Jacob Funk
"Founder" of the West End Neighborhood.
Thaddeus Stevens
Abolistionist.
School in West End named after him.
School no longer exists.
Walt Whitman
Wrote O Captain My Captain in while living in the West End Neighborhood.
Christian Heurich
Longstanding Brewery in DC of the West End Neighborhood.
Myrtilla Miner
Abolitionist.
Opened the Normal School for Colored Girls.
Teacher of Emma V Brown who became one of the first black public school teachers in DC.
Rayford Logan
Historian and Pan- African Activist.
Grew up in the West End- went to Stevens School.
Charles Drew
Inventor - blood transfusions.
Grew up in the West End- went to Stevens School.
Lena Horne
Singer. Actress. Activist.
Had a condo in the West End.
Duke Ellington
Renowed Jazz musician.
Born in the West End.
Petey Greene
Disk Jockey. TV Personality. Social Justice Commentator. Activist.
rew up in the West End- went to Stevens School.
Colbert King
Columnist. Historian.
rew up in the West End- went to Stevens School.
Letitia Woods Brown
Historian. First full-time African American Professor@ GW.
First African American woman to obtain a PHd from Harvard University in History.
Ruth Bader Ginsburgh
Supreme Court Justice. Activist.
2nd women to be appointed to supreme court, advanced women's rights.
Lives at Watergate.