Shaw thing

摘要

WHEN LINCOLN TEMPLE, a church in the Shaw neighbourhood of Washington, dc, closed this year, it signalled the end of an important chapter in African-American history. Founded in 1869 by a group that included many newly freed slaves, it became a hub of the civil-rights movement. In the 1950s one of its earliest members, Mary Church Terrell, led successful sit-in protests against Washington's segregated restaurants. In the next decade the church was used as a marshalling ground for marchers. It attracted famous preachers. Roberta Flack sang there. More than a thousand people once attended Lincoln Temple's Sunday services.