Scope and Contents This oral history interview was conducted with Lashonia Thompson-El by Kristin Adair in Washington, DC. Lashonia Thompson-El was born in 1973 in Washington, DC. In the interview, Lashonia speaks about growing up in Southeast Washington, in a family that had migrated from North Carolina. As a teenager, she got involved in a life of crime. At the age of 19, she was arrested and later sentenced to 20 to 60 years in prison for a double homicide. She was granted parole in December 2011, after...

Scope and Contents This oral history interview was conducted with Lashonia Thompson-El by Kristin Adair in Washington, DC. Lashonia Thompson-El was born in 1973 in Washington, DC. In the interview, Lashonia speaks about growing up in Southeast Washington, in a family that had migrated from North Carolina. As a teenager, she got involved in a life of crime. At the age of 19, she was arrested and later sentenced to 20 to 60 years in prison for a double homicide. She was granted parole in December 2011, after...

Scope and Contents This oral history interview was conducted with Lashonia Thompson-El by Kristin Adair in Washington, DC. Lashonia Thompson-El was born in 1973 in Washington, DC. In the interview, Lashonia speaks about growing up in Southeast Washington, in a family that had migrated from North Carolina. As a teenager, she got involved in a life of crime. At the age of 19, she was arrested and later sentenced to 20 to 60 years in prison for a double homicide. She was granted parole in December 2011, after...

Scope and Contents This oral history interview was conducted with Lashonia Thompson-El by Kristin Adair in Washington, DC. Lashonia Thompson-El was born in 1973 in Washington, DC. In the interview, Lashonia speaks about growing up in Southeast Washington, in a family that had migrated from North Carolina. As a teenager, she got involved in a life of crime. At the age of 19, she was arrested and later sentenced to 20 to 60 years in prison for a double homicide. She was granted parole in December 2011, after...

Abstract Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s. He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...

Abstract Activist and farmer Michael Tabor discusses starting his farm and the early creation of the Adams Morgan Farmers Market. He reflects on the changing character of the neighborhood from its early activist and radical roots to visible changes from gentrification over the past several decades. He reminisces about businesses and personalities connected with Adams Morgan history, the role of the farmers market over time, and his own continuing work as a farmer, writer, and activist at the age of...

Abstract Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s. He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...

Abstract Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s. He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...

Abstract Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s. He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...

Abstract Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s. He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...