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Title: Oludae Byrd Interview, October 16, 2021
Date: October 16, 2021
Creator: Byrd, Oludae; Kerr, Dan; Byrd, Oludae; Kerr, Dan
Description: Oludae talks about the design of his poster and his family's trip to the MLK, Jr. Library.
Subject: Miu Eng; art; Chinatown; Asian American history; poster; library; books
Country: United States
Collection: Miu Eng Poster Day 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3210
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Our Haven Park: Karen Abbott Interview, October 19, 2021
Date: October 19, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan
Description: Karen Abbott narrates this diorama set in “Our Haven” park, located on the corner of Illinois and Hamilton St. in Petworth, where unhoused persons slept in the 1960s and 70s. A woman with her belongings in a shopping cart and an inebriated man under a tree occupy the park in this scene.
Subject: dioramas; minature club; park; homeless; petworth
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3109
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Pamela Beardsley Interview, October 4, 2019
Date: October 4, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr; Pamela Beardsley
Description: Former American University student Pamela Beardsley discusses her time on campus. Though she did not graduate in 1969, she was a student starting in 1965 and spent time on campus through the 1970s. She remembers being a part of a small group dedicated to political action and education. She talks about protesting a continuing education program for law enforcement at AU due to increased racialized police violence in the city. Pamela reflects on how Martin Luther King's assasination changed the feeling of DC. She further discusses protests on campus in 1969 and 1970 relating to the US invasion of Cambodia and the shooting at Kent State. She ends by reflecting on the 1970 AU graduation, with a large police presence and anti-war messages everywhere. She later went on to work for the National Anti-War Organization.
Subject: Washington, DC; AU alumni; AU students; 1969; 2019 Golden Eagles Reunion; Continuing Education at AU; Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Cambodia; Activism on American University campus; Anti-war protests; Police harrassment; Police violence; Racist police officers; Kent State shootings (May 4, 1970); National Guard; SCLC (Southern Christian Leadership Conference); SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee); Martin Luther King, Jr., assassination of
Country: United States
Collection: American University 1968-1969: Year of Protest, Year of Reform
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1949
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Part One of Interview with Staughton and Alice Lynd, January 11th, 2017
Date: January 11, 2017
Creator: Kerr, Dan; Murphy, Catherine
Description: The first part of an interview with Staughton and Alice Lynd where they discuss political activism, conscientious objection, loss, LGBT+ issues, and personal influences.
Subject: Oral history, political activism, Staughton Lynd, Alice Lynd, lesbian, gay, conscientous objection
Country: United States
Collection: Interviews with Staughton and Alice Lynd, Janaury 11th, 2017
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4764
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Penn Ave East Neighborhood Interviews Compilation
Date: July 17, 2021
Creator: Tambra Stevenson
Description: Compilation of interview clips with Penn Avenue East residents talking about their neighborhood. Stories were shared with community organizations working to tell the story of Penn Ave SE, as well as the DC Office of Planning.
Subject: oral history; Penn Ave East; Anacostia Skate Park; Francis Gregory Library; Thai Orchid Restaurant; DC Office of Planning; community; interviews; Small Area Plan; Washington, DC
Country: United States
Collection: Ice Cream Truck Listening Tour
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:4034
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Penn Ave East Neighborhood Plan
Date: 2022-06-16; 2022-06-16
Creator: Ben Stokes
Country: United States
Collection: Humanities Truck Community Archive
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Peter Burleigh Interview, September 24, 2021
Date: September 24, 2021
Creator: Peter Burleigh; Audrey Barnett
Description: Audrey Barnett interviews Peter Burleigh. In the virtual interview, Peter starts by describing his time working for the State Department and concurrently coming out in his personal life as gay. He then transitions into discussing his experiences with HIV/AIDS in DC, including his partner's diagnosis as positive and Peter's role as a caregiver. Peter explains that he publicly came out when writing his partner's obituary, making him the first "career person" in the Foreign Service to come out. The conversation then moves to Peter's time as an openly gay FSO and challenges he faced after his partner's death.
