Community activists
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 126 Collections and/or Records:
Marlene Manzo English transcript, 2022-07-25
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc044_03_tra_eng.pdf
Abstract
Marlene Manzo grounds and connects her experience as a new housing cooperative co-owner to her experience as the child of Mexican immigrants living in a trailer park community where neighbors supported each other through hardships and better times. She retraces her transformation from a child of migrant farm workers in Washington state to a first-time-college-bound student, and to D.C. housing cooperative co-owner and leader. She shares the challenges of learning how to lead, manage, and...
Dates:
2022-07-25
Marlene Manzo interview, 2022-07-25
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc044_03.mp4
Abstract
Marlene Manzo grounds and connects her experience as a new housing cooperative co-owner to her experience as the child of Mexican immigrants living in a trailer park community where neighbors supported each other through hardships and better times. She retraces her transformation from a child of migrant farm workers in Washington state to a first-time-college-bound student, and to D.C. housing cooperative co-owner and leader. She shares the challenges of learning how to lead, manage, and...
Dates:
2022-07-25
Marlene Manzo Spanish index, 2022-07-25
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc044_03_ind_spa.pdf
Abstract
Marlene Manzo grounds and connects her experience as a new housing cooperative co-owner to her experience as the child of Mexican immigrants living in a trailer park community where neighbors supported each other through hardships and better times. She retraces her transformation from a child of migrant farm workers in Washington state to a first-time-college-bound student, and to D.C. housing cooperative co-owner and leader. She shares the challenges of learning how to lead, manage, and...
Dates:
2022-07-25
Marlene Manzo Spanish transcript, 2022-07-25
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc044_03_tra_spa.pdf
Abstract
Marlene Manzo grounds and connects her experience as a new housing cooperative co-owner to her experience as the child of Mexican immigrants living in a trailer park community where neighbors supported each other through hardships and better times. She retraces her transformation from a child of migrant farm workers in Washington state to a first-time-college-bound student, and to D.C. housing cooperative co-owner and leader. She shares the challenges of learning how to lead, manage, and...
Dates:
2022-07-25
Michael Tabor interview part 1, 2022-09-12
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_05_01.mp3
Abstract
Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s.
He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...
Dates:
2022-09-12
Michael Tabor interview part 2, 2022-09-12
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_05_02.mp3
Abstract
Activist and farmer Michael Tabor discusses starting his farm and the early creation of the Adams Morgan Farmers Market. He reflects on the changing character of the neighborhood from its early activist and radical roots to visible changes from gentrification over the past several decades. He reminisces about businesses and personalities connected with Adams Morgan history, the role of the farmers market over time, and his own continuing work as a farmer, writer, and activist at the age of...
Dates:
2022-09-12
Michael Tabor part 1 English index, 2022-09-12
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_05_01_ind_eng.pdf
Abstract
Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s.
He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...
Dates:
2022-09-12
Michael Tabor part 1 English transcript, 2022-09-12
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_05_01_tra_eng.pdf
Abstract
Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s.
He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...
Dates:
2022-09-12
Michael Tabor part 1 Spanish index, 2022-09-12
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_05_01_ind_spa.pdf
Abstract
Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s.
He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...
Dates:
2022-09-12
Michael Tabor part 1 Spanish transcript, 2022-09-12
Item
Identifier: dcpl_dcohc049_05_01_tra_spa.pdf
Abstract
Activist and farmer Michael Tabor reflects on his early life leading to his activism in college in the 1950s and his arrival in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1960s as a graduate student at the University of Maryland. He talks about his time as an organizer in Adams Morgan, engaged with the counterculture movement that was centered in the neighborhood in the 1960s.
He began his farm in 1972 and brought his goods to the open lot at 18th and Columbia Road NW, which he advocated in the...
Dates:
2022-09-12