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Bobby Jean 'BJ' Wills describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project Bobbie Jean 'BJ' Wills is a D.C. native, she is a mother and grandmother, now retired BJ's faith and family keep her going, she continues to reside in southeast D.C. after being displaced from Barry Farm.

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Coleman 'Sugar' Hall describes his early life, schooling, education, family and his experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project and the role of being an out gay man played in his life.

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Detrice Belt describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project

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Jane Souder describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project.

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Jewell Simms describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project

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Michelle Hamilton describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project.

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Nicole Odom describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project.

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Paulette Matthews describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project.

Scope and Contents This project interviewed current and former residents to record details about their lives and viewpoints living in a place that, although highly stigmatized and marginalized, has been their home and that of their kin and other members of vital social networks for decades. In documenting the added tension of a community undergoing the dramatic and inexorable shifts of urban redevelopment, changes the community did not request or desire, this project endeavors to capture a disappearing way of...