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Crichlow, Marietta Louise Stevens, 1919-2020

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Marietta Crichlow and Linda Crichlow White interview, 2014-10-02

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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