
Washington Senators: Jim Lemon, Bob Allison, Harmon Killebrew, Roy Sievers. 1959 (Photo credit: Phil Wood)

African American protesters at Glen Echo Park (Photo credit: Hyman Bookbinder)

Aerial view of DC stadium construction (Photo credit: Courtesy of the Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library)

Mobile Lounge in front of construction of tower at Dulles Airport (Photo credit: Metropolitan Washington Airport Authority)

John & Jacqueline Kennedy (Photo credit: Cecil Stoughton, White House, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston)

President and Mrs. Kennedy at National Theatre, 25 September 1962 (Photo credit: Abbie Rowe, National Park Service, in the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.)

Rev. Walter Fauntroy (Photo credit: Rebecca Kingsley)

Civil rights protestors (Photo credit: Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress)

Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C. at the Lincoln Memorial. The photograph shows two men in the foreground reading a newspaper with the headline: "They're Pouring In From All Over." (Photo credit: Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress)

Crowds on the Mall in Washington, D.C., during the March on Washington, August 28,1963 (Photo credit: Prints & Photographs Division, Library of Congress)

Local DJ Carroll James with the Beatles in Washington. (Photo credit: George McCloskey)

Capital Beltway opening, August 1964 (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

A car drives onto the exit to the Capital Beltway towards I-495 Bethesda (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

Opening of Rally for DC Home Rule (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

Marion Barry at Free DC rally - 8/26/66 (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

Woodward and Lothrop department store (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

Local DJ Petey Greene, Anti-Poverty Post - March 4, 1967 (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

A two-time Emmy Award-winner, Ralph (Petey) Greene overcame drug addiction and a prison sentence for armed robbery to become one of Washington, D.C.'s most prominent media personalities. LTR: Petey; David Foote; Ronald Smith; Robert Armstead; Ronald Sinclair; and David Wellington. March 19, 1967 (Photo credit: © Bettmann/CORBIS)

Rufus (Catfish) Mayfield (pointing) and other Youth Pride Inc. members. (Photo credit: Associated Press)

Julius Hobson at car with megaphones (Aug. 19, 1967). (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

Mayor Walter E. Washington with President Lyndon B. Johnson, 9/6/1967 (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

Vietnam protestors (Photo credit: LBJ Library photo by Frank Wolfe)

Women exit the Arena Stage theater. (Photo credit: Arena Stage historical documents, Collection #C0017, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University.)

1968 riots (Photo credit: Courtesy of the Washingtoniana Division, DC Public Library)

DC riots, 1968 (Photo credit: Star Collection, DC Public Library; © Washington Post)

James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander in "The Great White Hope" (Photo credit: Arena Stage Press Office)