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The Riots in Georgetown, 1905
Account of a strike and subsequent riots. Digitized full text (26 pages) of the original 1905 edition from Google Books.
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC34902297&id=356GcowzN0UC

History of the Kennedy Center
History of efforts to create a national performing arts center. Text of 1980 article by Roger Meersman.
http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/History+of+the+Kennedy+Center.htm

Portraits of a City
Thousands of photographs of black Washington spanning the 20th century, drawn from the archives of the Scurlock Studio. Images are searchable. From the Smithsonian American Museum of American History Web site.
http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/scurlock/index.html

20th Century Washington
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. [Audio files]
http://www.wamu.org/programs/mc/special/20th_century_washington.php

Garfinckel s: A History of America s Store
Memorabilia of the venerable Washington, DC, department store.
http://www.garfinckels.com/

McMillan Commission Report (1902)
Unabridged text of the Senate committee report that proposed a plan for the development of the National Mall and central Washington that is largely responsible for their current appearance. [PDF]
http://www.nationalmall.net/resource/mcmillan.html

Vietnam Veterans Memorial: District of Columbia
Lists those killed in the Vietnam War from the District of Columbia.
http://grunt.space.swri.edu/statewall/washdc/dc.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.
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/thchtml/thhome.html

Snapshots of a Washington Century
Recollections of 20th century Washington by four longtime residents, with photos. From the Washington Post.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/oralhistory/historyfront.htm

Washington Century
Series of 26 articles from 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.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/index2000.htm

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.
http://www.library.cornell.edu/Reps/DOCS/parkcomm.htm

Duke Ellington s Washington
The black community in Ellington s time and a tour of the Shaw neighborhood where he grew up. Companion site to PBS documentary.
http://www.pbs.org/ellingtonsdc

City Beautiful: The 1901 Plan for Washington, D.C.
Brief article on the 1901 McMillan Plan to beautify the city s monumental core.
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~cap/citybeautiful/plan.html