BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Shaw neighborhood

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1. SHAW_100703_17.JPG: Midcity at the Crossroads Shaw Heritage Trail #8 Reading and Riting and Rithmetic Seventh and R Streets, NW Wrapping the corner of Seventh and Rhode Island is Asbury Dwellings for senior citizens. In 1901 the building opened as the city's white-only McKinley Technical School, memorializing slain President William McKinley (1843-1901). In 1928 the "colored" school system took over the building for a new Shaw Junior High, honoring Robert Gould Shaw. Shaw was the white commander of the Civil War Union Army's 54th Massachusetts regiment of black soldiers. Shaw's acclaimed faculty included abstract artist Alma W. Thomas (1891-1978), who taught there from 1924 until 1960. Today her paintings hang in renowned art museums worldwide. As time passed, the school became overcrowded and rundown, and parents protested for better accommodations. Finally in 1977 a new Shaw Junior High opened on Rhode Island Avenue. Asbury United Methodist Church opened the rehabilitated Asbury Dwellings for senior housing in 1982. During the segregation era (1880-1954), the Shaw neighborhood was a center of black education.M Street High School, the nation's first high school (1870) for black students, operated nearby. Three important high schools succeeded M Street -- Cardozo (business), Dunbar (academic), and Armstrong (technical). Thousands of southern families migrated here specifically for the schools, where teachers with advanced degrees found work denied them by discriminatory colleges and universities. The library building at Rhode Island Avenue and Seventh St. honors plumbing businessman Watha T. Daniel (1911-1973). Daniel was a leader of the Model Inner City Community Organization, an early 1960s coalition founded by Revs.Walter Fauntroy and Ernest Gibson to ensure that the poor would have a say in the urban renewal of Shaw.
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Wikipedia Description: Shaw, Washington, D.C.
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Shaw is a neighborhood in Northwest, Washington, D.C. It is roughly bounded by M Street NW to the south; New Jersey Avenue NW to the east; Florida Avenue NW to the north; and 11th Street NW to the west--although there is a westward panhandle that extends to 16th Street between S Street and Florida Avenue. Shaw once included the areas of smaller neighborhoods, such as Logan Circle and Truxton Circle, but in recent years those neighborhoods have grown into their own and become separate from Shaw.

History:

Shaw grew out of freed slave encampments in the rural outskirts of Washington City. It was named after Civil War Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, the commander of the 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry.

Shaw thrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the pre-Harlem center of African-American intellectual and cultural life. Howard Theological Seminary received its first matriculates in 1866; by 1925, Professor Alain Locke was advancing the idea of "The New Negro," and Langston Hughes was descending from Le Droit Park to hear the "sad songs" of 7th Street. The most famous Shaw native to emerge from this period—sometimes called the Black Renaissance of DC—was Duke Ellington.

Following the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., on April 4, 1968, riots erupted in many D.C. neighborhoods, including Shaw, Columbia Heights, and the H Street NE Corridor. The 1968 Washington, D.C. riots marked the beginning of a decline in population and development that would condemn much of the inner city to a generation of economic decay.

Shaw, like Logan Circle, is a mostly residential neighborhood of 19th century Victorian row houses. The allure of these houses, Shaw's central location, and the booming D.C. housing market have begun to transform Shaw through gentrification. According to Census records from 1970, 92% of Shaw's residents were black; in 2000, 56% were black . Shaw's notable ...More...
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2010 photos: My office at the main Commerce Department building closed in October and I was shifted out to the Bureau of the Census in Suitland Maryland. It's good to have a job of course but that killed being able to see basically any cultural events during the day. There's basically nothing of interest that you can see around the Census building. Overnight trips this year: Civil War Trust conferences (Lexington, KY and Nashville, TN), and my 5th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Los Angeles). Equipment this year: I mostly used the Fuji S100fs until the third one broke and I started sending them back for repairs. Then I used either the Fuji S200EHX or the Nikon D90 until I got the S100fs ones repaired. At the end of the year I bought a Nikon D5000 but I returned it pretty quickly. Number of photos taken this year: about 395,000..
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