Professor Lauren Pearlman was awarded a Publication Subvention Grant to support her book, Democracy’s Capital: Black Political Power in Washington, D.C., 1960s-1970s, published by the University of North Carolina Press in Fall 2019. This book captures the transition from black protest to black political power on the municipal level under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, and explains how strict federal oversight and intervention into home rule impeded the democratic potential of the civil rights movement.