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Title: Karen Wilson-Ama'Echefu Interview, October 17, 2020
Date: October 17, 2020
Creator: Karen Wilson-Ama'Echefu; Sajel Swartz
Description: Karen Wilson-Ama'Echefu explains that her friend invited her to the Indigenous Peoples Day event as a singer with the Black Workers Center Chorus. She has not had any formal involvement with the American Indian Movement, but in her work as a historian of African Diaspora, she has found similarities and connections between Native American and African peoples and believes her grandmother was Cherokee. She speaks a bit about the change from Columbus Day to Indigenous Peoples Day, saying that Columbus had no right to be celebrated. She also notes the parallel between the duality of Malcolm X/Meridian Hill park and Columbus/Indigenous Peoples Day. She ends the interview by performing her spoken word piece, "Baby Get Out and Vote."
Subject: Black Workers Center Chorus; Lucy Murphy; historian; Ojibwe; Cherokee; family; Malcolm X Park; Meridian Hill Park; Columbus Day; Indigenous Peoples Day; Christopher Columbus; spoken word; African American; Indigenous
Country: United States
Collection: Indigenous Peoples' Day 2020
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2338
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Oral History with Staughton and Alice Lynd, January 12th, 2017, Part Three
Date: January 12, 2017
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Lynd, Staughton; Lynd, Alice; Murphy, Catherine
Description: Dan Kerr interviewing Alice and Staughton Lynd on history, historians, the roles of a historian, oral history, their thoughts on and work with unions and related to unions, their thoughs on union leader John Sergeant, their book Rank-and-File, Vietnam.
Subject: History, historian, role of a historian, John Sergeant, oral history, union, Rank-and-File, Vietnam
Country: United States
Collection: Staughton and Alice Lynd
mods_typeOfResource_mt: software, multimedia

Title: Rick Reinhard Interview, October 12, 2021
Date: October 12, 2021
Creator: Rick Reinhard; Evan Michales
Description: In this interview, Rick Reinhard discusses the path that led to his photographic career as well as the many important experiences that he has had throughout that career. Additionally, he discusses his involvement in the neighborhood of Mount Pleasant and the changes that Mount Pleasant and DC has gone through throughout his life, highlighting events like the 1991 Mount Pleasant Uprising.
Subject: Bancroft; Boston, MA; Cardozo High School; Covid-19; El Salvador; gentrification; Honduras; Impact Visuals; La Esquina; Mary Ellen Mark; Missouri Photo Journalism Workshop; Mount Pleasant, DC; Mount Pleasant Uprising, 1991; Mount Pleasant Uprising; Mount Pleasant Village; Peace Corps; photography; teaching; Washington, DC; Washington Historian
Country: United States
Collection: Rick Reinhard Interview, October 12, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3601
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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