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Washington D.C. John Whitelaw Lewis
How John Whitelaw Lewis built the first luxury hotel for African Americans in 1919
He defied the racial segregation that was prevalent in the United States during the mid-twentieth century. Aware of the odds that were against him, John Whitelaw Lewis’s first hurdle as a son of an enslaved African was to learn how to read and write at a time when such opportunities were non-existent to black children….
