Skip to main content

African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 318 Collections and/or Records:

Irene Pierce interview, 2021-07-15

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc034_04.wav
Abstract A career federal employee who answered the call to ministry in the United Methodist Church later in life, Rev. Irene C. Pierce reflects on her 95 years. This includes her early childhood and a later visit to Pickens, South Carolina; her church life, extending beyond Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C., to the general church and then pastoring a small Black church in a mostly white town; dealing with racism while trying to climb the ladder at the Treasury and Commerce...
Dates: 2021-07-15
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 34: Asbury United Methodist Church Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Ivy City Oral History Project Collection

 Collection
Identifier: OHP027
Scope and Contents From 2005 and 2007, Ingrid Drake coordinated the Ivy City Oral History Project, in collaboration with the youth of Ivy City Achievers. She interviewed and supervised interviews with residents of the Ivy City neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The project was part of a larger initiative of Empower D.C., a grassroots nonprofit in D.C., called the Ivy City Neighborhood and Oral History Project, which began in 2004. The larger initiative arose from a plan to preserve Alexander Crummell School in...
Dates: 2005-2007
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Jane Souder interview, 2019-07-08

 File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc019
Scope and Contents

Jane Souder describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project.

Dates: 2019-07-08
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 19: Empower D.C. - Barry Farm Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Charlene Drew Jarvis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 131
Scope and Contents The Charlene Drew Jarvis Papers document Drew-Jarvis’s campaign for Washington, D.C.’s City Council, her time as national co-chair for the Clinton/Gore presidential campaign, and her work on the National Institute of Health Mental Health Advisory Council. Documents include biographical information, brochures, campaign materials, correspondence, contact lists, council files, Board of Elections and Ethics files, mailings, programs, photographs, publications, speeches, and audiovisual...
Dates: 1978-2014
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Jasmine Fletcher interview part 1, 2019-08-03

 File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc018
Scope and Contents

Jasmine Fletcher discusses her life growing up in Silver Spring, MD, being bullied in school, her college life at Howard University, and being a single parent. Fletcher also talks about her introduction to The Davis Center and Ms. Beatrice Davis-Williams, being a student at The Davis Center, and the magnitude of servicing a community for 50 years for any business.

Dates: 2019-08-03
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 18: The Davis Center Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Jasmine Fletcher interview part 2, 2019-08-03

 File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc018
Scope and Contents

Jasmine Fletcher discusses her life growing up in Silver Spring, MD, being bullied in school, her college life at Howard University, and being a single parent. Fletcher also talks about her introduction to The Davis Center and Ms. Beatrice Davis-Williams, being a student at The Davis Center, and the magnitude of servicing a community for 50 years for any business.

Dates: 2019-08-03
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 18: The Davis Center Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Jettie Brown interview, 2017-12-24

 File
Identifier: rwhc_ohp_2017_004.wav
Scope and Contents In this oral history interview, Jettie Brown discusses her life and experiences moving from Blair, Virginia, to Chester, Pennsylvania, to Long Island, New York, and ultimately to Washington, D.C. Mrs. Brown talks about her upbringing and family life on the farm in Blair, segregation and race relations in Blair, and her family's migration to Chester, Pennsylvania, when she was twenty years old. Mrs. Brown also discusses moving to Long Island with her husband and their move to the Washington,...
Dates: 2017-12-24
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project / Series 4: 2017-2018 School Year / Sub-series 1: Interviews

Jewel Simms interview, 2019-07-02

 File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc019
Scope and Contents

Jewell Simms describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project

Dates: 2019-07-02
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 19: Empower D.C. - Barry Farm Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Joseph Owen Curtis Photograph Collection

 Digital Collection
Identifier: dcpl_p007
Dates: 1920 ca. - 1980 ca.
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Joseph Yearwood interview, 2021-06-16

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc034_05.wav
Abstract Dr. Joseph N. Yearwood III reflects on the racial discrimination that caused his parents to send him to Brooklyn, N.Y., in the mid-1940s for his early education; the life he experienced upon his return to the District of Columbia at the age of seven, and his subsequent education and career choices; the joy of service and connection through membership in his fraternity, ROTC, the Masons, and his church, Asbury United Methodist Church in Washington, D.C. He talks about the impact of the...
Dates: 2021-06-16
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 34: Asbury United Methodist Church Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Staff Interface | Visit ArchivesSpace.org | v3.4.1 | Send Feedback or Report a Problem