Among the African-American students who lived and studied in these row houses
were future UN secretary and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ralph Bunche, and William Hastie,
who later became a US Supreme Court Justice. Other young students who lived in the
row houses included Lewis Reading, who later served as an attorney in the landmark case,
Brown vs. the Board of Education, Robert Weaver, an economics major who went on to
become the first African-American member of a presidential Cabinet and Harvard Law School
graduate John P. Davis, known for his role in the National Negro Congress. They were all roommates,
who lived in one of the row houses. They would play poker games together and have these grand
discussions; afterward, they would retire to their respective rooms to study.
