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Dupont

Original tobacco slave quarters were located here starting in the 1770s when the British tall ships moved slave and tobacco from Africa and England to America. From 1840 - 1970, this area was majority Black (today Foggy Bottom is 9.6% and Dupont Circle is 6%). The community boasts of the homes of Dr. Charles Drew, Duke Ellington, Dr. Rayford Logan, Mrs. Rosa Parks' home-away-from-home as well as an underground railroad site and more.

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Mrs. Rosa Parks

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Mrs. Rosa Parks, the mother of the Civil and Women’s Rights movements home-away-from home from 1994-2004 was in DC, at O Museum in the Mansion.
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Dr. Charles Drew

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Dr. Charles Drew was a pioneering figure in blood banking and transfusion medicine, developing innovative methods for storing blood plasma, leading to the establishment of large-scale blood banks. Despite his groundbreaking work, Drew resigned from the American Red Cross after they insisted on segregating blood donations by race, a policy he vehemently opposed.
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