Object Details
- Local Numbers
- AV001440
- Names
- Anacostia National Bank
- Campbell African Methodist Episcopal Church (Washington, D.C.)
- Douglass Hall (Washington, D.C.)
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church (Washington, D.C.)
- Howard family
- Anderson, Stanley J.
- Bradshaw, John
- Dale, John Henry, Jr., 1888-1973
- Jones, Frances Mason, 1916-2002
- Koontz, Wilbur Ledru, 1902-1982
- Qualls, Charles E., 1932-1984
- Collection Creator
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Topic
- African American women
- African Americans
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- exhibit
- See more items in
- Evolution of a Community: 1972 Exhibition Records
- Evolution of a Community: 1972 Exhibition Records / Series 2: Interviews
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Date
- 1970- 1971 November
- Container
- Box 2, Folder 10
- Box 4, Cassette 11
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Audio
- Oral histories (document genres)
- Collection Citation
- Evolution of a Community: 1972 Exhibition Records, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Genre/Form
- Oral histories (document genres)
- Scope and Contents
- Frances Mason Jones, an African American woman born around 1916, talks about what the Anacostia neighborhood was like after she moved there in 1949. She discusses schools and Parent Teach Associations as well as which churches residents attended, such as Campbell AME Church, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, and Anacostia Methodist Church. She recalls geographic boundaries of the neighborhood, and they were segregated. Jones mentions important landmarks, such as Douglass Hall and the Anacostia Bank (now known as Anacostia National Bank). She describes what politics were like in the 1950s in Anacostia as well as the various civic associations in Anacostia, including the Hillsdale Civic Association, Business and Professional Women's League, and Consolidated Parenthood. Jones also speaks about community organizing and leadership in Anacostia, particularly the efforts of John Henry Dale Jr., Rebecca Harris, and Stanley Anderson. She lists other important residents, including the Howard family, Henry Sayles Jr. and his brother Frank Sayles, Dr. Charles Qualls, and Ledru Koontz. She discusses her volunteering and work with Consolidated Parenthood as well as the changes she has seen in community leadership over the last few years, particularly regarding political involvement. She ends the interview talking about how sanitation and the overcrowding of schools are significant issues Anacostia is currently facing. Frances Mason Jones was interviewed by John Bradshaw on December 1, 1970. There is no digital audio file available for this interview; interview transcript and notes are available for this interview.
- Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1698439500629-1698439501139-0