Subject: HIV; AIDS; gay and lesbian; Fulbright Grant; Foreign Service; Linda Thomas-Greenfield; United Nations; H.W. Bush Administration; Peace Corps; Jill Strachan; FBI; State Department; Clinton Administration; Reagan Administration; Gay and Lesbian in Foreign Affairs Agencies (GLIFAA); Brian Dalton; Personnel Department; Anthony Fauci; LGBT; Food and Friends; Florida; vaccine; Lesbian and Gay Chorus of Washington; Washington Blade; Iraq Wars; gender roles; African American; Black; white; Meals on Wheels; gay pride
Country: United States
Collection: Taking the Truck OUT!: AIDS and Caregiving Oral Histories
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3251
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Peter Stebbins Interview, November 9, 2019
Date: November 9, 2019
Creator: Dan Kerr; Peter Stebbins
Description: Peter Stebbins, Community Historian and President of the Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation, talks about his traffic box art project for Georgia Avenue Thrive. He discusses his partner, David Jamieson, and their relationships with Earle and Lily Pilgrim, that began in the artist community of Provincetown, MA. He reflects on the ties Lily and Earle had to the neighborhood - Lily grew up in the area and Earle's Carribbean ties mirror the long legacy of Carribbean heritage on Georgia Aveue. Peter discusses how the traffic box art project started with Georgia Avenue Thrive, and talks about the complicated process of creating the art for the boxes. He shares some information about the research he's done on the area and the appreciation he has for the tools provided by the DC Public Library. Peter thinks the overall reception to the traffic box art has been good, and hopes it becomes a city-wide program.
Subject: It's a Small World After All: Art Wraps on Historic Georgia Avenue event (2019); Petworth (Washington, D.C.); Petworth Neighborhood Library; Georgia Avenue (Washington, D.C.); Lily and Earle M. Pilgrim Art Foundation; Earle Montrose Pilgrim (1923–1976); Lily Theresa Touma Pilgrim (1928-2017); David Bethuel Jamieson (1963-1992); DC Public Library; Georgia Avenue Thrive; Caribbean heritage; Corcoran Gallery of Art; Provincetown, MA; Provincetown Art Association
Country: United States
Collection: Petworth Library 2019 - "It’s a Small World After All"
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1974
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Pool Hall: Interview with Karen Abbott, September 15, 2021
Date: September 15, 2021
Creator: Abbott, Karen; Kerr, Dan; Whitehurst, Angie; Whitehurst, Angie; Kerr, Dan; Abbott, Karen
Description: Karen Abbott surmises that this diorama depicts a pool hall in Georgetown where men gathered to play pool, gamble, and drink together. The cards and broken chairs on the floor are evidence of the arguments and brawls that broke out regularly in the pool hall.
Subject: dioramas; pool hall; bar; cards; gambling; georgetown; fight
Country: United States
Collection: Washington's Black History in Miniature: Norma Adkins' Dioramas
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3115
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Rachel Mokriski Interview, September 11, 2021
Date: September 11 2021
Creator: Mokriski, Rachel; Whitehurst, Angie; Mokriski, Rachel; Whitehurst, Angie
Subject: working in dc; AFL-CIO; labor; labor day; musical; lifegaurd, playground, children, school
Country: United States
Collection: Working in D.C.
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3096
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Rebecca Tan Interviews: Interviewer Reflection
Date: November 7, 2021
Creator: Elinor Aspegren
Description: Reflective text by the interviewer, Elinor Aspegren, for the Fall 2021 American University oral history course.
Country: United States
Collection: Rebecca Tan Interviews, October 17 and November 7, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3534
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Regina Chow McPhie Interview, January 26, 2020
Date: January 26, 2020
Creator: Dan Kerr; Regina Chow McPhie
Description: Native Washingtonian Regina Chow McPhie discusses her family history in DC's Chinatown and reflects on the necessity of perserving Chinese heritage in the area. She talks about how her family was involved in Chinatown from its earliest days, and how her grandfather helped start the Lee Family Association. She says that her grandfather and other immigrants were relegated to domestic work, such as the laundry business, due to racial discrimination and a hatred of the Chinese. Regina talks about how Chinatown has significantly diminished. She remembers visiting Chinatown and connecting with thousands of other Chinese in the 60s and 70s, whereas now only about 300 Chinese live in the area. While she admires the DC government's efforts to preserve Chinatown, she thinks they can do more, perhaps with money collected from parking tickets. She says now that Chinatown is struggling to exist. Regina sees a dichotomy between the older and younger generations in terms of the importance of preserving heritage. She views this as extremely important: "if you don't have your heritage, you don't have your history. You don't exist."
Subject: Lunar New Year Festival; Chinese New Year's Day parade; Chinatown (Washington, D.C.); Chinatown (San Francisco, CA); Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; 1882 Foundation; Chinese Americans; Ethnic identity; Chinese identity; Chinese heritage; Chinese culture; Chinese Railroad Workers Descendants Association; Transcontinental Railroad; Racial discrimination; Domestic workDomestic work; Anacostia Community Museum; Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum; Dr. Samir Meghelli; Harry Chow (community activist); Penny Lee (documentary producer); Wah Luck House; Mary E. Surratt Boarding House; Chinese laundries; Chinese-owned businesses; Local businesses; Chinese immigrants; immigrants; Ethnic identity; Chinese identity; Chinese culture; family associations; Lee Family Association; Affordable housing; Gentrification; Urban development
Country: United States
Collection: Lunar New Year Festival 2020
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2038
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Regina Ofori-Antwi interview, October 18, 2021
Date: October 18, 2021
Creator: Renaldie Paul; Regina Ofori-Antwi
Description: Regina Ofori-Antwi’s interview was conducted on October 18th, 2021 over TheirStory. The interview collects information from a young stylist whose formative years were during the Natural Hair Revival Movement. The session explored the traditions and history of Black hair in America. Highlighting the ways hair culture forges community, identity, confidence, and inclusivity throughout people's lives. Regina is a passionate young woman who was not afraid to openly speak on the conditions surrounding Black hair from the external issues like products and the internal issues of self-doubt. Interviews conducted for American University's Fall 2021 Oral History course by Renaldie Paul.
