Demonstrations
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Albert Williams Black Lives Matter Panel Collection
Digital Collection
Identifier: DCPL210210
Dates:
2020
Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection
Digital Collection
Identifier: blmf
Dates:
2020 or 2021
Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection
Collection — External hard drive DIG_00030
Identifier: 208
Content Description
Please note: This collection contains strong language, references to police brutality, and violent imagery. The Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Artifact Collection consists of posters, banners, clothing, photographs, and ephemeral objects attached to the Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence (BLM Fence) surrounding Lafayette Square in Washington, D.C, from June 2020 to January 2021. The artifacts were attached to the fence to protest the treatment of Black and Brown communities by police and...
Dates:
2020 or 2021
Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Photograph Collection
Collection — External hard drive DIG_00030
Identifier: 228
Scope and Contents
The Black Lives Matter Memorial Fence Photograph Collection documents the appearance of this temporary but important landmark on the north side of Lafayette Square over two days in January 2021.
Dates:
2021-02 - 2021-04
Black Lives Matter Panels
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2021.006
Dates:
2020-05-25 - 2020-08-10
Coolidge Senior High School Oral History Project Collection
Collection
Identifier: OHP028
Scope and Contents
In 2007, Ingrid Drake coordinated the Coolidge Senior High School Oral History Project, interviewing 25 alumni, staff, teachers, and students of Calvin Coolidge Senior High School. Drake applied for and received a $5,000 grant from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities to obtain equipment and facilitate the interviews. A radio show was produced for WPFW of the final interviews; and bound copies of the interviews to give to the alumni. This collection is comprised of 16 audio CDs (14...
Dates:
2007
Dr. Darrell Clayton Crain Jr. Photograph Collection
Collection — External hard drive DIG_00010
Identifier: P035
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of 270 Kodachrome Ektachrome slides, three empty slide boxes, and one original 8x10 black and white photograph, as well as 275 digital surrogates of all of the analog images donated and several family photographs of Crain and his homes which the Library only received digitally. The photographs document daily life in the Washington, D.C. area, Dr. Crain’s travels around the U.S. and abroad, and important events. Events depicted include the March on Washington for Jobs...
Dates:
1949-1989
March on Washington 50th Anniversary Oral History Project
Digital Collection
Identifier: dcpl_ohp024
Dates:
2013
Poor People’s Campaign Collection
Collection — External hard drive DIG_00018
Identifier: 119
Scope and Contents
The contents of this collection include: correspondence, flyers, memorabilia, newsletters, newspaper clippings, poems, and songs.
Dates:
1968