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Article: Living on Edge in Mount Pleasant; D.C. Neighborhood's Delicate Racial Balance Is Threatened
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 7, 1990
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Stand on a corner in Mount Pleasant, a little neighborhood two
miles from the White House in the middle of Northwest Washington, and
the contrasts are kaleidoscopic.
On the main drag, Mount Pleasant Street, white children kick a
soccer ball in front of El Progreso Market while silent Hispanic
women size up the chorizo inside.
On another block, you can buy videos from Africa or Central
America; on the next, barbecued ribs and corn bread from a
restaurant owned by a Korean immigrant. A Salvadoran restaurant
serves pizza, its owner is Iranian.
In a city where skin-color lines are sharply marked and only