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A new anthology
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Richmond police arrest
nearly two dozen as weeks
of peaceful protest turn
violent over the weekend. B4OBITUARIES
Photographer Paul Fusco
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7-14 mphed on one hand, said Hilary Green, an associate
professor of history at the University of Alabama.
“We don’t want to talk about it because we as
Americans... we’re always forward thinking. We
never think enough about the past.”
The American tendency toward selective memo-
ry applies doubly so to slavery, Green said. “How do
you remember this violent period in history, the
owning of people? It does not fit our narrative that
we tell about ourselves.... We ratify the myth
rather than deal with the truth.”
After his father died in 1938, Dan Smith picked
up where Abram’s life left off, witnessing decades of
the nation’s racial history — the injustice of Jim
Crow, the grief and glory of the civil rights move-
ment, the elections of the first black president and
then Donald Trump, and the rise of the Black Lives
Matter movement. He watched the police killing of
George Floyd in Minneapolis caught on cellphone
video, horrified, and wonders where this new
unrest will lead.
All along, Smith created his own history — as a
SEE RETROPOLIS ON B8Petula
Dvorak
She is away. Her
column will resume
when she returns.BY DANA HEDGPETH
AND JULIE ZAUZMERAn order from D.C. Mayor
Muriel E. Bowser (D) went into
effect Monday that puts restric-
tions on anyone coming into
Washington from a state that’s
considered high risk due to its
coronavirus outbreak.
The order says those who
come to the District after “nones-
sential activities” in one of the
high-risk states are required to
self-quarantine for two weeks.
People whose travels outside
the District — or arrival in the
District — are for the purpose of
“essential travel” are required to
watch for symptoms of the novel
coronavirus for 14 days. If they
have symptoms, they’re expected
to self-quarantine and get medi-
cal attention.
Officials said travel to and
from Maryland and Virginia is
exempt from the order.
The 2 7 hot spot states on the
list are Arkansas, Arizona, Ala-
bama, California, Delaware,
SEE REGION ON B3D.C. travel
restrictions
in effect for
27 states
Bowser’s order exempts
Md., Va. despite rise in
positive test ratesBY OVETTA WIGGINSMaryland Attorney General
Brian E. Frosh (D) is seeking a
delay on evictions and debt col-
lection actions until Jan. 31,
providing additional time for the
General Assembly to enact emer-
gency legislation to help resi-
dents struggling during the coro-
navirus pandemic.
Frosh sent a letter, on behalf of
the Covid-19 Access to Justice
Task Force, to Court of Special
Appeals Chief Judge Mary Ellen
Barber and District Court Chief
Judge John P. Morrissey asking
them to extend a moratorium
that ended on July 25.
“If eviction and debt collection
proceedings are allowed to move
forward, many Maryland fami-
lies will be forced out of their
homes, with no place to go and
no income to obtain new hous-
ing,” Frosh said in a statement.
SEE EVICTIONS ON B3Frosh seeks
to extend
moratorium
on evictions
Many Maryland families
at risk of losing homes,
attorney general warnsBY TOM JACKMAN
AND CAROL D. LEONNIGAn Army National Guard offi-
cer who witnessed protesters be-
ing forcibly removed from Lafay-
ette Square last month is contra-
dicting claims by the attorney
general and the Trump adminis-
tration that they did not speed up
the clearing to make way for the
president’s photo opportunity
minutes later.
A new statement by Adam D.DeMarco, an Iraq veteran who
now serves as a major in the D.C.
National Guard, also casts doubt
on the claims by acting Park Police
chief Gregory Monahan that vio-
lence by protesters spurred Park
Police to clear the area at that time
with unusually aggressive tactics.DeMarco said that “demonstra-
tors w ere behaving peacefully”
and that tear gas was deployed in
an “excessive use of force.”
DeMarco backs up law enforce-
ment officials who told The Wash-
ington Post that they believed the
clearing operation would happenafter the 7 p.m. curfew that night,
but it was dramatically accelerat-
ed after Attorney General William
P. Barr and others appeared in the
park about 6 p.m. Monahan has
said the operation was conducted
so that a fence might be erected
around the park. DeMarco said
the fencing materials did not ar-
rive until 9 p.m. — hours after Barr
told the Park Police to expand the
perimeter — and the fence wasn’t
built until later that night.
