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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.

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglass

1818–1895

Abolitionist, orator, statesman

Solomon G. Brown

Solomon G. Brown

1829–1906

First African American employee of the Smithsonian; Hillsdale civic leader

Charles Remond Douglass

1844–1920

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

Emily Edmonson

Emily Edmonson

1835–1895

Pearl escape survivor, abolitionist, founding Hillsdale resident

Georgiana Simpson

Georgiana Simpson

1865–1944

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

Garnet C. Wilkinson

1879–1969

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

John Kinard

1936–1989

Founding director of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum

Marion Barry

1936–2014

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

Ezra Pound

1885–1972

Modernist poet confined at St. Elizabeths Hospital

James G. Banks

1920–2005

Executive Director of the National Capital Housing Authority

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