Subjects – House Restaurant
Constantino Brumidi’s fresco of the British Surrender at Yorktown
October 17, 1781
On this date, General George Washington accepted Lord Cornwallis’s surrender at Yorktown, marking the penultimate battle of the Revolutionary War.
Representative Oscar De Priest of Illinois and the Member’s Dining Room
January 23, 1934
On this date, Representative Oscar De Priest of Illinois introduced a resolution to end Jim Crow discrimination in the House Restaurant.