Anacostia
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Anacostia is a historic neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. in the United States. Its downtown is located at the intersection of Marion Barry Avenue SE and Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE. Orig
An old Anacostia cottage
The historic neon "Anacostia" sign at 1115 Good Hope Road SE. The sign is the traditional gateway to Historic Old Anacostia.
Houses on W Street, SE in Anacostia.
Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, SE in Anacostia.
Bonus Army
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The Bonus Army, a group of 43,000 demonstrators—17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups—gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash
Anacostia
…War I veterans from all across the country marched on Washington to demand immediate payment of a bonus promised to them. The event became known as the Bonus Army Conflict. Most of the Bonus Army camped on Anacostia Flats, a swampy, muddy area along the Anacostia River later reclaimed as Anacostia Park/Fairlawn…
Members of the Bonus Army camped out on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol building
Cinderella stamp (US, 1932) a privately published sticker (not a postage stamp) supporting the Bonus Army
The B.E.F. camp in the Anacostia section of Washington, D.C.
Walter W. Waters, Commander of the Bonus Expeditionary Force