Hispanic Festival at Kalorama Park

DC’s diverse Latino community came together at the grassroots level, making its cultural presence felt at public festivals, concerts, and street theater performances. In the 1980s, the Latino population would grow substantially with the arrival of new residents fleeing Central America’s civil wars. Gentrification would also begin to move working class Latinos out of the Adams Morgan neighborhood (the first hub of the Latino community) and in many cases, directly to the suburbs.