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Latino Festival A table representing United Farm Workers at a Mount Pleasant Street festival shares the cause with the community. Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552398210-F0ZY0RU8G076ZHHLMZOD/1976-hf-farmworkers_50517746892_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Same cause, two years later, a table in Kalorama Park brings the United Farm Workers, a union for farm workers, to the earliest years of the DC Latin Festival. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552363868-Q0XWOHLEOH3WCLYRFZCT/1977-admo-cpw-latfestiva031_50517579046_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Saturday dance party in Community Park West. Dancing to the music of Maria y Los Magnificos. This was before the town houses were built next to Mama Ayesha’s. You can see the row houses across Calvert Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552354572-862YTKQ7X8O3MVP75S7I/1977-aug-kalpk-146_50516861798_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Saturday afternoon Latin Festival in Kalorama Park. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552406886-V4ET8TD37MQ6F9BYIK4B/1977-aug-parade-011_50517746992_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Panama float. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552406747-XXVPBN2SG0A4SAN3ZS0P/1977-aug-parade-016_50517577871_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Paraguay Float. (c) Nancy shia,2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552426878-1MS7LMZ4SB15M0WJZN4O/1977-aug-parade-018_50517746132_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival People on the street scurry to get out of the way of the oncoming parade. Traditionally the parade begins with police on motor cycles and the carrying of the colors. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552450275-CGUAJ11BTPFWEQHBW27X/1977-aug-parade-022_50516860083_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Puerto Rican Float. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552443129-8MJ2IA5AP1Q50P79EVZW/1977-aug-parade-026_50517746032_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Paraguay Float. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552454341-IJFXGDJ8GDGUQQYNADL8/1977-aug-parade-039_50517744992_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival A truck pulls a trailer carrying a volcano, to represent the country of El Salvador. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552436911-8V1SNMJXC91QKGVPVYFV/1977-aug-parade-180_50516861748_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Looking east from above the crowd on Columbia Road, the sidewalks are filled with people as far as the eye can see. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552435021-AMYIBRSN53WNZL5P4R43/1977-aug-parade-186_50517747607_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival The excitement & anticipation for the parade to begin was always felt up and down Columbia Road where the crowds lined up and waited. The parade was always late. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552454647-OLP9XXVGB7LYMQON9GSB/1977-jul-kalpk-021_50517747432_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Kalorama Park on a Sunday afternoon, when the Latin Festival begins to slow down, the conga drummers are still going strong. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552460889-K2DBEF6T5XLLXH3G42QR/1977-jul-kalpk-022_50516861578_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Kalorama Park on a Sunday afternoon, when the Latin Festival begins to slow down, the conga drummers are still going strong. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552480047-HZMHG5WHPT5EAE9A8U3M/1977-sept-admo-gavilan-4_50516861758_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Señor Gavilan opened a bodega, first in Mount Pleasant, and then in Adams Morgan in the 1970s. Sadly, it closed in 2019. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552471087-E32FR7XIOMTLG1FUD5D4/1978-april-colrd-38_50516861393_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Zodiac Music Store was a popular place in the Latinx Community. It was run by Daniel Bueno, who relocated on Columbia Road several times before landing in on place. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552480412-63J57F8XHHKSTIYNX3IT/1980-march-admo-children897_50517578821_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Chi Shia stops her stroller at 18th & Columbia to talk with a few friends she meets along the way. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552471437-XRJJGG4016D6W19Y30HI/1983-1717elsalv_50516857193_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival The vacant building at 1717 Columbia Road was used to fly a banner condemning the government of El Salvador for its brutality in the civil war. (c) Nancy Shia,2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552474874-CV3OQBP6M1DQDKYCZFZX/1985-hf-celiacruz-arturo-18_50516861013_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival The 1985 DC Latin Festival parade marshal was Celia Cruz. She rode in the back of a convertible, mostly standing and waving to the masses who came to Columbia Road to see her. The man looking up at her adoringly is Arturo Griffiths. