Oral history
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Mapping Segregation in Washington D.C. Oral History Project
March on Washington 50th Anniversary Oral History Project
Milepost to Self-Government Oral History Project
Milepost to Self-Government Oral History Project
Mount Pleasant Oral History Project
Northern Shaw Striver Historic Survey Oral History Project
In 1993, Jeff Koenreich conducted these oral histories for the Library's Oral History Project. Residents of the Striver Section of the Shaw neighborhood were interviewed. Topics include the history of the neighborhood, childhood, family, segregation, the Civil Rights movement, and the community.
Out of Kenilworth Oral History Project
Radcliffe College Black Women Oral History Project
Between 1976 and 1981 the Schlesinger Library of Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts, conducted over 70 oral history interviews with African-American women, of which the transcripts of 8 D.C. interviews were donated to the D.C. Public Library. Topics include family background, childhood history, family, socioeconomic status, education, influences, accomplishments and the effects of sex and race on their lives. No tapes of these interviews were transferred to the Library.
Saving a Community's Recollections: Takoma Park Oral History Project
In 2001 the Oral History Committee of Historic Takoma received a grant from Montgomery County's Historic Preservation Commission to conduct interviews with three longtime residents of Takoma Park, Maryland. Topics include public schools, World War II, architecture, real estate development, transportation, the African-American community, race relations, churches, and recreation in the neighborhood and metropolitan area. All interviews were conducted Eilene McGuckian.