Strivers’ Section Historic District

The Strivers’ Section is a historic district located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood of Northwest Washington, D.C.nStrivers’ Section was historically an enclave of upper-middle-class African Americans, often community leaders, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It takes its name from a turn-of-the-20th-century writer who described the district as “the Striver’s section, a community of Negro aristocracy.”Among its most notable residents was Frederick Douglass, runaway slave, abolitionist, orator, writer, and civil servant.