Community activists
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 109 Collections and/or Records:
Faith Wheeler interview part 2, 2021-10-30
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Identifier: dcpl_220_003_02.wav
Abstract
In this interview, Faith Wheeler discusses how she came to live in DC and what attracted her to Takoma – specifically that it was a mostly Black, integrated, and friendly community where the neighbors looked out for one another. She talks about some of her longtime neighbors and the work of Neighbors, Inc., which she became involved with. She discusses her daughter’s schooling and the decision to send her to Sidwell Friends rather than Takoma Elementary School. She comments on her daughter’s...
Dates:
2021-10-30
Felicia Jones interview, 2021-06-28
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc033_02.wav
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This is an interview with a current Edgewood/Brookland Family Support Collaborative (E/BFSC) employee who has been with the organization since its inception in the late 1990s. Ms. Jones discusses her upbringing in Washington, D.C., subsequent move to North Carolina, and return to D.C. where she eventually joined the E/BFSC.
Dates:
2021-06-28
Frank Smith English index, 2022-09-26
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Howard Croft interview, 2018-07-17
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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
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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