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African Americans

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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 238 Collections and/or Records:

McKindria Letsinger photo 5, 2022-08-21

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc046_02_image05.jpg
Abstract

McKindria Letsinger is a former award-winning youth D.C. Hand Dancer. She participated in several dance competitions throughout the country. Letsinger shares her ideas for continuing D.C. Hand Dance and engaging a younger generation of hand dancers.

Dates: 2022-08-21
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 46: Let's Talk Hand Dance / Sub-Series 4: Images

McKindria Letsinger photo 6, 2022-08-21

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc046_02_image06.jpg
Abstract

McKindria Letsinger is a former award-winning youth D.C. Hand Dancer. She participated in several dance competitions throughout the country. Letsinger shares her ideas for continuing D.C. Hand Dance and engaging a younger generation of hand dancers.

Dates: 2022-08-21
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 46: Let's Talk Hand Dance / Sub-Series 4: Images

McKindria Letsinger photo 7, 2022-08-21

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc046_02_image07.jpg
Abstract

McKindria Letsinger is a former award-winning youth D.C. Hand Dancer. She participated in several dance competitions throughout the country. Letsinger shares her ideas for continuing D.C. Hand Dance and engaging a younger generation of hand dancers.

Dates: 2022-08-21
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 46: Let's Talk Hand Dance / Sub-Series 4: Images

McKindria Letsinger photo 8, 2022-08-21

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc046_02_image08.jpg
Abstract

McKindria Letsinger is a former award-winning youth D.C. Hand Dancer. She participated in several dance competitions throughout the country. Letsinger shares her ideas for continuing D.C. Hand Dance and engaging a younger generation of hand dancers.

Dates: 2022-08-21
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 46: Let's Talk Hand Dance / Sub-Series 4: Images

McKindria Letsinger transcript, 2022-08-21

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc046_02_tra.pdf
Abstract

McKindria Letsinger is a former award-winning youth D.C. Hand Dancer. She participated in several dance competitions throughout the country. Letsinger shares her ideas for continuing D.C. Hand Dance and engaging a younger generation of hand dancers.

Dates: 2022-08-21
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 46: Let's Talk Hand Dance / Sub-Series 3: Transcripts

Melvin Deal interview, 2018-05-14

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc010
Scope and Contents "Melvin Deal reflects on his work performing, choreographing, managing, and promoting African dance, which he has been involved in for over half a century. He speaks about how when he started dancing it was generally understood that you had to do ballet, if you wanted to be successful. But he was drawn to African dance and decided to follow that desire. At the time, decolonization was happening in Africa. Part of his work was fighting stereotypes about Africa. He reflects that at the time...
Dates: 2018-05-14
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 10: Oral History of DanceAfrica, D.C. / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Mia 'Mimi' Evans interview, 2020-12-06

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc026_05.wav
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This is an individual interview of Mimi Evans in which she discusses being a Black mixologist, mother, and small business owner in the D.C. metropolitan area, and the effects of gentrification, the COVID-19 pandemic and 2020 protests on her personal and professional life

Dates: 2020-12-06
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 26: From Pandemic to Protest: Black Bartenders in Washington, D.C. / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Michelle Hamilton interview, 2019-06-28

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc019
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 2019-06-28
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

Moretha Johnson interview, 2021-06-12

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc034_03.wav
Abstract Moretha Johnson, a lifelong Washingtonian, grew up in a family of singers including her mother. As a child she became involved at Asbury United Methodist Church and went on to attend Sunday school and Methodist Youth Fellowship, sing in different choirs and help lead the Brighter Day and Crocheting for Christ ministries to assist bereaved people and to make crocheted items for babies and unhoused people. She recalled attending the March on Washington and being helped home by a co-worker when...
Dates: 2021-06-12
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

Morgan Butler interview video, 2022

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Identifier: dcpl_237_FeedBack_ButlerMorgan.mp4
Abstract

Butler (she/they) narrates their experiences at Busboys and Poets, first as a child and later as a poet and employee. She explores the cultural role that Busboys has played in DC along with gentrification in the city and how it has impacted arts spaces. Butler describes their understanding of the responsibility that business owners have toward the communities that they serve, in particular DC’s local Black community.

Dates: 2022
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / Feed/Back Oral History Project / Series 1: Interiews

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