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552534609-5LIA4KJH91IMRBJFZCCL/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latino-festival-again_50516859373_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552529107-9DR1TGR7J44VFW3UMS40/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latino-festival-again_50516859498_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552542168-EG6BLQ0MNGZHCJ68YCAE/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latino-festival-again_50516860753_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552521173-QBFS5057R9JOLLUTKOWE/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latino-festival-again_50517745332_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552540185-RV22J6KJGOJJ8TSJWP1P/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latinx-festival-again_50516857758_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552545822-0Y7NK1GI2E87ILAWFZ4S/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latinx-festival-again_50516858583_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552561320-0IWIQX97J5NTOPZNWUF5/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latinx-festival-again_50517743587_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552568088-8X0ACN2DBM0YN4NV452Q/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latinx-festival-again_50517744007_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605552566936-FBNGWK9MNZLZTHFCAOY8/adams-morgan-hosts-dc-latinx-festival-again_50517744182_o.jpg Photo Albums - D.C. Latino Festival Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://www.outmywindowbynancyshia.org/albums/homelessness monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561649885-3IFKPN1VKWVGN49TUQWM/009_50454383093_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Rachel Wood shows her voter registration card with her address at the Gales Shelter on Massachusetts Avenue. I befriended Rachel during a demonstration at the shelter to stop the closing of the Gales Shelter in 2003. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561650764-N4GSRA4AQXSP0V74JSFE/020_50455092431_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness People march and rally in Freedom Plaza in 2003 to save the city shelters that were still downtown. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561661308-I6Q84I8J7LG09NHQG4HG/1978-admohomeless-mrlee-2_50455095716_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness For many years, Mr. Lee was the face of homelessness in Adams Morgan. He sat sometimes with bags, sometimes with nothing or just an umbrella, along the sidewalk of Columbia Road. One of his favorite places to sit was on the front steps of my apartment building. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561658568-BDMA52HS4PJ5OXS3QUD1/1978-nov--343_50454386238_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness The Community for Creative Non-Violence held an action where they set up beds for the homeless in Union Station. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561661403-D1F3KONQM0WHEESMT1T0/1978-october--305_50455095336_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Here Mr. Lee sits on the wall of a vacant building on Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561657236-0WORVFE84NWVIVP5RFU4/1980-mar-movingwomensshelter-houseofruth-156_50454385943_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness In 1980, women were displaced from a women’s shelter on Massachusetts Avenue and relocated to the House of Ruth, another women’s shelter in the same area. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561664377-NE9SW1XSSCCQXR86LF3A/1980-mar-movingwomensshelter-houseofruth-161_50455256077_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness When the women were being moved, they expressed a level of fear and distrust in making the move. They were not happy about being displaced. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561668184-JDN79CEV3BCRJNYL2V6B/1980-mar-movingwomensshelter-houseofruth-180_50455255987_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness The women were moved to The House of Ruth, which welcomed them with open arms and gave them a high level of reassurance that they would be okay in their new home. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561669172-J06L3N41N6RME4ROBJZN/1980-mar-movingwomensshelter-houseofruth-188_50455255797_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness When the women moved to The House of Ruth, the doors flew open to welcome them to their new home. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561667508-Z493MXFMBH1C1SDRDH76/1981-nov-reaganville-ccnv-078_50455255627_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness When Ronald Reagan took office, the Community for Creative Nonviolence created a spectacle in Lafayette Square they called Reaganville in the winter of 1981. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561671053-YZZ3ZWB2HZMX4FQQ76VV/1981-nov-reaganville-ccnv-088_50454385088_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness On Thanksgiving in Reagan’s first year in office, CCNV served a Thanksgiving meal to the homeless in Lafayette Park. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561672088-JHSPIHIUV06Q2A9OW4QX/1981-nov-reaganville-ccnv-094_50455094331_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Homeless people line up for a free Thanksgiving meal in Lafayette Park, a sight that had to be visible from the White House. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561671834-RADN1Y5HB30U923VEL7T/1981-nov-reaganville-ccnv-113_50455254897_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Members of the Community for Creative Non Violence serve homeless people a Thanksgiving meal in Lafayette Park. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561677064-TULO5LO5TP8AM4VQUM53/1983-1717colrd-frontporch-036_50454384573_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness By 1983, 1717 Columbia Road was a vacant building that was attracting homeless people to hang out on the front porch and drink alcohol. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561676325-4C74BF7RH13ZPMITZ5F4/1983-1717colrd-frontporch-047_50455254792_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness In 1983, there was a Panamanian American man named Terry living on the 3rd floor. Terry would often hang out on the front porch. