We start off at the African American Civil War Memorial - and after talking about the role of African Americans in the Civil War and the impact of that war on the population of Washington, DC. (1:18)

We Play Make Yourself Comfortable performed by Sarah Vaughn, from Jazz-on-line.com. (9:37)

We visit the Thurgood Marshall Center for Service and Heritage, which was also the historic 12th Street YMCA. We visit a corner that is dominated by churches. (12:15)

We visit 13th and T streets, the location of the Whitelaw hotel, deep in the center of Duke Ellington's neighborhood. (16:43)

We play Hop Head, performed by Duke Ellington's Washingtonians, from Jazz-on-line.com. (19:56)

We visit fourteenth street, the border between the black Shaw community and the surrounding white neighborhoods, and an area where segregation issues were particularly evident. (22:55)

We play Georgia on My Mind, performed by Billie Holiday, from Jazz-on-line.com. (28:34)

At New Hampshire and U Street we visit the Beaux Arts Buildings and the legacy of Mary Foote Henderson. (31:49)

We visit Meridien Hill Park, then head back to the heart of the U Street Corridor. (35:12)

We play Minnie the Moocher, performed by Cab Calloway. The recording comes to us from from Jazz-on-line.com. (22:19)

We stop by the U Street Cardozo metro station and go down into the 12th and U Street Entrance to see the Community Rhythms Mural, also appreciating the Duke Ellington Mural outside on the True Reformers Building. We end our podcast out front of Bohemian Caverns, a famous Jazz Club. (20:44)

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Our Opening Theme Music is Garden Walk by Kim Evans, and our closing theme this week is Chicago Breakdown by Louis Armstrong's Hot 7. Logo design is by Kathleen Hamm at Hamm Multimedia.

Check our our U Street/Shaw Photo Album, to see some of the sights we talk about today.