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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Go-Go Museum and Café Collection

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00030
Identifier: 225
Content Description

The Go-Go Museum & Café and partners collected 11 oral histories, produced two go-go concerts, and organized a major conference on go-go: “Go-Go Preservation Week 2021” in collaboration with the Traditional Arts DC project at Howard University. The Go-Go-Preservation Week panel discussions, concerts, and oral history collections.

Dates: 2021
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Go-Go Music Artificial Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 101
Scope and Contents

This is an artificially created collection of materials related to Go-Go music and the Go-Go music community. Materials include live and studio recordings of Go-Go performances; periodicals and article clippings about Go-Go performers, music, and culture; academic works regarding Go-Go; and ephemera related to Go-Go music and performances.

Dates: 1975 - 2022
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Go-Go (Web) Archive

 Collection
Identifier: dcpl_web0026
Abstract

This collection includes websites covering the history and current events of the Go-Go scene in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 2022
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Francis A. Gregory Genealogical Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 005
Scope and Contents The collection was artificially created by the Library and consists of the Shaed and Baltimore family papers; as well materials regarding Elzie Hoffman. It includes photographs, programs, published books, biographies, letters, certificates, diaries, scrapbooks, clippings, and other family memorabilia. The collection has been divided into series by family. Many of the items are related to Washington, D.C. educational institutions that most of the members of the families attended; Dunbar...
Dates: 1902 - 1975
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Loretta Carter Hanes Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 081
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of correspondence, notes, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, legal records, and legislative materials related to Loretta Carter Hanes’ work with Reading Is Fundamental and the problem with sewage and water pipe breaks in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1971-1990
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Julius Hobson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 001
Scope and Contents The papers primarily document Julius Hobson’s activist and political activities from the early 1960s until his death in 1977. Included are materials from civil rights organizations that he headed, was involved, or helped found. In particular, the collection contains correspondence, internal memoranda, meeting minutes, financial information, newsletters, membership lists, press releases, clippings, and by laws regarding the D.C. Chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Associated...
Dates: 1960-1977
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Charlotte Wesley Holloman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 140
Scope and Contents

The Charlotte Wesley Holloman papers contain classical music scores, sheet music, recordings, news clippings, correspondence, ephemera, art and artifacts, books, concert programs, vinyl LPs, and photographs.

Dates: 1797-2013
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Holloman Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 041
Scope and Contents The papers consist primarily of the correspondence of Reverend Holloman from the 1920s through the 1960s, years in which he served as pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Washington, D.C. Reverend Holloman's handwritten lecture notes and manuscripts of sermons, speeches, and articles are in the collection as well as some records from the Second Baptist church. Files regarding the Holloman's work in the Lott Carey Society, the National Baptist Convention, Eastern Star, Alpha Sigma...
Dates: 1915-1975
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

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

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

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