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D.C. Council member Anita Bonds (right), shown here with Lisa Fager, executive director of the Black Georgetown Foundation, introduced a D.C. Council resolution honoring Mount Zion-Female Union Band Society Cemetery in early February. (Shevry Lassiter/The Washington Informer)
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Notes and Footnotes to a Life in Georgetown

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Zionette Circle, arm of the Women's Society, social club at Mount Zion United Methodist Church, in the 1940s (Courtesy of Mount Zion United Methodist Church Archives)
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To Recover, Recognize & Commemorate

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Hidden in Plain View: The Overlooked History of Black Georgetown

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