This building's historic landmark designation recognizes Youth Pride, Inc., which was located here from 1968 to 1981. Pride, Inc. was an important organization within the Black Power Movement and was funded through the War on Poverty, which had started under President Lyndon B. Johnson in the 1960s. Pride adhered to the Black Power Movement's tenet of self-determination and was an important institution at a time of disinvestment, unemployment, and police brutality in the District.As the first...
