African Americans
Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:
McKindria Letsinger transcript, 2022-08-21
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.
Marya Annette McQuirter Collection
The Marya Annete McQuirter papers document McQuirter's research on African American history. Documents include research, subject, and organizational files, as well as correspondence, newspaper clippings,memorabilia, photographs, and research materials pertaining to McQuirter's dissertation.
Melvin Deal interview, 2018-05-14
Mia 'Mimi' Evans interview, 2020-12-06
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
Michelle Hamilton interview, 2019-06-28
Michelle Hamilton describes her early life, schooling, education, career, family and her experience as a resident of the Barry Farm Housing project.
Microform Collection
Moretha Johnson interview, 2021-06-12
Morgan Butler interview video, 2022
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.
Mount Zion United Methodist Church Photograph Collection
The collection consists of 44 3”x5” (19 color, 25 B&W) and four 8”x10” (all B&W) prints of the Mount Zion United Methodist Church’s Community House. Most of the images are of the restoration of the Community House and were taken prior to the work being done. There are a few images of the handicap ramp, which was added to the church in 1983. There are no negatives with this collection.
Natalie Hopkinson Go-Go Research Collection
Collection consists of research materials including notes and field recordings, photographs, clippings from periodicals, and ephemera documenting go-go music and culture in the Washington, DC metropolitan area gathered by Hopkinson. The collection also includes material written and published by Hopkinson.