Stanton Elementary School: Black History Week
Object Details
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Scope and Contents
- In a dramatic performance, Stanton Elementary School students profile Crispus Attucks, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, James Beckwourth, York (scout for Lewis and Clark Expedition), Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., Colonel Charles Young, Marian Anderson, Billie Holiday, Leontyne Price, Sidney Poitier, Katherine Dunham, Jan Matzeliger, Daniel Hale Williams, Charles Drew, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Charles White, Thurgood Marshall, Malcolm X, Ralph Bunche, Mary Jane McLeod, Booker T. Washington, Jesse Owens, Wilma Rudolph, Joe Louis, Tim Brown, Leon Sullivan, Henry Thacker Burleigh, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and Martin Luther King. Includes recitation of poems by Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar; and dance performances between narrative segments.
- Performance - dance and skits. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Dated 19730418
- Date
- 1973
- Extent
- 1 Video recording (open reel, 1/2 inch)
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Drama
- Topic
- African Americans
- Schools
- Students
- Blacks -- History
- Dance
- Poetry
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Culture
- African American
- Citation
- Stanton Elementary School: Black History Week, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023, Item ACMA AV003272
- General
- Title transcribed from physical asset.
Related Content
1 result(s)-
Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989
- Scope and Contents note
- This collection contains video and audio recordings of events, talks, and ceremonies hosted at or by the Anacostia Community Museum. It also contains audiovisual PR materials for the museum and its events. The collection includes recordings of a wide array of events, including the opening of the Anacostia Community Museum, award and dedication ceremonies, and documentation of on- and off-site events and talks, such as recordings of lectures and sermons delivered by founding Museum Director John Kinard.
- Date
- 1967-1989
- Extent
- 12 Linear feet
- 392 Sound recordings (50 open reel 1/4" sound recordings ; 5 microcassette sound recordings ; 337 audio cassette sound recordings)
- 266 Video recordings (1 Super 8 film reel ; 152 open reel 1/2" video recordings ; 3 U-matic 3/4" video recordings ; 110 VHS 1/2" video recordings)
- Citation
- Anacostia Community Museum Programs and Projects, 1967-1989, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Type
- Collection descriptions
- Archival materials
- Sound recordings
- Video recordings
- Museum records
- Place
- Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
- Culture
- African American
- Identifier
- ACMA.09-023
- General
- Many of the video recordings originally recorded onto 1/2" open reel were transferred to VHS in 1990.