Social Justice - White House Historical Association

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Collection Protest at the People's House

For more than a century, thousands of Americans have gathered in Lafayette Park across from the White House to exercise...
Collection The Working White House

For more than two centuries, the White House has been the home of American presidents. A powerful symbol of the...
Collection Eleanor Roosevelt's "My Day"

The White House Historical Association and the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project present this collaboration in an effort to open a...
Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'

First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
Collection Women and the White House

While there has yet to be a female president, women have played an integral role in shaping the White House...
U.S. Presidential Visits to Domestic Mosques

June 28, 1957: President Dwight D. Eisenhower - Islamic Center of Washington President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Remarks at Ceremonies Opening the Islamic...
The White House, Lafayette Square and African Americans

To imagine what it was like here when the White House was being constructed in the 1790s, erase everything else...
African Americans in Lafayette Square, 1795-1965

The phrase "The Half Had Not Been Told Me" is taken from a Biblical reference Frederick Douglass used to describe...
St. John's Church

Every president since James Madison has attended services at St. John's Church. This distinctive yellow church was the second building...
Tayloe House

Five hundred and forty-seven dollars and fifty cents. According to the records of the District of Columbia that is the...
Daniel Webster's House

Before the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Building was built during 1922-25, a simple three-and-a-half story brick home stood in...
712 Jackson Place

Many people know the sensational story of Congressman Daniel Sickles who shot his wife's lover in broad daylight in 1859 on...