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Meet Me at the Y
YWCA is a housing unit that provides inclusive, affordable housing, especially to African American women. This article details the oral histories of past residents, current board members, community partners, and more.
The Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association: Then and Now
This documentary delves into the history of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association. Utilizing oral history, historical documents, photographs, and intensive research, the film also discusses little-known facts about Frederick…
Soul of the City 2009 Documentary
The 2009 Soul of the City class visited several DC neighborhoods including Georgetown, Anacostia, Capitol Hill, and Chinatown, and produced a documentary film based on their experience. The film includes oral history interviews and footage of the…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Yvette Alexander
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
Working DC
Working DC is a program designed to collect and disseminate stories about the work experience in Washington, DC. Project participants collected 9 interviews and arrayed them on a "GoogleMap". All 8 District Wards were represented by the project.The…
Women in Film and Video: 30 Years of Women Making Films Oral History Interview With Pat Aufderheide
This oral history project documents women who have made significant contribution to film in Washington, DC during the period between 1980 and 2010.
(Disc 1) Pat Aufderheide talks about her introduction to film as a critic for a local newspaper in…
(Disc 1) Pat Aufderheide talks about her introduction to film as a critic for a local newspaper in…
The National Hand Dance Association - History of DC Hand Dance Archival Project - "The Hand Dance Class Explosion"
These transcripts are from an oral history project related to the National Hand Dance Association documentary film, "Hand Dance: a Capitol Swing." The interviews explore the resurgence of hand dance in the 1990s and the establishment of dance classes…
DC Gardeners Oral History Project - Joe Baumgartner
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative interviewed members of Washington, DC's growing urban agriculture community to document the history of growing food in the city.
Baumgartner was raised in Elkton, KY where his family owned a tobacco farm.…
Baumgartner was raised in Elkton, KY where his family owned a tobacco farm.…
DC Gardeners Oral History Project - Michaela Borghese
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative interviewed members of Washington, DC's growing urban agriculture community to document the history of growing food in the city.
Borghese grew up on a farm in her native Austria where she learned to garden and…
Borghese grew up on a farm in her native Austria where she learned to garden and…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Marvin Bowser
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
DC Gardeners Oral History Project - Guy Brandenburg
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative interviewed members of Washington, DC's growing urban agriculture community to document the history of growing food in the city.
Brandenburg was born in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC in 1950, but he…
Brandenburg was born in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC in 1950, but he…
Video Interview for Crummell School Documentary - Andre Brown
During the Summer of 2011 Empower DC conducted a series of video interviews in support of a documentary film on the historic Crummell School in Ivy City, Washington, DC.
This interview was recorded at the Ivy City Reunion.
This interview was recorded at the Ivy City Reunion.
Video Interview for Crummell School Documentary – Charles Brown
During the Summer of 2011 Empower DC conducted a series of video interviews in support of a documentary film on the historic Crummell School in Ivy City, Washington, DC.
The interviewer asks Brown questions about his childhood in Ivy City. Brown…
The interviewer asks Brown questions about his childhood in Ivy City. Brown…
What Makes a Strong DC Community - A Hillcrest Community Civic Association Oral History Project - Interview With Kenneth E. Burke, Jr. and Alice Yvonne Burke
The Hillcrest Community Civic Association initiated this oral history project to answer the question, "What makes a strong DC community?" Narrators were asked if Hillcrest exhibits the characteristics of a strong community and what they believe the…
Capitol View Heritage Project Session 2
Footage from a discussion series at which residents of the Capitol View neighborhood recall the community's history with the guidance of moderators and guest lecturers. The project was conducted in at least two sessions in the Spring and Summer of…
Women in Film and Video: 30 Years of Women Making Films Oral History Interview With Michal Carr
This oral history project documents women who have made significant contributions to film in Washington, DC during the period between 1980 and 2010.
Michal Carr, co-founder of a Washington, DC film production company, talks about her work…
Michal Carr, co-founder of a Washington, DC film production company, talks about her work…
Bonus Army Interview: Greene
In this interview, Charles T. Greene recounts his experience as a 12-year-old bystander at the Bonus Army marches. Greene's firsthand account explores the Bonus Army camp life as its own society with its own laws, schools, city halls, and…
DC Gardeners Oral History Project - Dennis Chestnut
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative interviewed members of Washington, DC's growing urban agriculture community to document the history of growing food in the city.
A native Washingtonian, Chestnut discusses his work with the community gardens in the…
A native Washingtonian, Chestnut discusses his work with the community gardens in the…
Deanwood Oral History Project - A Self Reliant People
This pilot project paired young people and seniors in the Deanwood neighborhood of Washington, DC to conduct oral history interviews which were transcribed, and featured in a documentary film.
The narrators discussed their childhood, career,…
Letitia Woods Brown Lecture 2015
Dr. Elizabeth Clark-Lewis delivers an introductory, biographical lecture for the 42nd Annual DC Historical Studies Conference on the late Prof. Letitia Woods Brown for the occasion of the scholar's 100th birthday. Clark-Lewis describes how Woods…
Voices on 14th Street Oral History Interview With Charles Cassell
Voices on 14th Street is an oral history project that looks at community activism in the Columbia Heights/Greater 14th Street neighborhood of Washington, DC after the 1968 riots that destroyed a significant portion of the housing stock in that area.…
In Search of Common Ground
In Search of Common Ground (A City Lights Success Story) is a documentary of voices, experiences, and images of African-American life in the South and in Washington. The film documents the Great Migration and reveals the common origins of many…
DC Gardeners Oral History Project - Susan Davis
The Neighborhood Farm Initiative interviewed members of Washington, DC's growing urban agriculture community to document the history of growing food in the city.
Davis began gardening at the Rock Creek Park Community Garden soon after arriving in…
Davis began gardening at the Rock Creek Park Community Garden soon after arriving in…
40th Anniversary Project Capitol Hill Arts Workshop
This pamphlet, produced in honor of the Capitol Hill Arts Workshop's 40th Anniversary, explores the history of the organization through oral history interviews with past and present members.
Click here to view the pamphlet.
The "Y" Guys: the story of the first African-American YMCA in the Nation
This film, a history of Washington, DC's 12th Street YMCA, was produced by junior high school students participating in the Anthony Bowen YMCA's after school program. The YMCA group collaborated with the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's outreach…