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I know you want to leave me but I refuse
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just to let the fun go if I have to beg
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and plead for the stay on me I don't
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mind but I don't want to leave here I'm
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so proud to bake sweet farms please
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don't let us go don't you know my name
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is Shawn Brown but they called me me
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bond that's representing my grandmother
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they live here and did a whole lot for
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the farms if I turn around I could point
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to you
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I lived it even though I did 12:17 they
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demolished my home for the new
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rebuilding of Berry Farms it makes me
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feel a little sad because it's like my
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history been taken away from me
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growing up in the Fonz was really really
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really wonderful it was it was fun see I
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was a I was a little skittish cat I used
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to run around if you didn't catch me you
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in trouble my mother came in 1962 when
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we got down here everybody welcome to
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Terra with open arms you can leave your
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doors open today I moved out well I look
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back at it as I'm leaving home but I
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wasn't gonna leave home because I know
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I'm just coming back
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I'm always come back looking at it right
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now I'm trying to picture is gonna look
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and I'm hoping some people that moved
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out get a chance to come back
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we know the future by the past Berry
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Farm is one of DC's most historic black
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communities originally founded just
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after emancipation by the Freedmen's
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Bureau they not only built their houses
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from scratch here but they built the
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whole community they built churches they
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built schools this legacy of that
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community sort of carried on into the
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20th century with the development of the
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public housing the three parallel
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streets and the go through Berry Farm
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are remnants of the 1867 Freedmen's
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Bureau communities and the names of
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abolitionists these streets are named
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for
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by 1950 there was no junior-high-school
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east of the Anacostia River that
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admitted black students the schools were
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all segregated at that time when a brand
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new Junior High School opened nearby for
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white students they showed up at the
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door and demanded to be admitted this
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was sort of the beginnings of a case
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called bowling V sharp that ultimately
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went to the Supreme Court as a companion
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case to brown v board of education
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resulted in the desegregation of schools
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within the district there is important
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that a DC case accompany brown v board
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of education because DC is not a state
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and therefore not necessarily subject to
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the Fourteenth Amendment
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Stevens Road is the area that is the
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subject of the landmark nomination
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because a lot of the plaintiffs in
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bowling D sharp
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lived along Stephens Road that includes
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Adrienne and Barbara Jennings so the
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Jennings sisters they lived right
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through this path here in the 1100 block
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of Stephens Road DC is known for the
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Washington Monument and you know
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Smithsonian Institution and the mall and
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the Congress and the White House and we
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should not be playing a role in the
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diminishment of the local history as
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just as significant as any of those
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federal places and those federal
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monuments this was the place for for
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slaves during the Civil War to come so I
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think that for the legacy of this
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particular area and selfies this should
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still be that particular place that
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people
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to come and live and it shouldn't be
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based upon your income declaring very
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farm had a historic landmark will ensure
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that our history is remembered that our
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stories are told and that we will see
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our reflections in this community for
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years to come despite the fact that so
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much of what has been familiar about DC
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has changed around us very farm is
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historic
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the only question before us is whether
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you historic preservation review board
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members will give it the landmark status
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and recognition that it deserves thank
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you
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