A young resident of Clifton Terrace protests conditions as Mayor Walter Washington exits the building, January 1968.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Clifton Terrace and Tenant Organizing
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Clifton Terrace and Tenant Organizing
Civil Rights Tour: Housing - Clifton Terrace and Tenant Organizing
During the 1960s, the once-elegant apartment complex originally known as Wardman Courts, but renamed Clifton Terrace in 1921, had fallen into severe disrepair. As tenants were forced to endure a lack of heat, crumbling ceilings, peeling paint, leaky…