CSPAN3 March 17, 2012
role even after emancipation, during reconstruction and the years that followed. so what i've talked about so far is sort of that foundation of the african-american community that continues through the 19th century. after 1860, washington's african-american population continues to increase in size dramatically. by 1870, there are more than 43,000 african-american residents of the city, one-third of the total population. by 1890, this number had grown to 75,000, and they were still one-third of the population. as the city grew, they grew. and eventually by 1900, washington, d.c., had ...