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African Americans

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 323 Collections and/or Records:

Warren E. Washington photo 3, 2021-06-29

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc045_06_image03.jpg
Abstract

Warren E. Washington is professionally known as DJ Disco Bird. Washington has played music for dancers over four decades throughout the D.C. area. Washington's story begins with how he began his career to how he developed into the deejay that many know him to be today. More importantly, Washington highlights the impact time, music, and technology have had on Hand Dance, as well as other social dances.

Dates: 2021-06-29

Warren E. Washington photo 4, 2021-06-29

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc045_06_image04.jpg
Abstract

Warren E. Washington is professionally known as DJ Disco Bird. Washington has played music for dancers over four decades throughout the D.C. area. Washington's story begins with how he began his career to how he developed into the deejay that many know him to be today. More importantly, Washington highlights the impact time, music, and technology have had on Hand Dance, as well as other social dances.

Dates: 2021-06-29

Warren E. Washington photo 5, 2021-06-29

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc045_06_image05.jpg
Abstract

Warren E. Washington is professionally known as DJ Disco Bird. Washington has played music for dancers over four decades throughout the D.C. area. Washington's story begins with how he began his career to how he developed into the deejay that many know him to be today. More importantly, Washington highlights the impact time, music, and technology have had on Hand Dance, as well as other social dances.

Dates: 2021-06-29

Warren E. Washington transcript, 2021-06-29

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc045_06_tra.pdf
Abstract

Warren E. Washington is professionally known as DJ Disco Bird. Washington has played music for dancers over four decades throughout the D.C. area. Washington's story begins with how he began his career to how he developed into the deejay that many know him to be today. More importantly, Washington highlights the impact time, music, and technology have had on Hand Dance, as well as other social dances.

Dates: 2021-06-29

Wes Morrison interview, 2022-12-28

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Identifier: rwhc_ohp_2022_009.wav
Abstract In this oral history interview, Mr. Wes Morrison discusses his life and experiences moving from Durham, North Carolina, to Washington, D.C., in 1959. The interview begins with a discussion of Mr. Morrison’s early life in Durham. Mr. Morrison talks about his grandmother and aunt, who raised him, and the Brookstown community in which they lived. He also shares memories of his upbringing and educational experiences in Durham and discusses racial segregation and race relations in the city. Mr....
Dates: Other: 2022-12-28

Wilhelmina Goff interview, 2021-06-05

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc034_01.wav
Abstract Wilhelmina Goff describes growing up in segregated Columbia, South Carolina, where her father became one of the first Black men to register to vote. After experiencing segregation on buses in Columbia, she becomes involved in the Morgan State College student sit-in movement that desegregated stores, lunch counters and a movie theater in Baltimore. She starts her career as an educator in Ohio, where she also served as the Midwest regional director of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. She...
Dates: 2021-06-05

Ethel James Williams Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 142
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of annual reports, correspondence, publications, and ephemera pertaining to Williams’ work with the D.C. Commission for Women and the Southeast Neighborhood House. Significant items include the dissertation “African American Women in Social Reform, Welfare, and Activism: Southeast Settlement House, Washington, DC 1950-1970” by Stephanie Yvette Felix; the event program for Ethel James Williams Day; and DC Commission for Women annual reports.

Dates: Unknown; Majority of material found within 1984 - 1991

Wilson, J. Finley

 Unprocessed Material — Box 1
Identifier: 2020-012
Women in the Life in Dig DC
Women in the Life in Dig DC

Women in the Life

 Digital Collection
Identifier: dcpl_witla

H.D. Woodson and Metropolitan A.M.E. Church Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 093
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of materials found in the former home of Howard D. Woodson, including personal documents from his time in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and items from when he served as the superintendent of Sunday school at the Metropolitan A. M. E. Church in Washington, D.C. Example materials include a commencement program, treasurer reports, a tax levy, monthly reports, class lists, teaching aides, annual reports, construction quotes and contracts, invoices, and speeches.

Dates: 1852-1913