Huron, Amanda
Person
Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:
Raymond Henderson interview, 2018-07-02
File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc006_03.wav
Scope and Contents
Raymond Henderson, a native of Washington, D.C., discusses his childhood mostly spent in the Anacostia neighborhood, attending different elementary and junior high schools before dropping out of high school to join the Marine Corps at the age of 17, his experiences during the Vietnam War, earning his GED and enrolling in Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia) to study political science, the evlution of his political conscieness and his involvment with student...
Dates:
2018-07-02
Series 6: Federal City College Oral History Project, 2018
Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc006
Scope and Contents
This project documents the history of Federal City College (FCC), an experiment in public higher education for the people of Washington, D.C.
Dates:
2018
Series 24: Experiments in Housing Organization, 2019
Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc024
Scope and Contents
The project documents experiments in housing organizing in 1970s Washington, D.C., focusing both on collective education projects organizers developed to educate themselves and others about the city’s housing crisis, and also on the creative neighborhood-based housing organizing with which many District residents were experimenting. It focused mostly on people involved with two groups: City-Wide Housing Coalition, which existed 1974-1980, and the Adams Morgan Organization, founded in 1972...
Dates:
2019
Vanella Crawford interview, 2018-07-11
File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc006_04.wav
Scope and Contents
Vanella Crawford, a native of Washington, D.C., discusses her family history, living in public housing before moving to the Columbia Height neighborhood, attending Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee and then enrolling in the first class at Federal City College (now the University of the District of Columbia), her awakening the the catholic faith and political awareness, traveling to Europe and Africa as part of Experiments in International Living program, her family's concerns about...
Dates:
2018-07-11
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