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Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 64 Collections and/or Records:

Seng Luangrath interview part 2, 2018-09-25

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc007_02_2.wav
Scope and Contents Seng Luangrath discusses her childhood in Vientiane, Laos, living in a multi-generational home, learning to cook from her grandmother, the impact of the Laotian Civil War and the Vietnam War on her family, attending a French-language school, learning that her family would be escaping Laos but that her sister would remain with her grandmother, the experience of being smuggled across the Laos border into Thailand, life as a refugee in Thailand then the Philippines, attending an English...
Dates: 2018-09-25

Seng Luangrath interview transcript, 2018-09-25

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc007_04_tra.pdf
Scope and Contents Seng Luangrath discusses her childhood in Vientiane, Laos, living in a multi-generational home, learning to cook from her grandmother, the impact of the Laotian Civil War and the Vietnam War on her family, attending a French-language school, learning that her family would be escaping Laos but that her sister would remain with her grandmother, the experience of being smuggled across the Laos border into Thailand, life as a refugee in Thailand then the Philippines, attending an English...
Dates: 2018-09-25

Series 1: Whitman-Walker Health Oral History Project

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc001
Scope and Contents

The Whitman-Walker Health Oral History Collection contains 10 audio interviews of members of the Whitman-Walker community. The interviews were conducted by Hannah Byrne and Jewel Addy in late 2017 and early 2018 to celebrate the 40th Anniversay of Whitman-Walker Health. Transcripts are included for all interviews.

Dates: 2016-

Series 13: Women of the WIRE: Stories of D.C.’s Formerly Incarcerated Women, 2018

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc013
Scope and Contents The Women of the WIRE oral history project contain five video interviews conducted by Kristin Adain in 2018. Transcripts are included for all interviews.In Washington, D.C., only about five percent of those behind bars are women. But a substantial majority of these women are mothers, and many leave small children behind when they are sentenced to years or decades of incarceration. Women’s experiences of incarceration are dramatically different than those of men. Moreover, their...
Dates: 2018

Series 25: Voices of The D.C. Fort Totten Storytellers, 2019

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc025
Abstract

Voices of The D.C. Fort Totten Storytellers interviews Black residents who lived in Fort Totten in the 1950s, when families began to enjoy the equal opportunity of purchasing homes in the community developed by Morris Cafritz.

Dates: 2019

Session 4, 2021-01-21

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Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 2021-01-21

Shawn Henderson interview, 2017-11-27

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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc001_10.wav
Scope and Contents

Shawn Henderson discusses his life in Virginia and Washington, DC, his love for sports, parenthood, his religious upbringing, living with HIV, and his experiences at Whitman-Walker as a patient.

Dates: 2017-11-27

The Hunt Family at Cosby Hunt's college graduation, Undated

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Scope and Contents

A digital image of a photograph of Cosby Hunt with his parents at his college graduation from the University of Georgia. From left to right are Elizabeth R. Hunt ('Betty'), Cosby Hunt, and Isaac C. Hunt Jr. ('Ike'). Cosby discusses the connection between his family history and Real World History at [01:34:52.00].

Dates: Undated

U Street Oral History Project

 Collection — External hard drive DIG_00005
Identifier: OHP026
Content Description

Digital recordings of 20 oral history interviews by DCPL Special Collections Librarian Kelly Navies and related digital documents. 18 of the recordings are about the U Street cultural corridor. All of the U Street interviews have logs and two of them also have transcripts. Digital photographs and other documents were also included in the U Street transfer. There is also an interview with DC author Edward P. Jones, in 2 parts.

Dates: 2014

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