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Petworth (Washington, D.C.)

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:

Muriel Tillinghast interview, 2021-12-13

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_220_007.mp4
Abstract In this interview, Muriel discusses her childhood and her years as a young woman. Muriel discusses her experiences navigating her K-12 schools. Most notably, Muriel discusses her experience of racism and racial integration at Roosevelt High School. Muriel draws from her experiences and the observations she made of her classmates. Muriel discusses her higher education experiences at Howard University. During this time and after graduating from Roosevelt, Muriel was able to travel for social...
Dates: Other: 2021-12-13
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / Mapping Segregation in Washington D.C. Oral History Project / Series 1: Interviews

Petworth Women’s Club Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 052
Scope and Contents

The collection contains programs, yearbooks, meeting minutes, reports, membership lists, correspondence, and receipts which document the activities of the Petworth Women’s Club.

Dates: 1914-1964; Majority of material found within 1915 - 1955
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library

Ron Majors interview, 2021-11-16

 Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc032_05.mp3
Abstract Ron Majors reflects on his decades working as a bus operator for WMATA (Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority) and the importance of the union for strengthening the rights of workers. Though he joined Metro in 1980, two years after the 1978 Metro wildcat strike, he saw evidence of the strike's lasting legacy regarding labor militancy all around him. Ron talks about what it meant to always be 'strike ready' and how this affected labor relations. He also speaks about his Catholic...
Dates: 2021-11-16
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection / Series 32: 1978 Metro Wildcat Strike / Sub-Series 1: Interviews

Series 10: Oral History of DanceAfrica, D.C., 2018

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc010
Scope and Contents

The Oral History of DanceAfrica, D.C. contains six audio interviews conducted by Sarah Greenbaum and Jonathan Hsu in 2018. Indexes and transcripts are included for all interviews.

Dates: 2018
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection

Series 21: Oral History of DanceAfrica, D.C., 2020

 Series
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc021
Scope and Contents

This series is the second grant for Oral History of DanceAfrica, D.C. DanceAfrica is a celebration of dance forms of the African Diaspora and is held annually in Washington, D.C., New York, New York, and Chicago, Illinois. The festival includes performance, films, master classes, educational programming, and a bazaar. This oral history project features six interviews with members of the DanceAfrica, D.C. elders’ council.

Dates: 2020
Found in: The People's Archive, Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library / DC Oral History Collaborative Collection

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