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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…
Capitol View Heritage Project Session 1
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…
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…
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…
Diggers
The film tells the story of the 100,000 West Indians who were brought to Central America to work on the Panama Canal in the early 1900s. "Diggers" addresses the discrimination and exploitation the workers faced as well as the labor movements they…
Artistically Speaking with Marilou Donahue - City Lights and the DC Writers' Corps
Carmen James Lane of the Humanities Council of Washington, DC, and Kenneth Carroll of the DC Writers' Corps discuss their collaborations on the Council's City Lights program. City Lights was a program that brought educational programming to residents…
The Stone Carvers
This Academy Award-winning documentary captures the artistic and cultural contributions of the stone carvers who worked for decades to complete the Washington National Cathedral. Through a series of informal and formal oral history interviews, the…
Home: The Langston Terrace Dwellings
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The Langston Terrace Dwellings, twenty-five blocks from the Capitol, was the first federally funded housing project in 1937. Project architect Hilyard Robinson was determined to create a decent, attractive development enhanced by natural materials…
The Uprising of '34
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In the midst of the Depression, hundreds of thousands of southern cotton mill workers led a massive but little-known strike, called the General Textile Strike of 1934.
The defiant stance of these workers challenged the system of owner control…
The defiant stance of these workers challenged the system of owner control…
The Grand Generation
Six older Americans - folk artists, a baker, a political activist, and a Chesapeake fisherman - come together in this video to share memories and reveal their philosophies. Although these eclectic Americans enjoy reminiscing about the past, they…
Capturing Memories: A Conversation on DC History
American Women's Resource Center interview with Thelma Fagin-Hyman and Thelma Dale Perkins who are in their senior years engage in a lively conversation about their family background, experience of segregation, and the importance of their enrollment…
Freedom Rides - A Documentary
At a two-day forum at the Thurgood Marshall Center, Joan Browning, a Freedom Rider who grew up in Georgia, 64, and Reginald Green, who was preparing for the ministry at Virginia Union before he joined the Freedom Riders, 68, gathered with two other…
Kenilworth History Celebration
On February 18, 2006, community historian Joe Lapp gathered the community of Kenilworth to discuss the neighborhood's history and to distribute a brochure funded by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC.
At the celebration, Lapp narrated a…
At the celebration, Lapp narrated a…
LeDroit Oral History Account by Lauretta Jackson
This video interview with Lauretta Jackson was recorded in three parts by the Robert and Mary Church Terrell House and LeDroit Park Museum. Ms. Jackson recounts the history of LeDroit Park throughout the time of her occupation there including: her…
In the Shadow of the Capitol: Theater in Segregated Washington
In the Shadow of the Capitol was aimed at preserving the history and memories of the African-American intellectual and professional community in Washington, DC, between the 1922 dedication of the Lincoln Memorial and the 1963 "I Had a Dream" speech…
DC Community Heritage Project Grantee Showcase 2008
The film depicts the 2008 DC Community Heritage Project grantee showcase. The event featured keynote speakers Brian Joyner, David Maloney, Joy Ford Austin, and Patsy Fletcher, and showcased several DCCHP projects from the 2008 grant cycle.
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…
Bonus Army Interview: Oliver
Twin brothers Joseph and Nick Oliver describe their first-hand experience at the march camps and tell the story of their father Antonio Oliverio, a WWI veteran who let the Bel Vernon American Legion to the Bonus Army March in 1932 to petition the…
Bonus Army Interview: Seigle
This interview explores the Bonus Army from the eyes of a 7 year old bystander. Naamen Seigle discusses being attacked by General MacArthur's soldiers during the July 28, 1932 removal of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces from Washington, DC. Seigle's…
Ivy City Neighborhood & Oral History Project Booklet
The Ivy City Neighborhood and Oral History Project began in 2004 when local nonprofit, Empower DC, began working with the community to collect oral histories, photos, and other memorabilia. One of the project's primary goals is to preserve the…
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…