DC Statehood-Green Party

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DC Statehood-Green Party

1739 Irving St, Nw


Washington dc, 20010


Phone: 202 483 416502-483-4165 


e-mail: dws@scs.howard.edu 


Website: http://www.dcstatehoodgreen.org/

 


The D.C. Statehood-Green Party was founded in 1971 by Julius Hobson, Josephine Butler, Lou Aronica, and Hilda and Charlie Mason (amongst many others). Hobson, an economist and major civil rights leader, led the fight for Statehood, and saw this fight as emblematic of the struggle for self-government for Blacks and working class people in D.C.   

 

The Party has placed two people on the City Council and two, Hilda Mason and Gail Dixon, on the fully elected D.C. Board of Education. Hobson and Mason were pivotal in securing an elected Board of Education for D.C. The Party is equally proud of its reputation for integrity; its candidates do not take money from anyone associated with the Board of Trade or the Federal City Council. Because of similarities in philosophies, and a desire to avoid competing against one another, the Statehood and Green Parties merged in 1999.