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District of Columbia  

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  • Federal district that includes the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., with which African Americans have had a long and often stormy association. As a southern city, Washington, D.C., was home to slavery and the slave trade before the Civil War and Jim Crow segre-gation afterwards. [Source: Encyclopedia of African American Society; District of Columbia]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-RRGTKG4Z-B

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