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were large-scale projects to modernize Washington. The Washington Monument, a tribute to George
Washington and the world’s tallest stone structure, was completed in 1884.
At the same time many of the slums that surrounded the Capitol, were cleared away and replaced with new public monuments and government buildings.
During the Great Depression of the 1930s, the city’s population grew rapidly as many new offices were needed to implement the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt
In 1957, Washington became the first major city in the nation with a majority African-American population. Like many cities, it had received thousands of black people from the South in the Great Migration. In the 1960s, Washington became a focus of the Civil Rights Movement, with the March on Washington and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famed “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial.