The Most Important City: How the Federal Government Segregated Its Workforce

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On June 25, 2020, professor Eric S. Yellin, author of Racism in the Nation’s Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson’s America (2013) and Anacostia Community Museum’s Senior Curator Samir Meghelli, curator of "A Right to the City," explored the history of segregation of the federal government and how it has reverberated through the decades to influence life here in DC and around the nation.

“The Mirror Image: Black Washington in World War II-Era Federal Photography,” by Barbara Orbach and Nicholas Natanson, Washington History, 4-1 (1992).

“‘Shelling the Citadel of Race Prejudice’: William Calvin Chase and the Washington ‘Bee,’ 1882-1921,” by Hal S. Chase (Records of the Columbia Historical Society) 49 1973-74.

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ABOUT THE PRESENTERS

Eric S. Yellin is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at the University of Richmond. He is the author of Racism in the Nation’s Service: Government Workers and the Color Line in Woodrow Wilson's America (UNC Press 2013) and the Senior Curatorial Consultant at the new Capital Jewish Museum in Washington. His public history writing has been featured in the Washington Post, USA Today, The Conversation, and elsewhere.

Samir Meghelli is the Senior Curator at the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in History from Columbia University. He has authored, co-authored, and co-edited several works. His writings have also appeared in the New York Times, Philadelphia Tribune, and Washington Informer. Most recently, he curated A Right to the City, an exhibition that explores the history and contemporary dynamics of neighborhood change and community activism in Washington, DC.

Funding for this program was provided from HumanitiesDC and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of NEH.