The Saga of the Three Sisters

Subway, Yes. Freeway, No

In this episode, we talk with Zachery Schrag, author of The Great Society Subway, about the legacy of the DC Freeway Revolt. "One of the projects for the next century may be demolishing those freeways and replacing them with more human-scaled alternatives," he says.

The Saga of the Three Sisters

In this episode, we take to the DC streets with activists in the summer and fall of 1969 to protest the roads that would level their communities. At the center of the fight: the construction of the Three Sisters Bridge across the Potomac in Georgetown.

Not Another Inch of Freeway

In this episode, we meet some of the members of Washington DC's Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis. This diverse group of activists spent most of the 1960s and 1970s standing in opposition to another inch of freeway.

Sneak Peek

In the debut season of Echoes + Rhymes, we're going into the archives to hear the history of the DC Freeway Revolt from those who were a part of that long-ago fight. It was a fight for community, for equality, for representation, and for environmental justice. It's a fight that has not yet ended.