Photo Picketing the White House - Photo 2
A crowd attempting to break up the women's suffrage parade on 9th Street in Washington, D.C. on March 3, 1913.
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Photo A photograph of Civil Rights Leaders meeting with President Kennedy in the Oval Office, 1963.
President Kennedy meets with the leaders of the March On Washington on August 28, 1963 in the Oval Office. L-R: Secretary of...
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Photo National Photo Company: Political Prisoner Protesters
Wives and children of political prisoners came to Washington to appeal to the president for the release of their husbands...
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Photo White House garden party for wounded veterans at the White House, 1929
White House garden party for wounded veterans at the White House, 1929.
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Photo Suffrage Protester Outside the White House
Suffragist Alison Turnbull Hopkins holds a protest banner at the northwest gate of the White House, c. 1917.
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Dolley Madison's House
Did you know that after her husband's death, First Lady Dolley Madison was so poor that she had to accept...
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President's Park: A History of Protest at the White House
President’s Park is approximately 80 acres of urban landscape surrounding the White House. A fence encloses the house, providing 18 acres of...
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Rodgers House and Belasco Theater
The Rodgers HouseThe Rodgers House, formerly at 717 Madison Place, was constructed in 1831 by Commodore John Rodgers, a high-ranking naval officer....
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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...
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Lincoln in His Shop
In the summer of 1864, Kentuckian John Bullock called upon President Abraham Lincoln at the White House to make a personal...
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An Activist First Lady in Traditional Washington
The following excerpt is from Nancy Beck Young’s Lou Hoover: Activist First Lady, University of Kansas Press, 2004. The White Ho...
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Freedman's Savings & Trust Co.
Three million dollars belonging to 61,000 African Americans. That's how much accumulated wealth vanished when the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company...
