Barry Farm-Hillsdale in Anacostia: A Historic African American Community
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Discover the history of one of the oldest Black communities in Washington, D.C.
Barry Farm-Hillsdale was created under the auspices of the Freedmen's Bureau in 1867, in what was then the outskirts of the nation's capital. Residents built churches and schools and the community grew throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries. In the 1940s local youth courageously desegregated the Anacostia Pool and Barry Farm Dwellings was built to house war workers. In the 1950s community parents joined the fight to desegregate schools in Washington, D.C. as local leaders fought off plans to redevelop the area. Residents of Barry Farm Dwellings, then public housing, were at the forefront of the fight to improve their lives and those of their neighbors in the 1960s, but community identity was beginning to be subsumed into the larger Anacostia neighborhood.
Historian and Anacostia Community Museum curator Alcione Amos tells these little remembered stories.
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