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6 Eleanor Munro, [[underline]] Originals : American Women Artists [[/underline]] (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1979) 191. 7 Interview with John Maurice Thomas, 1530 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 3 June 1997. 8 Munro, 192. 9 See Thomas Gibson, "The Anti-Negro Riots in Atlanta," [[underline]] Harper's Weekly, [[/underline]] v. 50 (1906), 1457-1459, and Thomas Crowe, "Racial Massacre in Atlanta, September 22, 1906( [[underline]] The Journal of Negro History, [[/underline]] v. 54, no 2, (April, 1909) 150-173. 10 Crowe, 166. 11 Interview with John Maurice Thomas, 1530 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 3 June 1997. 12 Crowe, 167. 13 Interview with John Maurice Thomas, 1530 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 3 June 1997. 14 Interview with John Maurice Thomas, 1530 15th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 3 June 1997. 15 James M. Goode, [[underline]] Capital Losses, a Cultural History of Washington's Destroyed Buildings [[/underline]] (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1979) 413. During the late nineteenth century, all southern railroad traffic used the Baltimore and Potomac railroad station, the site now occupied by the National Gallery of Art. 16 William Kiplinger, [[underline]] Washington Is Like This [[/underline]] (New York: Harper & Brother, 1942) 147. 17. Goode, 209. Two attempts before the Civil War were made to establish a Congregational Church in Washington. Both failed because the nation's capital was basically a Southern city hostile to a church so closely connected then to Northern abolitionists. One of the most prominent leaders in establishing the new church was General Oliver O. Howard, head of the Freedmen's Bureau and founder of Howard University. Owing to his influence, a 29