Editing Washington, D.C. (section)

=== Civil rights and home rule era ===
{{See also|1968 Washington, D.C., riots|District of Columbia home rule}}
[[File:IhaveadreamMarines.jpg|thumb|The [[March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom|March on Washington]] at the [[Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool]] on August 28, 1963]]

The [[Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution]] was ratified in 1961, granting the district three votes in the [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College]] for the election of president and vice president, but still not affording the city's residents representation in Congress.<ref>{{cite web |title=Twenty-third Amendment |url=https://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt23_user.html |work=CRS Annotated Constitution |publisher=Legal Information Institute (Cornell University Law School) |access-date=August 28, 2012 |archive-date=August 30, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120830173738/http://www.law.cornell.edu/anncon/html/amdt23_user.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

After the [[Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.|assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.]] on April 4, 1968, [[1968 Washington, D.C., riots|riots broke out in the city]], primarily in the U&nbsp;Street, 14th&nbsp;Street, 7th&nbsp;Street, and H&nbsp;Street corridors, which were predominantly black residential and commercial areas. The riots raged for three days until more than 13,600 federal troops and [[Army National Guard|Washington, D.C., Army National Guardsmen]] stopped the violence. Many stores and other buildings were burned, and rebuilding from the riots was not completed until the late 1990s.<ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Schwartzman |author2=Robert E. Pierre |title=From Ruins To Rebirth |date=April 6, 2008 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/05/AR2008040501607.html |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=June 6, 2008 |archive-date=May 4, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110504041451/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/05/AR2008040501607.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1973, Congress enacted the [[District of Columbia Home Rule Act]] providing for an elected mayor and 13-member council for the district.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.abfa.com/ogc/hract.htm |title=District of Columbia Home Rule Act |access-date=May 27, 2008 |date=February 1999 |publisher=Government of the District of Columbia |archive-date=August 26, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110826223320/http://www.abfa.com/ogc/hract.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1975, [[Walter Washington]] became the district's first elected and first black mayor.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mathews |first=Jay |title=City's 1st Mayoral Race, as Innocent as Young Love |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/mayor101199.htm |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=October 11, 1999 |page=A1 |access-date=November 29, 2015 |archive-date=October 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171014050258/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/local/2000/mayor101199.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>