Downtown (Washington, D.C.)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 22 Collections and/or Records:
Shanice interview, 2021-09-18
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc029_07.wav
Abstract
Ms. Shanice discusses growing up in D.C., in several different neighborhoods, her family, going to high school and coming into herself, going to clubs and sex work, the impact of the AIDS epidemic, the violence transgender women faced and the killing of a close friend, getting involved in non-profit work, and the changes in the city.
Dates:
2021-09-18
Wilhelmina Goff interview, 2021-06-05
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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