Did You Really Know? Back When..Anacostia Was...

The Anacostia Neighborhood Museum also known as the "Smithsonian Institution" was established in 1967. It was built out of the Old Carver movie theater. Secretary S. Dillon Ripley idea was to build an experimental store front museum. The Carver Theater was taken over by the Smithsonian Institution in hope to convert the theater into a museum with help of local citizens.

The Anacostia Musuem was designed and opened in September of 1967 as a resolvement of the incread animosity and frustration in blacks. The assasinations of historic civil rights leaders, Malcom X, and historic black communities, The Watts, and Due to Riots such as the Newark and Detroit Riots also played a distinct role in the opening of the museum. The museum is the respitory of artifacts, document, and the experiences of residents of Anacostia. It is in fact a landmark and not only is located in the Anacostia but it also is a museum which preserves the African American experience in Washington, DC as well as across the nation.

Washington Highlands

Washington Highlands is a large residential area located in SE (Ward 8). It

is bounded on three sides by Oxon Run Park and on the fourh side by Southern

Avenue. It is known to be the poorest and least developed section of Washington. It

is known to have been composed of low-income and public housing apartment

complexes, including the Highland Dwelling public housing complex. Being that it is

the poorest residential area, it is also among the most violent neighborhoods in DC.

Roughly about one third of the city’s 181 homicides in 2007 occurred there.

The neighborhood captured media attention in January 2008, when city

officials founded that a resident by the name Banita Jacks had been living for months

in her house along with the bodies of her four murdered children in a bad state of

decomposition. With that said, there is nothing nice to say about this

neighborhood and it is a residence where people of low –income live and is

perhaps owned by the government. The Washington Highlands Community can be

metro accessible, the W2 bus.