Subject: Afro-textured hair; hair; African-American hair; Black hair; Community; Generation; Self-care
Country: United States
Collection: Regina Ofori-Antwi Interview, October 18,2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3563
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Rick Reinhard Interview: Interviewer Reflection
Date: October 12, 2021
Creator: Evan Michales
Description: Reflective text by the interviewer, Evan Michales, for the Fall 2021 American University oral history course.
Country: United States
Collection: Rick Reinhard Interview, October 12, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3600
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Rick Reinhard Interview, October 12, 2021
Date: 2022-02-25; 2022-02-25
Creator: Rick Reinhard; Evan Michales
Country: United States
Collection: DC Photographers
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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

Title: Rita Moy Interview, January 26, 2020
Date: January 26, 2020
Creator: Jenna Goff; Rita Moy
Description: Native Washingtonian Rita Moy reflects on her history with the Chinese New Year celebration in Chinatown. She remembers coming down to Chinatown for the festival by streetcar as a child, going to family association buildings, receiving "red envelopes" of money gifts, and watching the firecrackers with her siblings from the top floor of buildings. She briefly talks about her father's involvement in Chinatown politics, such as with the Moy Family Association. Rita discusses how she's seen Chinatown evolve: whereas it used to be a tight-knit communtiy of mostly Southern Chinese, an increase in diversity has led to what she sees as good changes. While she says DC Chinese have scattered around the DC area, the Lunar New Year is now "a diverse group celebration."
Subject: Lunar New Year Festival; Chinatown (Washington, D.C.); Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association; 1882 Foundation; Chinese New Year's Day parade; immigrants; Chinese immigrants; family associations; Moy Family Association; On Leong Association; red envelopes (hóng bao); Chinese culture; Chinese heritage; Ethnic identity; Gentrification; Racial diversity
Country: United States
Collection: Lunar New Year Festival 2020
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2039
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Robbie Robinson Interview, October 23, 2020
Date: Sajel Swartz
Creator: Reverend Robbie Robinson; Sajel Swartz
Description: The overall objective is to create a deeper understanding of the Black Lives Matter Movement during the Summer of 2020 through the lens of modern Christian practices and ideals, with the hope of better understanding the motivations of those involved in the Black Lives Matter Movement and to evaluate the connection between religion, politics, and human rights. It should be noted that this interview took place in the year 2020, during the coronavirus pandemic with a remote interview process. The interview took place shortly before a contentious presidential election, and discusses a highly politicized social movement that (as of October 2020) peaked in the Summer of 2020.
Subject: Faith; God; Black Lives Matter; Racism; Family; Community; Parents; Chicago, IL; Union Pier, MI; Church; Pastor; Wheaton Bible College; Mayor Richard M. Daley; Good Mourning America; George Floyd; Protest
Country: United States
Collection: Black Lives Matter and the Christian Faith Oral History Project
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:2499
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Robert Rogers Interview, October 12, 2021
Date: Fall 2021
Creator: Sara Casazza
Description: As a result of the highly contentious nature of the Vietnam War, various attempts have been made to commemorate different viewpoints of the conflict. Some movies display military propaganda and the necessity of intervention, while others condemn U.S. involvement and those who served. The struggle to define the war is further evident through the extreme reactions of both hatred and love for the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, DC. This oral history project seeks to address the ways in which Vietnam veterans have come to understand their service and the Vietnam War’s memory in American culture. This project would benefit an archive as it allows those who study the Vietnam War to learn not just how soldiers felt while serving, but in the years after, an element which has at times been overshadowed by more traditional war stories. Interviews conducted by Sara Casazza for American University's Fall 2021 Oral History Class.
Subject: Vietnam War; Vietnam veterans; military history; popular memory; oral history
Country: United States
Collection: Robert Rogers Interview, October 21, 2021
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:3314
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

Title: Rohin Gosh Interview Image 01
Date: March 20, 2023
Creator: Folsom, Gabriella
Description: Image of Rohin Gosh for the Preserving of the Picket Line project
Subject: Gabriella Folsom, Robin Gosh, Picket Line
Country: United States
Collection: Rohin Gosh Interview
mods_typeOfResource_mt: mixed material

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