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A digital image of a photograph of Cosby Hunt teaching at Bell Multicultural High School in the early 2000s.

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A digital image of a photograph of Cosby Hunt with some of his students at Bell Multicultural High School in 1998.

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In this interview, Fannie Robinson and her daughter Nadine Lockard discuss moving into a predominantly white neighborhood in Washington, D.C., attending an interracial church, and Lockard's experience in the D.C. school system. Nadine also speaks about becoming a special education teacher in the District. Robinson explains working in school lunch rooms and at the Marriott Hadsa. Robinson describes her husbands and boyfriends.

Scope and Contents Howard Croft discusses his childhood in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, attending Duquesne University and Columbia University, moving to Washington, D.C., involvement with anti-poverty groups and community organizing, his career as a professor at Federal City College (now the University of the Distoric of Columbia), his innovative and expereiment approach to education, his work with the Lorton Prison College Program, his work with faculty and city-wide unioniziation, and his work with the Service...

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A digital image of a photograph of Cosby Hunt teaching a Real World History class outside of Cardozo High School. After five years at Cardozo (School year 2014-2015 through 2018-2019), the Real World History program moved to Thurgood Marshall Academy in the fall of 2019.

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A digital image of a group photo of the 2019-2020 cohort of Real World History sitting in front of Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter School, where the class was taught. Cosby Hunt discusses teaching Real World History and teaching full-time at TMA during the 2019-2020 school year at [01:04:37.08].

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This is the fourth session of a life history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History. In this interview Cosby Hunt discusses returning to Washington, D.C., after finishing graduate school at the University of Georgia, his teaching career at Bell Multicultural High School (1997-2010), and his family life, including how he met his wife and how they named their two sons.

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This is the fifth session of an oral history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History. In this interview Cosby Hunt discusses his experience working at Center for Inspired Teaching and the creation of the Real World History Program (RWH) in 2014. He also talks about the structure of the program in its first year, school year 2014-2015.

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This is the sixth and final session of an oral history interview with Cosby Hunt, a career educator, native Washingtonian, and creator of Real World History. In this interview Mr. Hunt discusses the Real World History program and the Real World History Collection at the DC Public Library. He also reflects on what he is most proud of about the class and how the course, in some ways, is connected to his family history.