LeDroit Park (Washington, D.C.)
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Antonelli Football Film Collection in Dig DC
Digital Collection
Identifier: dcpl_143
Dates:
1952 - 1954
Felicia Jones interview, 2021-06-28
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc033_02.wav
Abstract
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
Marietta Crichlow and Linda Crichlow White interview, 2014-10-02
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Identifier: dcpl_220_006.mp3
Abstract
In this interview, Marietta discusses her childhood and her years as a young woman, when she lived in her family’s Le Droit Park home while attending Howard University. She also discusses her move to Petworth in 1950 with her husband and daughter Linda. She talks about what the neighborhood was like when they first moved there, before most of the white families moved away, and in later years when she was a member of the Block Club, which met monthly. She and Linda comment on how the...
Dates:
2014-10-02
Rhonda Steward interview, 2021-06-10
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Identifier: dcpl_dcohc029_05.wav
Abstract
Ms. Steward discusses growing up in D.C., mostly in Shaw, her early sense of herself as different and coming into her gender and sexuality, going to clubs and working, the impact of the AIDS epidemic, her involvement with transgender and HIV/AIDS organizations including Transgender Health Empowerment, and the changes in the city.
Dates:
2021-06-10