This D.C. library has a new name. Meet the woman it honors.
Lamond-Riggs/Lillian J. Huff LibraryThe $20 million library building was dedicated in June, replacing an earlier library that went up in 1983. And“When we were in school, she was always fussing. We had to go far to go to the library,” Huff-Lyons said.— lived in the 5100 block of 12th Street NE. The closest library back then was the Woodridge branch, two miles away off Rhode Island Avenue NE.
“She was a precinct captain of Precinct 66,” Huff-Lyons said. “When they had elections, she always worked at the poll.”Sen. Edward KennedyAdvertisement “We had drama. We had music — instrumental and singing. We had dance. We had creative writing,” Huff-Lyons said.“All the kids, when they turned 18, she made sure they registered to vote,” Huff-Lyons said. “She had the cards. They came to the house and filled out the cards, and she turned them in.”Growing up, Diane and her late brother got used to their mother’s activism. The family attended the Florida Avenue Baptist Church.
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