Resources for Teachers

American Anthropologist. Vol.1 "Games of Washington Children." July 1888. Pages 243-284.

Bicknell, Grace Vawter. The Inhabited Alleys of Washington, D.C. Committee on Housing, Woman's Welfare Department, 1912

Borchert, James. Alley Life in Washington: Family, Community, Religion, and Folklife in the City, 1850-1970. Chicago, IL and London, England: University of Illinois Press, 1980

Easter, Opal V. Nannie Helen Burroughs. Garland Publishing, Inc., New York & London, 1995

Frankel, Godfrey. In the Alleys, Kids in the Shadow of The Capital. Washington, D.C. and London, England: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1995

Green, Constance McLaughlin. The Secret City; A History of Race Relations in the Nation's Capitol. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1967. xv, 389 p. illus., ports. 23 cm.

Ibid. Washington. Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 1962-63. 2 v. illus. 25 cm.

House of Representatives, Sixty-Third Congress, Second Session on H.R. 13219. Hearing Before the Committee on the District of Columbia. Certain Alleys in the District of Columbia. Government Printing Office, 1914

Johnston, Allan. Surviving Freedom, The Black Community of Washington, D.C. 1860-1880. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc, 1993

Jones, Dr. Thomas Jesse. Directory of the Inhabited Alleys of Washington D.C. Printed Through the Generosity of Mrs. Medill McCormick, Mrs. William Belden Noble and Mrs. John Van Schaick, Jr., 1912

The Junior League of The City of Washington. The City of Washington. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1997

Library of Congress. The Learning Page <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/>.

Library of Congress. Discovering Hidden Washington Home Page <http://www.loc.gov/kidslc/>.

Sluby, Paul E. Jr. Rosemont Cemetery. Washington, D.C.: Columbian Harmony Society, 1993

Subcommittee of the Committee on the District of Columbia, United States Senate, Sixty-Third Congress, Second Session on Senate Bills 1624, 2376, 2397, 2580, 4529, and 4672. Inhabited Alleys in the District of Columbia and Housing of Unskilled Workingmen. Government Print Office, 1914.

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