DeMarco’s account of eventsalso reveals for the first time the
details of the visit that Gen. Mark
A. Milley, chairman of the Joint
Chiefs of Staff, made to Lafayette
Square just before the move on
protesters — and the warning he
gave his troops.
Milley, who arrived in the park
with Barr about 30 minutes before
the clearing, warned DeMarco to
keep officers from going over-
board. “General Milley told me to
ensure that National Guard per-
SEE PROTESTS ON B4Witness casts doubt on L afayette Square claims
GUARD OFFICER COUNTERS TRUMP OFFICIALS
Says protesters were peaceful, force was ‘excessive’
BY SYDNEY TRENTAt 88, A slave’s son
He’s heard his dad’s stories of the lynching tree,
witnessed history from Selma to Black Lives Matter PlazaBY LAUREN LUMPKINGeorge Washington University
will hold undergraduate courses
online for the fall semester with
limited exceptions, a reversal of
the school’s previous plans for a
hybrid term, leaders announced
Monday.
A national resurgence of the
novel coronavirus, along with
guidance from public health ex-
perts and unease among faculty
and students, have led campusleaders to reconsider plans for
the fall. D.C. Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser (D) cited similar con-
cerns Friday when she an-
nounced that travelers from
high-risk states would have to
quarantine for 14 days upon ar-
riving in the District — students
included.
The announcement from
Thomas J. LeBlanc, the universi-
ty’s president; M. Brian Blake,
provost and executive vice presi-
dent for academic affairs; MarkDiaz, executive vice president
and chief financial officer; and
M.L. “Cissy” Petty, vice president
for student affairs and dean of
students, comes about a month
before students were set to re-
sume some in-person instruc-
tion.
“We know just how much
many of you were looking for-
ward to being on campus this fall,
and we understand that this
news is disappointing,” the offi-
cials said in an email to thecampus. “However, we must al-
ways make the decisions that best
support the health, safety and
care of our community while
fulfilling our core academic mis-
sion.”
The university also unveiled
plans to provide a 10 percent
tuition discount to Foggy Bottom
undergraduates who live off cam-
pus, cutting $2,927.50 from its
$29,275 cost of attendance for the
semester. The tuition discount
recognizes that the pandemic hascaused economic hardship for
students and families, officials
said.
A limited number of on-cam-
pus beds will be offered to stu-
dents who have “extenuating per-
sonal or academic circumstanc-
es,” they added. The amount of
on-campus housing made avail-
able will depend on the number
of students who apply for and are
granted exemptions, said Crystal
Nosal, a spokeswoman.
SEE GWU ON B3GWU rolls back reopening plan, opting for virtual semester
RETROPOLISSALWAN GEORGES/THE WASHINGTON POSTNew cases in region
Through 5 p.m. Monday, 2,711 new
coronavirus cases were reported in
the District, Maryland and Virginia,
bringing the total cases to
182,806.
D.C. MD.VA.
+78+1, 128 +1,505
11,858 84,8 76 86, 072Coronavirus-related deaths
As of 5 p.m. Monday:
D.C. MD.* VA.
+1 +7 +4
582 3,44 72 ,082* Includes probable covid-19 deathsFAMILY PHOTO
Dan Smith, top, is the son
of Abram Smith, above,
who was born in bondage
during the Civil War.T
he whipping post. The lynching tree. The
wagon wheel. They were the stories of
slavery, an inheritance of fear and dread,
passed down from father to son.
The boy, barely 5, would listen, awed, as his father
spoke of life in Virginia, where he had been born
into bondage on a plantation during the Civil War
and suffered as a child laborer afterward.
As unlikely as it might seem, that boy, Daniel
Smith, is still alive at 88, a member of an almost
vanished demographic: The child of someone once
considered a piece of property instead of a human
being.
Long after leaving Massies Mill, Va., and moving
up north as a young man in his 20s, Smith’s father,
Abram Smith, married a woman who was decades
younger and fathered six children. Dan, the fifth,
was born in 1932 when Abram was 70. Only one
sibling besides Dan — Abe, 92 — is still alive.
It’s not possible to know how many people alive
today are the children of enslaved people, but we
shouldn’t be so surprised that they still exist
because the generations since slavery can be count-