Dublin Core
Title
Urban Odyssey: Nannie Helen Burroughs
Subject
Local History
African American Experience
Performance
Feminism
Civil Rights
Description
Nannie H. Burroughs was a prominent African American civil rights activist and a continuing champion for women's rights. Burroughs's long career focused on improving educational opportunities for African-American women, an essential tool for improving black life. The founder of the National Trade and Professional School for Women and Girls in Deanwood in 1909, her legacy lives on in the name of the Nannie Helen Burroughs School in southeast Washington.
Urban Odyssey was a 1991 series produced by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC for DCTV Public Access Television.
Urban Odyssey was a 1991 series produced by the Humanities Council of Washington, DC for DCTV Public Access Television.
Creator
Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Source
Program: Urban Odyssey
Publisher
Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Date
1991
Rights
Copyright 1991 Humanities Council of Washington, DC
Copyright 1991 Howard University Public TV
Format
VHS
Language
English
Type
Moving Image
Identifier
6.P.1991
245
Coverage
Washington, DC
Ward 7
Nannie Helen Burroughs School
Moving Image Item Type Metadata
Original Format
VHS
Duration
00:28:33
Compression
MPEG
Producer
Parkerson, Michelle
Pratt, Bill
Director
Parkerson, Michelle
Pratt, Bill
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