Interview with Linda Leaks
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Scope and Contents
- Linda Leaks - co-founder of Empower DC - talked about her passion for limited equity housing cooperatives. She detailed her experiences while organizing and forming housing cooperatives, and the obstacles she and the community overcame in regards to securing housing cooperatives. Leaks talked extensively about housing, including public housing, rental housing, and mixed income communities, in Washington, D.C. She also detailed Empower DC's work with residents in Ivy City.
- Interview. Dated 20110525.
- Date
- 2011
- Extent
- 2 Video recordings (MiniDV)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Interviews
- Topic
- African Americans
- Civic leaders
- Communities
- Housing
- Housing, Cooperative
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- 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.
- Citation
- Interview with Linda Leaks, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.01-007.16, Item ACMA AV005224
Related Content
1 result(s)-
Community and Creativity Project Records
- Biographical / Historical
- Community and Creativity project launched in the summer of 2010 with a survey of art and cultural activities in wards 7 and 8 of Washington, DC. The project staff canvass daycare and senior centers, community centers, churches, and other institutions and organization in the area to ask about the kinds of arts and cultural activities that take place there. Project staff documented selected performances and activities and interviewed participants.
- Date
- 2010-2012
- Extent
- 29 Video recordings (1 archives box)
- Provenance
- Records of Community and Creativity Project were created by the Anacostia Community Museum.
- 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.
- Citation
- Community and Creativity Project Records,2010-2012, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Identifier
- ACMA.01-007.16