Shoenfeld, Sarah Jane
Person
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Brinnie and Angie Whitehurst interview part 1, 2019-12-17
Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_002_01.wav
Abstract
In Part 1 of this interview, Brinnie and Angie recount the various places Brinnie lived in the District before moving to Peabody Street; the experience of living in a 2-bedroom house with Fort Slocum as their backyard; their neighbors; and another relative’s loss of her home in Petworth to eminent domain. Angie also discusses her memories of the schools she attended.
Dates:
2019-12-17
Brinnie and Angie Whitehurst interview part 2, 2019-12-17
Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_002_02.wav
Abstract
In Part 2 of this interview, Angie talks about the experience of being one of the few Black students at historically white Wilson High School in the late 1960s. She also recounts finding cannonballs and steer bones in the woods behind the house on Peabody Street. Brinnie discusses the difficulty of finding a new house and the possibility of having to send some of her children away to live with their grandparents.
Dates:
2019-12-17
Joe Hairston interview part 1, 2016-11-15
Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_004_01.mp3
Abstract
In this interview, Hairston discusses his role in integrating the 1300 block of Kennedy Street NW in the mid-1950s and his move to D.C.’s Shepherd Park neighborhood in 1963, where he joined the efforts of Neighbors, Inc. to oppose blockbusting, racial steering, and other forms of racial discrimination in housing. He also discusses his daughters’ experiences in D.C.’s newly- integrated schools and later work by Neighbors, Inc. to stop the construction of freeways through D.C., promote traffic...
Dates:
Other: 2016-11-15
Joe Hairston interview part 2, 2016-11-15
Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_004_02.mp3
Abstract
In this interview, Muriel discusses her childhood and her years as a young woman. Muriel discusses her experiences navigating her K-12 schools. Most notably, Muriel discusses her experience of racism and racial integration at Roosevelt High School. Muriel draws from her experiences and the observations she made of her classmates. Muriel discusses her higher education experiences at Howard University. During this time and after graduating from Roosevelt, Muriel was able to travel for social...
Dates:
Other: 2016-11-15
Mapping Segregation in Washington D.C. Oral History Project
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 220
Scope and Contents
Mapping Segregation in Washington DC: School and Neighborhood Desegregation in Ward 4 documents the transformation of Ward 4 neighborhoods and schools during the 1950s and early 1960s. Ward 4 was predominantly white in the early 1940s, but saw a shift in demographics as white families fled after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bolling v. Sharpe, in which public school segregation was deemed unconstitutional in the District of Columbia. This project primarily consists of interviews with...
Dates:
2014 - 2021
Marietta Crichlow and Linda Crichlow White interview, 2014-10-02
Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_006.mp3
Abstract
In this interview, Marietta discusses her childhood and her years as a young woman, when she lived in her family’s Le Droit Park home while attending Howard University. She also discusses her move to Petworth in 1950 with her husband and daughter Linda. She talks about what the neighborhood was like when they first moved there, before most of the white families moved away, and in later years when she was a member of the Block Club, which met monthly. She and Linda comment on how the...
Dates:
2014-10-02
Muriel Tillinghast interview, 2021-12-13
Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_007.mp4
Abstract
In this interview, Muriel discusses her childhood and her years as a young woman. Muriel discusses her experiences navigating her K-12 schools. Most notably, Muriel discusses her experience of racism and racial integration at Roosevelt High School. Muriel draws from her experiences and the observations she made of her classmates. Muriel discusses her higher education experiences at Howard University. During this time and after graduating from Roosevelt, Muriel was able to travel for social...
Dates:
Other: 2021-12-13
Series 5: Mapping Segregation in Washington DC: School and Neighborhood Desegregation in Ward 4, 2017
Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc005
Scope and Contents
Mapping Segregation in Washington D.C.: School Integration in Ward 4 documents the transformation of Ward 4 neighborhoods and schools during the 1950s and early 1960s. Ward 4 was predominantly white in the early 1940s, but saw a shift in demographics as white families fled after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bolling v. Sharpe, in which public school segregation was deemed unconstitutional in the District of Columbia. This project interviews Ward 4 residents that were among the first...
Dates:
2017
Steve Nelson interview photograph, 2017-07-12
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc005
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Mapping Segregation in Washington D.C.: School Integration in Ward 4 documents the transformation of Ward 4 neighborhoods and schools during the 1950s and early 1960s. Ward 4 was predominantly white in the early 1940s, but saw a shift in demographics as white families fled after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bolling v. Sharpe, in which public school segregation was deemed unconstitutional in the District of Columbia. This project interviews Ward 4 residents that were among the first...
Dates:
2017-07-12
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- Archival Object 8
- Collection 1
- Subject
- Black persons 5
- Petworth (Washington, D.C.) 4
- Women 4
- Education 3
- School integration 3
- Segregation 3
- 16th Street Heights (Washington, D.C.) 2
- African American universities and colleges 2
- African Americans 2
- Citizens' associations 2
- Community activists 2
- Eminent domain 2
- Manor Park (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Neighborhoods 2
- Pleasant Plains (Washington, D.C.) 2
- Racism 2
- Book clubs (Discussion groups) 1
- Childhood and youth 1
- Civil rights movements 1
- Discrimination 1
- Housing 1
- LeDroit Park (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Oral history 1
- Park View (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Real property 1
- Shepherd Park (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Southwest (Washington, D.C.) 1
- United States--Officials and employees 1 + ∧ less
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