Community activists
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 124 Collections and/or Records:
Frank Smith English index, 2022-09-26
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_02_ind_eng.pdf
Abstract
In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...
Dates:
2022-09-26
Frank Smith English transcript, 2022-09-26
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_02_tra_eng.pdf
Abstract
In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...
Dates:
2022-09-26
Frank Smith interview, 2022-09-26
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_02.mp3
Abstract
In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...
Dates:
2022-09-26
Frank Smith Spanish index, 2022-09-26
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_02_ind_spa.pdf
Abstract
In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...
Dates:
2022-09-26
Frank Smith Spanish transcript, 2022-09-26
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_02_tra_spa.pdf
Abstract
In this interview, Dr. Smith reflects on his arrival in Washington, D.C. in the late 1960s after working for several years as a voting rights organizer in Mississippi during the civil rights movement, as well as how he became a community leader and organizer in Adams Morgan in northwest D.C. He discusses his work as a housing organizer with Black tenants on Seaton Street in Adams Morgan, which led to a larger effort to challenge Perpetual Bank and its redlining policies in Adams Morgan and...
Dates:
2022-09-26
Gibby Thomas interview, 2021-07-02
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc029_02.wav
Abstract
Ms. Thomas discusses growing up in North Brentwood, just outside D.C., her early sense of herself as different and coming into her gender and sexuality, other people treating her as a girl from a young age, the importance of support from her family, how D.C. was the center of things and where she found community with transgender women, sex work, the AIDS epidemic and working as a home health aide, her involvement with gay, transgender and HIV/AIDS organizations including Transgender Health...
Dates:
2021-07-02
Go-Go (Web) Archive
Collection
Identifier: dcpl_web0026
Abstract
This collection includes websites covering the history and current events of the Go-Go scene in Washington, D.C.
Dates:
2022
Howard Croft interview, 2018-07-17
File
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc006_02.wav
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...
Dates:
2018-07-17
Jeremiah Lowery interview, 2021-07-02
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc038_03.mp3
Abstract
Audio of interview with Jeremiah Lowery. In the interview, Lowery discusses growing up visiting his mother in a homeless shelter in D.C. and how his early sense of activism was rooted in wanting to help D.C. residents facing homelessness and to improve unhoused communities' access to services.
Dates:
2021-07-02
Jim Vitarello interview part 1, 2022-05-21
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_03_01.mp3
Abstract
In the first part of his interview, Jim Vitarello talks about his background, his birth in Italy and Catholic upbringing in New York, and how he came to live in Adams Morgan in 1975. He reflects on how Adams Morgan was impacted by the King riots and on the character of the neighborhood in the 1970s. He discusses his involvement in housing policy, including conducting several redlining studies that showed how banks were not lending to low-income families in predominantly Black neighborhoods...
Dates:
2022-05-21