Raphael Urciolo owned ten properties along U Street NW, including this building at 14th and U (now the site of the Reeves Center) that he rented to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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Raphael Urciolo owned ten properties along U Street NW, including this building at 14th and U (now the site of the Reeves Center) that he rented to the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
This file appears in: Civil Rights Tour: Raphael G. Urciolo Residence

Raphael Urciolo, who gave this testimony in Urciolo v. Hodge (U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, 1945) contributed to one of DC’s and the nation’s most significant civil rights victories of the 20th century: the Supreme Court’s 1948…