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561684789-BA672X24QO0IAWAT9NUF/1983-ch-homeless2_50455253787_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness An old man takes his afternoon nap sitting up on the steps of 1717 Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561691470-C1TJJ9XX4GCX8SFYYWHE/1983-christhouse2_50455091766_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness While someone sleeps on the porch of 1717 Columbia Road, a group of men gather along the wall of the front yard to share drinks and conversation. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561690840-MEVTCG3ZUTVVTXIP6UEO/1983-homeless-1717-colrd003_50454380578_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Terry’s clothes are laid out on the 3rd floor of 1717 Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561683779-6SQCQPI0UXHT8CBOA9OC/1983-jul--88_50455254652_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness A Cuban Marielito man and African American woman find close friendship while hanging outside the vacant building at 1717 Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561721243-FSLGE5WX45NBFVCJZJST/1983-mitchsnyder_50454380553_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Mitch Snyder was a tireless advocate for the homeless in Washington DC and the founder of the Community for Creative Non Violence. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561689518-6Z31XOK9G557KNO178RD/1984-1717colrd-08_50455093591_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Piloto swinging the bat with his friends who hang out in front of 1717 Columbia Road NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561694842-04JCRSTY2EMJXNEWJAQE/1984-1717colrd-19_50454384593_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Piloto was a popular character. Here he sits with fellow Marielitos holding his portable radio on the front porch of 1717 Columbia Road NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561698715-8EDH8SOE00B3GR71BSUG/1984-1717colrd-homeless-5_50455093096_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Marielito Freddy was one of the regulars who hung out around 1717 Columbia Road NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561700495-LBUH9VAGU9TNEJIN2SJL/1984-1717colrd-homeless-6_50455254037_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Marielito Roberto Ortiz was one of the regulars who hung out around 1717 Columbia Road NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561702318-VBRM2Q9Q93MNCS3NGGNH/1984-1717colrd-homeless-7_50455253947_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Marielito Aurelio was one of the regulars who hung out around 1717 Columbia Road NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561702440-4CJX1FJO1ML902Q22Z66/1984-1717colrd-homeless-8_50455253812_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Marielito Jacinto was one of the regulars who hung out around 1717 Columbia Road NW. Jacinto had a serious alcohol problem and seemed to always be instigating something. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561705563-185S3ZRSXT8FC14VF8AS/1984-sept-reaganvilleinlafpk-5_50455253512_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Reaganville was again created in Lafayette Park in the summer of 1984, to draw attention to the number of people who have died of hypothermia due to homelessness. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561708119-1VUHXTBSJQ3B1RROX812/1984-sept-reaganvilleinlafpk-7_50455253502_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Tents were set up in Lafayette Park to house the homeless in the summer of 1984. They also put up mock tombstones signifying the number of people who have dies in each state. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561705250-98CBCKOHIED4TWROX4UX/2003-lacasa_50516557291_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness The La Casa Shelter on Irving Street NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561706512-NBOQ4KHDG9CVCZ5WF74N/2003-lacasatrailers_50516728137_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Entrance to the trailer section of La Casa Shelter on Irving Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561707754-PB72CEQK2HXS0RWK3K15/2010-behindlacasa_50516557191_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness When La Casa Shelter was closed, makeshift shelters grew up in the alley behind the shelter. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561711018-WMS8OXNBKCYNXDT8178R/2010-lacasacloses_50516728277_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Signs on the front door of the shelter on the Irving Street side. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561714845-ISW21YOP9LOMRQR5F0GT/2010-lineinalley-lacasashelter_50516557306_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Residents of La Casa Shelter were forced to line up in the alley in back of the shelter to enter each night. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561709136-OAZ7K66DJOE935VWWYGT/dx-07_50454380253_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness People hold up banners and signs in Freedom Plaza asking the government not to close the downtown shelters, but rather to renovate them in 2003. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561710446-8JDZS288160RG35PP6DW/dx-10_50455250572_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness A people’s banner pleads with the city to keep shelters open in the upcoming winter in 2003. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561710388-DR5G2C1ACPLZWQLMKIOK/dx-11_50455250502_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness An elderly man carries a sign in Freedom Plaza at the rally to keep the downtown shelters open in 2003. