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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 238 Collections and/or Records:

Series 46: Let's Talk Hand Dance, 2022

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc046
Abstract 'Let's Talk Hand Dance' are oral history interviews that capture the evolution of hand dance, the Official Dance of the District of Columbia. Hand Dance has been part of the social fabric of D.C. since the 1950s. Hand Dance is a contemporary swing-style dance indigenous to the communities of D.C. Over the generations, the dance has evolved from the fast-paced rhythms of the big band sounds of the 1950s, to the smooth dance patterns of the 1960s (now called 'old school'), and finally into the...
Dates: 2022
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection

Session 4, 2021-01-21

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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

Session 5, 2021-02-25

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Scope and Contents

This is the fifth session of an oral history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History. In this interview Cosby Hunt discusses his experience working at Center for Inspired Teaching and the creation of the Real World History Program (RWH) in 2014. He also talks about the structure of the program in its first year, school year 2014-2015.

Dates: 2021-02-25
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

Session 6, 2021-03-17

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Scope and Contents

This is the sixth and final session of an oral history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History. In this interview Mr. Hunt discusses the Real World History program and the Real World History Collection at the DC Public Library. He also reflects on what he is most proud of about the class and how the course, in some ways, is connected to his family history.

Dates: 2021-03-17
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

Shawn Henderson interview, 2017-11-27

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc001_10.wav
Scope and Contents

Shawn Henderson discusses his life in Virginia and Washington, DC, his love for sports, parenthood, his religious upbringing, living with HIV, and his experiences at Whitman-Walker as a patient.

Dates: 2017-11-27
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 1: Whitman-Walker Health Oral History Project / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Sheila Crider interview, 2017-11-02

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc004
Scope and Contents Sheila Crider reflects on her life in the arts. She speaks about growing up in Southeast Washington DC and falling in love with reading as a child. And reflects on how living in Washington, DC, and the black intellectual movements of the 1970s helped to share her literary works. Time abroad in the Peace Corps, switching from literary to visual arts while living in France, time as an apprentice in Japan, and jobs that she took early a supplementary income, such as 10 years posing as an model...
Dates: 2017-11-02
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 4: ARTS DC: CETA and the Arts in the District of Columbia 1977 – 1982 / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Shirley Debrow interview, 2016-01-02

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Identifier: rwhc_ohp_2015_011.wav
Scope and Contents

In this oral history interview, Ms. Shirley Debrow discusses her life and experiences moving from North Carolina to Washington, DC. Ms. Debrow discusses her early life in the South, her move to Philadelphia in 1964, and her move to Washington, DC, in 1966. Ms. Debrow also talks about her life in Washington, her career at the DC Department of Parks and Recreation, and her love of travel.

Dates: 2016-01-02
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / Center for Inspired Teaching 'Real World History' Oral History Project / Series 2: 2015-2016 School Year / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Steve Nelson interview, 2017-07-12

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc005
Scope and Contents

In this interview, Steve Nelson discusses how his family saved money to purchase a house in Riggs Park during the period of white flight from the neighborhood. Nelson recalls his experiences in the DC Public School system, including at LaSalle Elementary and Bell Vocational High School. Nelson also recounts a crime resulting in the death of his brother, and discusses how Riggs Park continues to evolve.

Dates: 2017-07-12
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 5: Mapping Segregation in Washington DC: School and Neighborhood Desegregation in Ward 4 / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Sylvia Soumah interview, 2018-05-18

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc010
Scope and Contents In this oral history Sylvia Soumah reflects on her young life growing up in a Cincinnati, Ohio housing project, falling in love with dance, and building her career in dance in Washington, D.C. In Cincinnati she attended a performing arts high school, upon graduation she worked at a German restaurant, until, at age 20, she left for Washington D.C. While waitressing in Adams Morgan, she began dancing, initially dancing mostly modern and jazz. She talks about discovering African styles of dance...
Dates: 2018-05-18
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

Tanisha Murden interview, 2018-01-20

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc013
Scope and Contents This oral history interview was conducted with Tanisha Murden by Kristin Adair in Washington, D.C. Tanisha Murden was born in 1989 in Washington, D.C. She talks about being raised in an unstable household in Southeast D.C. Her relationships strained with both of her parents, she ran away, got involved in the streets, and was in and out of group homes, juvenile facilities, psychiatric institutions, and foster care for much of her childhood. She describes at the age of 18, getting arrested for...
Dates: 2018-01-20
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 13: Women of the WIRE: Stories of D.C.’s Formerly Incarcerated Women / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

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