Patricia Quander Hall interview, 2020-09-23

Item

Identifier: dcpl_dcohc035_06.wav

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Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

D.C. Oral History Collaborative (DCOHC) is a citywide initiative to train community members in oral history skills, fund new and ongoing oral history projects, connect volunteers with oral history projects, and publicize existing oral history collections. DCOHC is a project of DC Public Library, HumanitiesDC, and the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. This collection contains oral history interviews, transcripts, and indexes produced by DCOHC grantees.

Dates

Creation: 2020-09-23

Creator

Language of Materials

English

Biographical / Historical

Patricia Quander Hall was born in the 1930s in near Lynchburg, Virginia. Her mother was a school teacher and she passed away when Patricia was only 6 years old, due to complications from tuberculosis. Patricia briefly attended the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City and then came back to Washington, D.C. and enrolled at Miner Teachers College. This is where she would eventually meet her husband, Burt Hall, Sr, while he was attending Howard University. Patricia and Burt were married in 1953. He worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and she worked at The Lab School of Washington for several years. They had two children.

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From the Collection: 1.13 Terabytes

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Abstract

Patricia Quander Hall shares hear earliest memories growing up in Lynchburg, Virginia and goes on to discusses how she and her husband, Burt Hall, Sr., ended up becoming a part of a wave of new, Black professionals who first integrated the Penn Branch neighborhood in southeast Washington, D.C. She shares what it was like to live in the community as a young person of color in the 1960s and she shares her opinions on life today as a senior living in Penn Branch.