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(from the guide): "The 1960s saw the neighborhood develop a Latino presence, and Mt. Pleasant Street became its Main Street. The storefront at 3161 once housed Casa Dilone, the first bodega (grocery) here." 

In the 1960s and 70s many immigrants from Central and South America arrived in DC ... most fleeing war, economic troubles or political turmoil. For example, the troubles plaguing the Dominican Republic by the dictator Rafael Trujillo. The Mirabel sisters were Dominican political dissidents who opposed the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. This is a portrait of Maria Teresa, one of the Mirable sisters who came to be known as Las Mariposas (The Butterflies).