{"content":[{"text":"Recent Oral Histories","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.090099,"width":0.16617500000000004,"height":0.017421000000000006}},{"text":"The following additional oral histories can now be viewed on the Society’s website:","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.118975,"width":0.595649,"height":0.01738300000000001}},{"text":"James F. Davey, Esq., Clerk of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1970 - 1991.","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.148066,"width":0.685523,"height":0.01738300000000001}},{"text":"David Ginsburg, Esq., Ginsburg, Feldman & Bress, Chartered","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.177081,"width":0.44578700000000004,"height":0.01738300000000001}},{"text":"David B. Isbell, Covington & Burling LLP","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.206097,"width":0.291524,"height":0.01738300000000001}},{"text":"Hon. Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1997 - present","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.235187,"width":0.651155,"height":0.01738300000000001}},{"text":"Hon.","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.264203,"width":0.03456400000000001,"height":0.017382999999999982}},{"text":"John H. Pratt, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, 1968 - 1995.","bbox":{"left":0.28525,"top":0.264203,"width":0.533245,"height":0.017382999999999982}},{"text":"Excerpts from an Oral History in the Historical Society’s collection","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.314872,"width":0.515803,"height":0.01742100000000002}},{"text":"From the oral history of Judge Gerhart Gesell:","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.343748,"width":0.3323290000000001,"height":0.017382999999999982}},{"text":"“In retrospect, it is almost unbelievable that the New Deal and what it stood for could ignore the \n problems of the black citizens. Not only was the city [Washington, D.C.] a totally segregated \n town but often in early days while walking to work, as I did for years, a black gentleman coming \n toward you might step off the curb, take his hat off as you walked by and say ‘Good morning.’ \n Most of us, a thing to be ashamed of, were really not conscious of the degree of isolation that \n existed for blacks. We were wrapped up in matters that appeared to be of great national \n concern. Roosevelt did not address black discrimination until very late in his presidency, when \n he did take some halting steps in the military.”","bbox":{"left":0.241667,"top":0.372839,"width":0.685701,"height":0.11897400000000002}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.060098,"top":0.091894,"width":0.144608,"height":0.111742},{"left":0.060098,"top":0.316364,"width":0.013333,"height":0.013485},{"left":0.040442,"top":0.3147,"width":0.194715,"height":0.204345}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.060098,"top":0.091894,"width":0.144608,"height":0.111742},{"left":0.060098,"top":0.316364,"width":0.013333,"height":0.013485},{"left":0.040442,"top":0.3147,"width":0.194715,"height":0.204345}]}