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Early Latino community festival
Museum Resource Center. National Park Service. Summer in the Parks Collection. Photographer unknown.1969/1969
Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Latino
Washington, DC, United States
The National Park Service began presenting summer concerts and other free programs in DC’s public parks in the years following the devastating riots that shook the city after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s assassination. DC’s Latino community numbered under 20,000 residents; its residential and commercial hubs were the neighborhoods of Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and Columbia Heights.
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- Title: Early Latino community festival
- Creator: Museum Resource Center. National Park Service. Summer in the Parks Collection. Photographer unknown.
- Date Created: 1969/1969
- Location: Fort Reno Park, Washington, DC
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