Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C.

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Blacks (continued) 43; employment, 30; enfranchisement, 49-j3, jy; and highways, 165,167-69; opposition to territorial government, 59; political activism, 56-58; political patronage , j6; population, 27-28, 42,154, 206; and redevelopment, 147-50,160-65, 174,183;schools, 33,35-38,53; suburbanization , 206; voting rights, 34, 42,46, 50, 52-55, See also Contrabands Blanton, Thomas,125 Uoard of Health: abolished, 111;instituted, 14;reorganized, 23-24 Board of Public Works: accomplishnlents, 67-68; and congressional hearings, 6364 ;precedent for Senate Park Commission plan, 97; program for physical improvements , 61 Bolling airfield, 178,179 Borland, William Patterson, 121 Bossism, 46, 68, 70 Boston: abolitionism, 31;black schools, 36; park system, 92 Bowen, Anthony, 58 Bowen, Sayles:background, 53-54; disassociates himself from high school for black women, 36; opposition to territorial government, j9,64; and public works, 57-58; as Radical mayor of M'ashington, 54-55; support for integrated public schools, 56 Boyd, Julian, 9 Bradford, Augustus, 40 Bradley, Mrs. F, hf., 91 Braxton, Charles, 187 Brightwood, 76,79, 82; citizens' association, 81 British attack on capital, 12 Brookland, 74,76 Brookline, Mass., 99 Brooks, John H., 67 Brown, Glenn, 96,124; argument for coordinating public buildings and parks, 98; comments on L'Enfant plan, 97; and Senate Park Commission, 101-2,105 Broyhill, Joel,180-81 Build Black Incorporated, 180,182 Bureau of the Budget, 139 Burial grounds, 24 Burnham, Daniel, 96, 208; and Lincoln Memorial , 106-7; and the mall, 104-5; as member of Senate Park Commission, 98loo ; named to Commission of Fine Arts, 107;and railroads, 99; and residential design , 123 Burton, Harold,147 Calhoun, John,17 Cameron, Simon, 71 Canal investigation, 62-63 Cannon, Joseph:and Lincoln Memorial, 106;and railroad depot location, 85; and Senate Park Commission plan, 102-3,107 Capital, location of, 11;removal from Washington , 1 ~ 5 7 , 64 Capital punishment, referendum on, xi, 204 Capitol, location of, 6; role of, in L'Enfant plan, 7; surrounding area, 109 Capitol Hill, 39,76; citizens' association, 175 Capper, Arthur, 139,147 Capper-Crampton Act, 128 Capper-Norton Alley Dwelling Bill,139 Cardozo, 180,182,183 Carroll, Daniel, of Duddington, 11 Cassatt, A. J., 92-93> 99 Catholic Archdiocese of LIITashington, 178,182 Centennial Avenue, 91-93 Centennial celebration of capital location, 89-9L96 Center Market, 57, 84 Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company,1819 ;conlpetition with Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 19-20,26; and Alexander Shepherd , 71 Chevy Chase, Md., 76 Chicago: Civic Federation, 112;and parks, 125;plan of igog,~lo, 124,127;and redevelopment ,149 Chipman, Norton, elected nonvotitig delegate , 61 Cincinnsti: master plan of1948,1j3; as possible national capital, 12 Citizens Reform Association, 59 Citizens' associations, 81-82; and redevelopment , 147 City Beautiful Movement, 46,88,gg-loo, 105,116,118,123-24,126,129 Civic associations, 142,149 Civil rights bills, j6, 61 Civil service, 75,77 Civil IIl'ar, 26, 46, go Clark, Reuben, 188 Clay Henry, 34 Cleveland, plan of 1903,IIO Cleveland Park, 76,158 Clinton, Bill, 204, 209,210 Cobb, Henry Ives, 91 Cohen, Jeffrey,203 Coldren, Fred, 12j Coleman, Milton, 193,199 Columbia Heights, 77, 83 Comrnission of Fine Arts, 89,107-8; and design of public buildings, 124,127 Commissioners, interim board of (1874-78), 70 Commissioners of the District of Columbia (1878-1967)) 179;and highways,167;and housing conditions, 114,136;and park plans, 97-98; and redevelopment,176;and regulation of subdivisions, 78-79; replaced by city council,179;and river improvements , 73; and steam railroads, 84-86,94 Committee of loo on the Federal City 124126 ,162 Community Reconstruction and Development Corporation, 182 Community Rehabilitation Under Security and Trust (CRUST),177,178 Comprehensive planning, 60,88-90,118-19, 125,128 Compromise of 1850,34 Congress: and alleys,112,122,146;and concessionsto railroads, 84;and District finances , 20-21,63-65, 204,210;and federal payment, 65-66; and franchise for blacks, 52-53; half-and-half principle, 79,102;and highways,167-69; and home rule, 190-91; and housing conditions,118;investment in Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,l8,zi-22; joint committee on metropolitan U'ashington problems, 1j9;power of exclusive jurisdiction, xi, xiii, 37,43, 66,189,207; and slavery,31-33; and steam railroads, 84-86; and street railways,78; and territorial government , 60-6~64 Connecticut, rejection of franchise for blacks, jo Contrabands, 39-42 Cook...