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561711594-125PD5B9JTWHBGDONRUL/dx-17_50455250442_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness “Imagine how you would feel to sleep on the street!!!” A sign held by a homeless woman in Freedom Plaza across the street from the John Wilson DC Government Building. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561713274-YH3CW4Y4FBB90IGMIHSA/dx-22_50454380138_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Brian Anders and Linda Leaks, two longtime housing organizers in DC, rally in Freedom Plaza to ask the DC Council to keep the downtown shelters open in 2003. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605561713029-SJYIVB0IDJ2BOB2IKGD8/dx-30_50455250382_o.jpg Photo Albums - Homelessness Demonstrator carries a sign addressed to Mayor Williams. “Don’t close Gales Shelter,” the sign implores. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://www.outmywindowbynancyshia.org/albums/gentrification monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560340058-UC5LQBGJCKPL3YK1PVRB/1973-willardstreet009_50455229222_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560169089-BULUSP1RKSTK28BGYDA7/1977--54-housingmarch_50455234832_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The Fight Back organization tables at 18th & Columbia while the housing march passes by. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560170203-5STV7JJB86FLD0M4KONJ/1977--59-housingmarch_50455074206_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The housing march began on Mintwood Place in Adams Morgan. When it reached the corner of 18th and Columbia, Council member Dave Clarke is seen marching while walking his bicycle. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560170209-K9L1YOWXV28X2YY7RFOB/1977--60-housingmarch_50455074051_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The housing march passes by construction of Perpetual Bank at the crossroads of Adams Morgan. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560169666-FBCAFL1LTTP2OO36RN6I/1977--89-housingmarch_50454364698_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The housing march passes by the Safeway in the 1700 block of Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560169951-6BI7JD3KRLYG1IFGCT6K/1977--103-housingmarch_50454364433_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Small children were always included in protests and demonstrations. The only stroller available was a foldable lightweight aluminum one you could carry on a bus. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560174593-4MW29WTUZV4WSAU6AAZ0/1977--109-housingmarch_50454364318_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The Powerful Promise But Don’t Deliver was a sign carried in several housing demonstrations in the neighborhood. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560175103-LZ0QWXBBON2D702ENOK2/1977--114-housingmarch_50455233862_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The iconic WE ARE NOT MOVING OUT sign is carried on 16th Street during the housing march to the landlord’s home on 15th Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560178376-9U5M11RNWQRHYKCW2XLV/1977--126-housingmarch_50455072766_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The housing march walks up Euclid Street, one block away from the landlord’s house where they were going to demonstrate. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560179263-GW7722XITZGODXKG9NNY/1977-apr-bpour_50455233387_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification When the community heard that the public square at 18th & Columbia was being sold to BP to have a gas station, there was a united front from everyone not to have a gas station. We negotiated and got the bank, along with an agreement for them to stop redlining. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560177169-58FURL94HRFUGD4JEQ6Q/1978-april-euclidst438_50454362748_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Children hang out on the front steps of their family’s row house on Euclid Street NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560181224-0ONPSYHZIAIH9WIA2TT6/1978-kenesaw-a-symbol_50455071936_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Marisa Peres stands in front of a banner in front of the Kenesaw Apartment Building at 16th & Irving & Mt Pleasant Streets. The story of the struggles of the people to own this building could fill a book. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560180108-MUYW6SRQJMUQGH96R4FA/1979-adams-morgan-day_50455071841_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification At the second Adams Morgan Day, there were booths dedicated to tenants' organizations and the people's struggles to own their own homes. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560181905-ZYJSAO23ROZECUIIJW9I/1980-councilhearingonrentcntrl55_50454362483_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification When Council was taking about the issue of rent control, tenant organizations encouraged their members to attend the hearings. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560185242-9LAC0Y62USLE8YPSC66S/1980-feb-demoathilton-17_50455071636_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification When the Washington Hilton tried to buy property adjacent to the hotel, the neighbors rose up and had a demonstration in the block around the Hilton and in the front. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560189033-HTG996L1IYFITZ2DCAE4/1980-feb-demoathilton-28_50455071566_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Neighbors of the Washington Hilton were determined to not let it expand into our neighborhood and threaten our school.