Object Details
- Local Numbers
- AV002903
- Names
- Bethlehem Baptist Church (1872-) (Washington, D.C.)
- Frederick Douglass Memorial Home
- Southeast Neighborhood House (Washington, D.C.)
- Horn, Etta, 1928 – 2001
- Jones, Theresa
- Kidd, Mary, 20th century (active)
- Martin-Felton, Zora
- Collection Creator
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Canada
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Topic
- Community Organizations
- Police-community relations
- 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).
- Extent
- 1 Sound cassette ((1 sound cassette (00:54:14)))
- 1 Digital file ((1 data disk DVD-R digital, 24-bit 96kHz WAV. )))
- 1 Sound disc ((1 sound disk CD-R (00:54:14). digital, 16-bit 44.1 KhZ))
- Date
- 1970- 1971 March 19
- 2007 September 14
- Container
- Box 2, Folder 24
- Box 4, Cassette 10
- Box 5, Disk 10
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Audio
- Sound cassettes
- Digital files
- Sound discs
- 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 note
- Mary Kidd, a white woman, discusses her life in Anacostia after she moved to the neighborhood from Canada in 1962. She talks about education, particularly public schooling in Canada; the common occupations in the neighborhood, such as laborers and clerks for the government; recreation, including basketball at local parks and nearby swimming pools; closeknit family structures and female-led households; and churches residents attended, such as Bethlehem Baptist Church and Faith Presbyterian Church. She also goes in depth about the racial tension in the neighborhood, recalling specific incidents over the last 8 years. She speaks about the Southeast Neighborhood House and the Southeast Neighborhood Action Board, where she got to know community leaders, such as James Coates, Etta Horn, Stanley Anderson, and Theresa Jones. Other topics of discussion include Frederick Douglass Home, the Police Advisory Council, and other people to interview, such as Zora Martin Felton and William Raspberry. She ends the interview talking about the numerous current pressing problems of the neighborhood today: overcrowding in schools, the police force, inadequate housing and welfare programs, the pervasiveness of drugs, and the lack of proper sanitation and public transportation. Mary Kidd was interviewed on December 12, 1970, by an unnamed volunteer or staff member at the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (now the Anacostia Community Museum). Digital audio files include white noise and static; interviewee can be heard clearly for most parts.
- Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1698440400305-1698440401030-1
