the 1950s, including views of commercial, residential, and government buildings, street scenes and neighborhoods.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html
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