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Lucy Diggs Slowe and Mary Burrill and the fight to stay in their Brookland home

  • by Robert Malesky
  • Posted on April 15, 2015October 9, 2025

Two extraordinary women of color lived at 1256 Kearny Street during the 1920s and 30s. This is their story.

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