Reginald H. Booker Dies Last Year At 74

Booker was an Emergency Committee on the Transportation Crisis (ECTC) figure who worked with Sammie Abbott and Marion Barry

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2009/10/ectc-creations.html

REGINALD HARVEY BOOKER (74) Passed peacefully on July 19, 2015. He is survived by one daughter, Jaha Booker; two sons, Daniel Gayden and Jamal Booker; three grandchildren, four sisters, Germerish Booker, Arlene Jackson, Ruby Holt and Wendetta Watson; two brothers, Harry Jackson, Jr. and Jerome Jackson; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services will be Monday, July 27 at Horton's Chapel, 600 Kennedy St., NW.; 10 a.m. viewing and 11 a.m. service -

http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/washingtonpost/obituary.aspx

I wrote about this freeway controversy previously:

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2009/10/ruth-abbott-widow-of-sammie-abbott-dies.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2014/09/getting-over.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2012/01/crafted-controversy-scuttling-of-jfks-b.html

A Takoma Park, Maryland resident's 1967 Letter to then Gov. Spiro Agnew How This Controversy Was Being Stoked:

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2015/02/june-1-1967-duncan-wall-letter-to-spiro.html