At the intersection of 7th and T Street NW currently stands a school, a bank, a CVS and a Chinese restaurant. In the summer of 1919, dubbed the "Red Summer" by civil right activist James Wheldon Johnson, that intersection was one of the flashpoints where DC's black community took a stand against an angry mob who were on a rampage after an alleged assault on a white woman by two black men. The event was the catalyst for violence after months of tension following the end of WWI