Abstract In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...

Abstract In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...

Abstract In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...

Abstract In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...

Abstract In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...

Abstract In the first part of his interview, Jim Vitarello talks about his background, his birth in Italy and Catholic upbringing in New York, and how he came to live in Adams Morgan in 1975. He reflects on how Adams Morgan was impacted by the King riots and on the character of the neighborhood in the 1970s. He discusses his involvement in housing policy, including conducting several redlining studies that showed how banks were not lending to low-income families in predominantly Black neighborhoods...

Abstract In the second part of his interview, Jim Vitarello talks further about his Catholic faith and how it has impacted his lifestyle and work. Vitarello discusses key figures in D.C. history, including Walter Fauntroy and his experience working for Congressman Silvio Conte during law school and at HUD as a young lawyer. Vitarello speaks in detail about credit availability in the disinvested neighborhood of Adams Morgan, the role of banks and Savings and Loans and his work towards more equitable...

Abstract In the first part of his interview, Jim Vitarello talks about his background, his birth in Italy and Catholic upbringing in New York, and how he came to live in Adams Morgan in 1975. He reflects on how Adams Morgan was impacted by the King riots and on the character of the neighborhood in the 1970s. He discusses his involvement in housing policy, including conducting several redlining studies that showed how banks were not lending to low-income families in predominantly Black neighborhoods...

Abstract In the first part of his interview, Jim Vitarello talks about his background, his birth in Italy and Catholic upbringing in New York, and how he came to live in Adams Morgan in 1975. He reflects on how Adams Morgan was impacted by the King riots and on the character of the neighborhood in the 1970s. He discusses his involvement in housing policy, including conducting several redlining studies that showed how banks were not lending to low-income families in predominantly Black neighborhoods...

Abstract In the first part of his interview, Jim Vitarello talks about his background, his birth in Italy and Catholic upbringing in New York, and how he came to live in Adams Morgan in 1975. He reflects on how Adams Morgan was impacted by the King riots and on the character of the neighborhood in the 1970s. He discusses his involvement in housing policy, including conducting several redlining studies that showed how banks were not lending to low-income families in predominantly Black neighborhoods...