(c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560189162-KMLNY7BAL8HHBL6VPXVZ/1980-feb-demoathilton-31_50455071521_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Frank Smith, Dave Clarke and David Barrows march together to stop the Washington Hilton from taking away a piece of our neighborhood. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560188640-MAJGDNKN15J5MYA9Q7SX/1980-imperialdemo-03_50455071501_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The Imperial Tenants Association struggled to gain control of their building. They held demonstrations on the sidewalk outside the building on Columbia Road near 18th Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560189671-C98OKYJMQO8B2FUP5UXY/1980-imperialdemo-05_50455232067_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification At a demonstration outside the Imperial apartment building on Columbia Road, a sign defiant about gentrification and a profile distant image of Council member Hilda Mason of the DC Statehood Green Party. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560189720-G7ZPRPWYJ4XY174FGOZH/1980-imperialdemo-10_50455231947_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Neighborhood people march and protest in front of the Imperial Apartment Building on Columbia Road, calling for the landlord to sell the building to the tenants. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560193311-CWDXE0JS52CWRDAHUAU4/1980-jun-mintwoodtenantsrally-09_50454361688_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The tenants on Mintwood Place were the most active and had actions and demonstrations. This may have been a block party. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560193379-N8U6UOA4S6HMHSAGLL63/1980-marchtodravillas33_50455070916_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Dravillas was the real estate agent who collected money from the tenants of the Imperial, a building of low income mainly Spanish speaking tenants. The sign translates, Why do dogs live better than people? (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560193897-C4KNASJ4X3TQ02PBOKLB/1980-marchtodravillas34_50455070471_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Adams Morgan residents protest in front of the office of Dravillas Realty on Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560194559-8QP5Q5H95O1E1ZKUUKJT/1980-marchtodravillas40_50454360663_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Casilda Luna addresses the people gathered in front of the Dravillas Realty building to talk about the part Dravillas was playing to intimidate the tenants in the Imperial. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560195569-RXGIAVO2A2ROVKTG8XHR/1980-parquefarabundomarti3_50454409548_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560196545-238MY8ZELP22DFFO4QEQ/1981-mar-kennesaw-housing-725_50455069181_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification A few years after the people of the Kenesaw began the struggle to own their building, they were still carrying on the struggle to keep owning it. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560200092-KKLQ09FPVLE7ST4TMQLY/1981-mar-kennesaw-housing-726_50454359898_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Their message stays the same, The powerful promise but don’t deliver. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560197444-JQUTG5FO08PBGKCHDJ4K/1982-mar12-shaw--7_50455069111_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The Anthony Bowen Y is boarded up. The intention of the YMCA was to sell the building and close the Y. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560199111-4ABQJQHCNIFXCTJLEZ5W/1982-mar12-shaw--9_50455229777_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification When the community heard about the Y closing, they started to organize so that we would not lose a YMCA in the neighborhood. And to organize to turn the building into something worthy of its historical importance in the African American community where it was located. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560199262-VMNPAHWLR0VQHG4GF8AX/1982-mar12-shaw--18_50455229707_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Even after it closed, a couple of young boys are hanging around outside the building, perhaps hoping for a miraculous reopening. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560200728-L3NS5TH5OSEEPTTBF9OP/1982-mar12-shaw--21_50455229677_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification Even after the windows have been boarded up, the front stairs remain open and the columns exposed. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560202898-PTXEAKKZIJBMMVFA8C5B/1982-mar12-shaw--22_50455229637_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification The building is located on 12th Street NW between S and T Streets. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560203021-YBGML2J6OPD1A3VWTWPN/1982-mar12-shaw--23_50454359603_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification For many years the Bowen Y was the only place African American soldiers could stay in DC when they needed a room or a place for the night. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560210117-UZHEUHDWGD711BZX9D40/1983-admo-thebeacon024_50455068146_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification After the tenants fought the good fight in the Beacon apartment building located between Calvert Street and Adams Mill Road, after they all moved out, some leaving their furniture and other personal items because they had to move out quickly, what was left was writing on the wall, a reminder that everyone did not just go quietly into the night. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560206885-CZM3VNIR8AZTOUFWP4EY/1984-anevictionjul--22_50455068836_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification An eviction on Ontario Road NW, with Columbia Road in the background. