Women
Found in 140 Collections and/or Records:
Adwoa Aggrey interview, 2020-10-25
Ms. Adwoa Beidleman-Aggrey reflects on her life, training, and involvement as a member and President of the Washington Section, National Council of Negro Women. She shares candid conversations and her insights concerning issues affecting some of the needs faced by women and their families.
Akua Kouyate-Tate interview, 2018-08-13
Alice and Loretta Tate interview part 1, 2020-05-26
In Part 1 of the interview, Alice and Loretta Tate, mother and daughter, talks about life in the Marshall Heights community. Alice Tate is native Washingtonian that spent the majority of her childhood in Marshall Heights. She lived on one of the few farms in the neighborhood. She worked for the federal government and also raised her children in the Marshall Heights neighborhood. Mrs. Tate is an avid church-goer and a devout Christian.
Alice and Loretta Tate interview part 2, 2020-09-17
In Part 2 of the interview, Alice and Loretta Tate, mother and daughter, talks about life in the Marshall Heights community.
Alice Kelly interview, 2018-01-10
Alice Kelly discusses her initial move to Mount Pleasant, her original impressions of the neighborhood, the improvements at the local elementary school, community efforts to improve the main street, her involvement with the ANC, and the Mount Pleasant riot.
Aliza Leventhal interview, 2023-04-07
This is an interview with Aliza Leventhal, a private citizen who documented the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence in 2020 and later became professionally involved as a librarian and archivist in preserving the artifacts of the Fence in 2021.
Andrea Turner interview, 2022-12-16
Anne Becker interview, 2017-10-06
Ardie Myers interview, 2021-12-08
In this interview, Ms. Ardie Myers, a long-time D.C. resident, discusses her life and experiences moving from Memphis, Tennessee, to New York City, and later, to Washington, D.C. Ms. Myers discusses her family life and educational experiences in Memphis as well as segregation and civil rights activism during her upbringing. She also talks about moving to New York City in the late 1960s and her move to Washington, D.C., in 1971.
Audrey Hinton and Diane Hinton Perry interview, 2017-08-17
In this interview, sisters Diane Hinton Perry and Audrey Hinton discuss hostility from white neighbors when their family bought a house on Farragut Street NW in 1953; white flight; switching schools after the Supreme Court ruled segregated schools unconstitutional; and businesses along 14th Street. They also describe their father's career as a physician, the discrimination he faced from the white medical establishment, and their own careers.