Notable Residents of Anacostia

People who lived here, were shaped here, or shaped this place. Each profile is sourced. Know someone we should add? Tell us.

Abolitionist, orator, statesman

First African American employee of the Smithsonian; Hillsdale civic leader

Civil War soldier, Freedmen's Bureau clerk, Hillsdale pioneer

Pearl escape survivor, abolitionist, founding Hillsdale resident

One of the first African American women to earn a Ph.D.

Longtime superintendent of D.C.'s Black public schools

Founding director of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Civil rights organizer and four-term Mayor of Washington, D.C.

Modernist poet confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital

Executive Director of the National Capital Housing Authority