Kay Graham's All-White Salons: Too Hot for Outlook
Andrew Stephen had an interesting, lengthy piece in the Sunday WashingtonPostabout Georgetown's long road from slave port to "all-white enclave." It was so interesting, in fact, that he published it twice -- in yesterday'sPost, and in the July 10 issue of his own magazine, theNew Statesman.
Not that they're theexactsame piece. There are plenty of differences, actually. Like how thisNew Statesmanparagraph:
The likes of the Kennedys, Pamela Harriman and Kay Graham joined forces to create those Georgetown social salons of ludicrous legend, but the only black face I can recall ever seeing in such a place since I moved to Georgetown is that of Vernon Jordan, superlawyer and Mr Fixit for Bill Clinton.
Became this:
Blacks were thus becoming invisible by the time the likes of Democratic doyenne Pamela Harriman started creating Georgetown's all-white "social salons" of such ludicrous legend.
Oh, Kennedy stills gets a call-out a little later on, but someone left Ms. Graham's name off thePostpiece, for reasons we simply cannot fathom.
Georgetown's Hidden History [WP]
The House of Slaves [New Statesman]