Legacy Keepers: Interview with Georgette Seabrooke Powell

Object Details

Creator
National Visionary Leadership Project
Anacostia Community Museum
Scope and Contents
Through an oral history interview, artist Georgette Seabrooke Powell talks about her extended family, who owned businesses in Charleston, South Carolina, where she was born in 1916. Her family moved to New York City when Powell was six; she describes living in a tenement building, her time as a student at Washington Irving High School and later Cooper Union, and her experiences during the Harlem Renaissance. Powell talks about a few of her paintings, particularly her early work, and the WPA's Federal Art Project, including the mural "Recreation in Harlem." After moving to Washington, D.C., Powell becomes an art therapist and obtains a degree from Howard University. Powell also talks about Operation Heritage, Art in the Park, and P.S. 6. She describes her encounters with racism as a child and then later with her artwork; and explains her greatest accomplishment - raising her family.
Interview. Part of the National Visionary Leadership Project 2003. Dated 20030604.
Date
2003
Extent
1 Video recording (VHS, 1/2")
Type
Archival materials
Video recordings
Oral histories (document genres)
Interviews
Occupation
Artists
Topic
African Americans
African American families
African American artists
Harlem Renaissance
Civic leaders
Racism
Place
Charleston (S.C.)
New York (N.Y.)
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Citation
Legacy Keepers: Interview of Georgette Seabrooke Powell, National Visionary Leadership Project 2003, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Identifier
ACMA.09-005, Item ACMA AV000919
General
Title transcribed from cover page of the video recording's transcript.

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  • National Visionary Leadership Project 2003
    Scope and Contents note
    This collection contains five videotaped oral history interviews conducted in partnership with the National Visionary Leadership Project and the Anacostia Community Museum's Education Department in 2003. Interviewees include Georgette Seabrooke Powell,William Langford,Louise Daniel Hutchinson, Jeannine Clark, and Charles H. Clark.
    Date
    June 4, 2003
    Extent
    0.25 Linear feet (1 box)
    5 Video recordings (5 VHS 1/2" video recordings)
    Provenance
    Co-founded in 2001 by Camille O. Cosby, Ed.D. and Renee Poussaint, The National Visionary Leadership Project (NVLP), a nonprofit, tax-exempt organization, unites generations to create tomorrow's leaders by recording, preserving, and distributing through various media, the wisdom of extraordinary African American elders - Visionaries - who have shaped American history. Some of these elders are nationally recognized leaders, who are interviewed on videotape by NVLP's co-founders and board members. Other Visionary elders, known primarily in their local communities, are selected and interviewed by NVLP college Fellows. This invaluable primary source material is accessible worldwide on the NVLP website, and permanently archived at the Library of Congress, allowing students, scholars and the public to gain a whole new understanding of this country's past, and the lessons to be learned from it. - NVLP website
    Citation
    National Visionary Leadership Project 2003, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
    Type
    Collection descriptions
    Archival materials
    Video recordings
    Oral history
    Interviews
    Topic
    African Americans
    Place
    Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
    Identifier
    ACMA.09-005
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