Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation: Interview with Wilma Johnson
Object Details
- Creator
- Brown, Audrey
- American University (Washington, D.C.)
- Scope and Contents
- Interviewed in her home in El Cerrito, CA., Wilma Johnson [born 1931 MS] spoke about her early life, family, and education as well as the individuals who most influenced her. She explained how she identifies herself. Johnson expressed her thoughts on ethnicity and how ethnic identification affected her life; her thoughts on black community, empowerment, independence, and self-determination; and her thoughts on identifying the black community as one group or many different groups. She stated groups/affiliations she belongs to/activities she is involved in, any social activism work, and how she stays in touch with African Americans and the African American community, including publications, websites, other communication/media, conferences, and celebrations/events. She explained how emphasizing African descent in one's appearance relate to social change in America. Johnson talked about the accuracy of African American history and how African American people, particularly African American women, are portrayed. She explained how knowing history influences what is happening now and in the future; where women fit in in terms of passing on history; and what African American women can accomplish personally in their everyday lives to affect change. Johnson described what she would change, what she would build, and what she would eliminate with unlimited power and/or resources.
- Interview. Part of Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation Interviews 1997-1998. Dated 19980422.
- Date
- 1998
- Extent
- 1 Sound recording (audio cassette)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Interviews
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American women
- Women
- Ethnicity
- Social action
- Social change
- Political science
- African American political activists
- Activists
- African American history
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Citation
- Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation: Interview with Wilma Johnson, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-016, Item ACMA AV000207_A
- Local Numbers
- ACMA AV000207_B
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Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation Interviews
- Scope and Contents note
- This is a collection of original audio interviews conducted by Audrey Brown for her 1999 Ph.D. dissertation at American University entitled "Imagining a Nation: Late Twentieth Century African American Women's Participation in cultural Politics and Transformative Social Action."
- Biographical / Historical
- Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation Interviews 1997-1998 is a collection of original audio interviews conducted by Audrey Brown for her 1999 Ph.D. dissertation at American University entitled "Imagining a Nation: Late Twentieth Century African American Women's Participation in Cultural Politics and Transformative Social Action."
- Date
- 1997-1998
- bulk 1998-1998
- Extent
- 0.5 Linear feet (2 boxes)
- 57 Sound recordings (57 audio cassette sound recordings)
- Citation
- Audrey Brown PhD Dissertation Interviews, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Topic
- Political science
- Activism
- African American women
- African Americans
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-016