Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Hutchinson, Louise Daniel
- Scope and Contents
- Historian Louise Daniel Hutchinson leads tour of museum exhibit Evolution of a Community. The tour includes four stops: Douglass Hall (black shopping center), Old Birney School, a black home, and a black church. Prior to the tour, Hutchinson provides a history of Anacostia from its earliest beginnings when the Nacotchtank Indians, part of the Algonquian family, lived on the land now known as Anacostia until General Howard bought land, Barry Farms, to break up into lots to sell to free blacks through the Freedman's Bureau. During the tour, Hutchinson describes employment in the 1920s; segregation in schools, businesses, and theaters; the clearing of Tent/Shack City, where veterans lived, with tear gas and fire under the direction of Douglass MacArthur, George Patton, and Dwight Eisenhower in 1932; home life and items found in a black home in the 1920s; and the importance of the church to the spiritual and social lives of black people.
- Tour of exhibit. Part of Evolution of a Community Audiovisual Records. Video recording quality: image drop out and skips in recording. Undated.
- Date
- circa 1972
- Extent
- 1 Video recording (open reel, 1/2 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Topic
- African Americans
- Communities
- Neighborhoods
- African American neighborhoods
- Employment
- Business enterprises
- African American business enterprises
- Schools
- Segregation
- Churches
- African American churches
- Housing
- Veterans
- Algonquian Indians
- Nacotchtank Indians
- Social history
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Barry Farms (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
- Evolution of a Community: Oral History of Anacostia, Exhibition Records AV03-040, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-040, Item ACMA AV003047
- General
- Title transcribed from physical asset (Evolution of a Community) and contents of video recording (tour of the exhibit).
