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Community organization

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 33 Collections and/or Records:

Neighborhood Blogs of Washington, D.C. Web Archive

 Digital Collection
Identifier: dcpl_web0001
Dates: 2017-
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Neighbors, Inc. Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 110
Scope and Contents

The materials in this collection consist mainly of topical files compiled by Neighbors, Inc. from the late 1950s to the early 1990s. Included in the materials are pamphlets, clippings, correspondence, photographs, brochures, and newsletters relating to neighborhood associations, religious organizations, political organizations, and government reports.

Dates: 1958-1990
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Nettie Hailes interview, 2020-09-07

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc029_04.wav
Abstract Ms. Nettie Hailes reflects on her life, the influences of Dr. Dorothy I. Height, President Emerita of National Council of Negro Women, and the legacy of Mary McLeod Bethune, Founder of National Council of Negro Women. She acknowledges the strong support that she received during her term in office and eagerly supports the leadership of youth and those who would follow. She is optimistic about the future and the collective strength of the section and organization. She appeals for youth to step...
Dates: 2020-09-07
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 29: The Washington Section, National Council of Negro Women Monument or Movement: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Norma Anderson interview, 2020-11-11

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc029_05.wav
Abstract Ms. Norma Anderson provides a candid discussion concerning her motivation to maintain active membership in the National Council of Negro Women for over 60 years. She shares her professional skills and energy to benefit the organization and community. Ms. Anderson addresses the need to sustain the mission of National Council of Negro Women for current and future generations of women. She also identifies the need for a deeper commitment and approach to reach young girls and women due the...
Dates: 2020-11-11
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 29: The Washington Section, National Council of Negro Women Monument or Movement: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Oliver, Robert T.

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: 31172091111484]
Identifier: 2021.054
Dates: 2005 - 2019
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Parents United For the DC Public Schools

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1999-007
Dates: 1980 - 1997
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Queen’s Chapel Civic Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: 105
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of meeting minutes, administrative materials, community newsletters and announcements, correspondence, and legal documents related to the Queen’s Chapel Civic Association.

Dates: 1965-1995
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

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
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection

Session 4, 2021-01-21

 Item
Scope and Contents

This is the fourth session of a life history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History. In this interview Cosby Hunt discusses returning to Washington, D.C., after finishing graduate school at the University of Georgia, his teaching career at Bell Multicultural High School (1997-2010), and his family life, including how he met his wife and how they named their two sons.

Dates: 2021-01-21
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / Creating and Teaching Real World History Oral History Project / Series 1: Cosby Hunt / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Shaw Coalition Against the Convention Center

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2003-003
Dates: Majority of material found in Unknown
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

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