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Collection
Identifier: 117
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of multiple bound copies of student newspapers; Tech Life from McKinley Technology High School, Ballou Charter from Frank W. Ballou Senior High School, The Cardozo Owl from Cardozo Senior High School, The Central Bulletin from Central High School, The Coolidge Courier and Colt Pride from Calvin Coolidge High School, The Sentinel from Joel Elias Spingarn High School, and The Balance Sheet from Washington Business High School. None of the newspaper titles are a...
Dates:
1936-2002
Collection
Identifier: 002
Scope and Contents
The collection contains District of Columbia Citizens for Better Public Education (DCCBPE) annual and board of directors’ meeting minutes, administrative directives, legislative testimony, financial reports, and copies of the organization’s newsletter, the Bulletin Board. Other materials included are numerous studies and reports sponsored by DCCBPE including Student Responsibilities and Rights, A Quest for Educational Opportunity in a Major Urban School District, and Creating Resource...
Dates:
1965 - 1982
Collection
Identifier: dcpl_web0008
Collection
Identifier: dcpl_web0016
Scope and Contents
This collection is comprised of 56 web sites documenting the candidates running for various elected positions within D.C. government during the 2022 election.
Dates:
2022
Collection
Identifier: 087
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of photos, clippings, correspondence, and a copy of the Washington College handbook, as well as a diary titled The College Girl’s Record, which includes images, clippings, invitations, and Madeline Frank’s impressions of Washington College and her classmates.
Dates:
1905-1906
Collection
Identifier: 005
Scope and Contents
The collection was artificially created by the Library and consists of the Shaed and Baltimore family papers; as well materials regarding Elzie Hoffman. It includes photographs, programs, published books, biographies, letters, certificates, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, and other family memorabilia. The collection has been divided into series by family. Many of the items are related to Washington, D.C. educational institutions that most of the members of the families attended; Dunbar...
Dates:
1902 - 1975
Collection
Identifier: 001
Scope and Contents
The papers primarily document Julius Hobson’s activist and political activities from the early 1960s until his death in 1977. Included are materials from civil rights organizations that he headed, was involved, or helped found. In particular, the collection contains correspondence, internal memoranda, meeting minutes, financial information, newsletters, membership lists, press releases, clippings, and by laws regarding the D.C. Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Associated...
Dates:
1960-1977
Collection
Identifier: 140
Scope and Contents
The Charlotte Wesley Holloman papers contain classical music scores, sheet music, recordings, news clippings, correspondence, ephemera, art and artifacts, books, concert programs, vinyl LPs, and photographs.
Dates:
1797-2013
Collection
Identifier: 221
Scope and Contents
The collection includes material collected and created by David Aaronson, founder of the Literary Arts Program (LAP), regarding the LAP, Urban Journalism Workshop, and other programs in D.C. Public Schools that encourage student artistic expression and publication. Materials include printed material, newsletters, publications, journals, correspondence, and photographs.
Dates:
1969-2019, undated
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 220
Scope and Contents
Mapping Segregation in Washington DC: School and Neighborhood Desegregation in Ward 4 documents the transformation of Ward 4 neighborhoods and schools during the 1950s and early 1960s. Ward 4 was predominantly white in the early 1940s, but saw a shift in demographics as white families fled after the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Bolling v. Sharpe, in which public school segregation was deemed unconstitutional in the District of Columbia. This project primarily consists of interviews with...
Dates:
2014 - 2021
