Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic
History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The Fight Back organization tables at 18th & Columbia while the housing march passes by. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The housing march began on Mintwood Place in Adams Morgan. When it reached the corner of 18th and Columbia, Council member Dave Clarke is seen marching while walking his bicycle. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The housing march passes by construction of Perpetual Bank at the crossroads of Adams Morgan. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The housing march passes by the Safeway in the 1700 block of Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Small children were always included in protests and demonstrations. The only stroller available was a foldable lightweight aluminum one you could carry on a bus. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The Powerful Promise But Don’t Deliver was a sign carried in several housing demonstrations in the neighborhood. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The iconic WE ARE NOT MOVING OUT sign is carried on 16th Street during the housing march to the landlord’s home on 15th Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The housing march walks up Euclid Street, one block away from the landlord’s house where they were going to demonstrate. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
When the community heard that the public square at 18th & Columbia was being sold to BP to have a gas station, there was a united front from everyone not to have a gas station. We negotiated and got the bank, along with an agreement for them to stop
Children hang out on the front steps of their family’s row house on Euclid Street NW. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Marisa Peres stands in front of a banner in front of the Kenesaw Apartment Building at 16th & Irving & Mt Pleasant Streets. The story of the struggles of the people to own this building could fill a book. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
At the second Adams Morgan Day, there were booths dedicated to tenants' organizations and the people's struggles to own their own homes. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
When Council was taking about the issue of rent control, tenant organizations encouraged their members to attend the hearings. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
When the Washington Hilton tried to buy property adjacent to the hotel, the neighbors rose up and had a demonstration in the block around the Hilton and in the front. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Neighbors of the Washington Hilton were determined to not let it expand into our neighborhood and threaten our school.(c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Frank Smith, Dave Clarke and David Barrows march together to stop the Washington Hilton from taking away a piece of our neighborhood. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The Imperial Tenants Association struggled to gain control of their building. They held demonstrations on the sidewalk outside the building on Columbia Road near 18th Street. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
At a demonstration outside the Imperial apartment building on Columbia Road, a sign defiant about gentrification and a profile distant image of Council member Hilda Mason of the DC Statehood Green Party. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Neighborhood people march and protest in front of the Imperial Apartment Building on Columbia Road, calling for the landlord to sell the building to the tenants. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The tenants on Mintwood Place were the most active and had actions and demonstrations. This may have been a block party. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Dravillas was the real estate agent who collected money from the tenants of the Imperial, a building of low income mainly Spanish speaking tenants. The sign translates, Why do dogs live better than people? (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Adams Morgan residents protest in front of the office of Dravillas Realty on Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Casilda Luna addresses the people gathered in front of the Dravillas Realty building to talk about the part Dravillas was playing to intimidate the tenants in the Imperial. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Out My Window: Nancy Shia's 40-year Photographic
History of 18th Street and Columbia Road. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
A few years after the people of the Kenesaw began the struggle to own their building, they were still carrying on the struggle to keep owning it. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Their message stays the same, The powerful promise but don’t deliver. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The Anthony Bowen Y is boarded up. The intention of the YMCA was to sell the building and close the Y. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
When the community heard about the Y closing, they started to organize so that we would not lose a YMCA in the neighborhood. And to organize to turn the building into something worthy of its historical importance in the African American community wh
Even after it closed, a couple of young boys are hanging around outside the building, perhaps hoping for a miraculous reopening. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
Even after the windows have been boarded up, the front stairs remain open and the columns exposed. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
The building is located on 12th Street NW between S and T Streets. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
For many years the Bowen Y was the only place African American soldiers could stay in DC when they needed a room or a place for the night. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
After the tenants fought the good fight in the Beacon apartment building located between Calvert Street and Adams Mill Road, after they all moved out, some leaving their furniture and other personal items because they had to move out quickly, what wa
An eviction on Ontario Road NW, with Columbia Road in the background. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
An eviction on Ontario Road, with Lanier Place in the background. (c) Nancy Shia, 2020
A demonstration against gentrification on Willard Street, NW, in what was then Adams Morgan, now Dupont Circle. The demonstration was organized by RAP, Incorporated. RAP, or Regional Addiction Program, was an organization started by Ron Brown in Ad
