Janette Hoston Harris

Dr. Janette Hoston Harris, the District’s first “City Historian, and founder of the Hall of Fame Society, died of cancer November 2, 2018. She is being remembered as an Civil Rights activist, educator  and entrepreneur who worked hard to…

Janette Hoston Harris, whose arrest during a lunch counter sit-in led to her expulsion from Southern University in 1960, was being remembered for her role in the civil rights movement following her death Friday in Washington. She was 79. … …