The first DC Statehood Party building at 11th & K Streets NW
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Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
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Women in History DowntownDC Callbox Tour: Josephine Butler
Josephine Butler was born in 1920 to parents who were sharecroppers on a tobacco farm in the Brandywine area of Prince George’s County, Maryland. At age 14 she moved to D.C., lied about her age, and got a job in a laundry. A natural activist and…