Shoenfeld, Sarah Jane
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
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- 16th Street Heights (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Citizens' associations 1
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- Eminent domain 1
- Oral history 1
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