Washington, D.C. Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Civil rights and home rule era === {{See also|1968 Washington, D.C., riots|District of Columbia home rule}} [[File:IhaveadreamMarines.jpg|thumb|The [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] at the [[Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool]] on August 28, 1963]] The [[Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution]] was ratified in 1961, granting the district three votes in the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] for the election of president and vice president, but still not affording the city's residents representation in Congress.<ref>{{cite web |title=Twenty-third Amendment |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt23_user.html |work=CRS Annotated Constitution |publisher=Legal Information Institute (Cornell University Law School) |access-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-date=August 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830173738/http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt23_user.html |url-status=live }}</ref> After the [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.]] on April 4, 1968, [[1968 Washington, D.C., riots|riots broke out in the city]], primarily in the U Street, 14th Street, 7th Street, and H Street corridors, which were predominantly black residential and commercial areas. The riots raged for three days until more than 13,600 federal troops and [[Army National Guard|Washington, D.C., Army National Guardsmen]] stopped the violence. Many stores and other buildings were burned, and rebuilding from the riots was not completed until the late 1990s.<ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Schwartzman |author2=Robert E. Pierre |title=From Ruins To Rebirth |date=April 6, 2008 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/05/AR2008040501607.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=June 6, 2008 |archive-date=May 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504041451/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/05/AR2008040501607.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1973, Congress enacted the [[District of Columbia Home Rule Act]] providing for an elected mayor and 13-member council for the district.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abfa.com/ogc/hract.htm |title=District of Columbia Home Rule Act |access-date=May 27, 2008 |date=February 1999 |publisher=Government of the District of Columbia |archive-date=August 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826223320/http://www.abfa.com/ogc/hract.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1975, [[Walter Washington]] became the district's first elected and first black mayor.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mathews |first=Jay |title=City's 1st Mayoral Race, as Innocent as Young Love |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/mayor101199.htm |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 11, 1999 |page=A1 |access-date=November 29, 2015 |archive-date=October 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014050258/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/mayor101199.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> Since the 1980s, the [[District of Columbia statehood movement|D.C. statehood movement]] has grown in prominence. In 2016, a [[2016 Washington, D.C., statehood referendum|referendum on D.C. statehood]] resulted in an 85% support among Washington, D.C., voters for it to become the nation's [[51st state]]. In March 2017, the city's congressional delegate [[Eleanor Holmes Norton]] introduced a bill for statehood. Reintroduced in 2019 and 2021 as the [[Washington, D.C., Admission Act]], the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. House of Representatives]] passed it in April 2021. After not progressing in the Senate, the statehood bill was introduced again in January 2023.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/24/dc-statehood-senate-bill/ |title= D.C. leaders herald Senate statehood bill despite steep odds |newspaper= The Washington Post |first= Meagan |last= Flynn |date= January 24, 2023 |access-date= July 18, 2023 |archive-date= March 29, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20230329171144/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/01/24/dc-statehood-senate-bill/ |url-status= live }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page