Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Hutchinson, Louise Daniel
- Scope and Contents
- Introductory narration for museum exhibit, Evolution of a Community, draws parallel between the greed and ignorance of Europeans enslaving and dehumanizing Africans beginning in 1442, and the racism and inequality of African Americans 500 years later. The museum exhibit examines the social ills - unemployment, feeble health care, starving bodies, poor housing, and deadly drugs - that daily plaque the community of Anacostia.
- Narration. Part of Evolution of a Community Audiovisual Records. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1972
- Extent
- 1 Sound recording (open reel, 1/4 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Narration
- Topic
- African Americans
- Communities
- Neighborhoods
- African American neighborhoods
- Community museums
- Museums and community
- Slavery
- Racism
- Race discrimination
- Segregation
- Unemployment
- Housing
- Starvation
- Drugs
- Medical care
- Social history
- Museum exhibits
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Culture
- African American
- 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
- Prologue to Evolution of a Community Part II, Exhibition Records AV03-040, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-040, Item ACMA AV003284
- General
- Title transcribed from physical asset.
