Snow-Storm: Washington City, Francis Scott Key, and the Forgetten Race Riot of 1835
Buy Morning Edition: ‘Snow-Storm’ Brought Devastation to D.C.
Jefferson Morley vistited Morning Edition to describes a little-known story of one of the nation’s most famous cities. The city is Washington, D.C. A chain of violent events took place here in 1835. Few of this city’s buildings from that time remain, but you can still sense what it was like if you sit in a park by the White House, Jefferson Morley is the author of a new book called Snow-Storm.