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560207395-GHNA0EC1WE2YVQSZYRZ6/1984-jul--20_50455068696_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification An eviction on Ontario Road, with Lanier Place in the background. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605560205118-PPEU8G0RWN43G74JE3X5/show-73-willard-2_50455065451_o.jpg Photo Albums - Gentrification A demonstration against gentrification on Willard Street, NW, in what was then Adams Morgan, now Dupont Circle. The demonstration was organized by RAP, Incorporated. RAP, or Regional Addiction Program, was an organization started by Ron Brown in Adams Morgan. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://www.outmywindowbynancyshia.org/albums/mt-pleasant-uprising monthly 0.5 2021-01-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637319701-HJGYHSWA5KDJT4HKSJZX/8-1991-5-6-mtp_riots-fuckpolice-07b_50455135951_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising The light of the next day revealed the wall writing of one of the rioters. The DC Latinx community did not have a good relationship with the police. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637355620-FACLOTXGMQRN4TDK1VDN/1991-5-5-mtp_riots01b_50454429163_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising Police huddle on Mt Pleasant Street as their vans burn on 16th Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637334791-TAP2HI8JPAC35FP9BR92/1991-5-5-mtp_riots009c_50455137871_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising Man who was carrying big stick makes his move while photographer looks the other way or is ducking tear gas bombs. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637346894-X980Q13V49YJ0CTFFB4H/1991-5-5-mtp_riots011a_50455137846_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising #2. Police Van On Fire on 16th Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637356586-68K91CG79RC3J5R85C69/1991-5-5-mtp_riots012c_50455298787_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising Officer points to someone among the crowd of people on Mt Pleasant Street during the first night of rioting. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637357792-FIN1E0DPPT0YF9E2CL3K/1991-5-5-mtp_riots013b_50455137446_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising Police Van On Fire on 16th Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637356658-CEXSQ5FGJPS141R0PQC6/1991-5-5-mtp_riots017a_50455298667_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising Man carries a big stick during first night of rioting on Mt Pleasant Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637373398-9B69AHC2XQ2OYTAC2U7N/1991-5-6-mtp_riots003a_50454428223_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising On the second night, civil unrest spread from Mount Pleasant to Columbia Road in Adams Morgan. The police drew their line where they would not let people pass at the corner of Ontario Road and Columbia Road, just a little before they would have reached the Safeway and other commercial storefronts. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637371163-F38ZZ5RPZHVLLUTZAX4A/1991-5-6-mtp_riots006b_50454428093_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising On the second night, civil unrest spread from Mount Pleasant to Columbia Road in Adams Morgan. The police drew their line where they would not let people pass at the corner of Ontario Road and Columbia Road, just a little before they would have reached the Safeway and other commercial storefronts. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637374939-DPVHWDN8AE8OAZ472NY0/1991-time_ofmtp_riots024b_50455271802_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising A week after the initial disturbances, the streets were still full of people. Reverend Jesse Jackson talks with a top brass of the Metropolitan Police Department at the corner of Columbia and Ontario Roads. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637367099-J0ORNFF4LRT5WEGT20NQ/1992-mtpmarchreriots098_50455110786_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising One year after the Mount Pleasant riots, the community held a march and protest demanding the same things that people rioted for a year earlier. The march walked up Mount Pleasant Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637367081-6ZIKH2DNUUC9YA77XKNZ/1992-mtpmarchreriots099-2_50454401063_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising One year after the Mount Pleasant riots, the community held a march and protest demanding the same things that people rioted for a year earlier. The march walked up Mount Pleasant Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637367865-H3I2OA0MBB7R0G8I0CE9/1992-mtpmarchreriots102-2_50455110386_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising One year after the Mount Pleasant riots, the community held a march and protest demanding the same things that people rioted for a year earlier. The march walked up Mount Pleasant Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637374013-JSE5G62YHLX3PE9HU1Z1/1992-mtpmarchreriots103-2_50455109386_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising One year after the Mount Pleasant riots, the community held a march and protest demanding the same things that people rioted for a year earlier. The march walked up Mount Pleasant Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5f9dcbc7efa1712cfe17ec74/1605637370954-BX3A6SQJI7GLOT9733BM/2001-mtpleasantriotsmem150_50455108656_o.jpg Photo Albums - Mt. Pleasant Uprising Ten years after the Mount Pleasant riots happened, the community gathered in Lamont Park to commemorate the riots. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020