60 Minutes: Barbara Jordan

Object Details

Scope and Contents: A segment of the television program, 60 Minutes, profiles the life and work of U.S. Representative Barbara Jordan. The news segment covers Jordan growing up and living in the fifth ward of Houston, Texas; challenges of becoming and being an African American woman politician; and how she and other politicians in Congress and Texas worked together.; Interview. Part of Broadcast Programs. Undated.

Topic: African Americans; Politicians; African American politicians; Women politicians; African American women politicians

Citation: 60 Minutes: Barbara Jordan, Record Group 09-037, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

General: Title created by ACMA based on transcription from physical asset and contents of recording.

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Broadcast Programs

Scope and Contents

This collection includes news programs, television shows, and music recorded from local and national radio and television broadcasts as well as prerecorded programs, such as The Negro Texans and Alex Haley Lecture for the Doubleday Lecture Series. Anacostia Community Museum does not hold the copyright of the broadcast programs and prerecorded programs in this collection. Content includes news coverage of Anacostia and Washington, DC events; announcements about and coverage of the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum events; broadcasts of Martin Luther King, Jr's speeches; interviews with civil right leaders; and short documentaries.

Date

circa 1970s

Extent

14 Video recordings (open reel, 1/2 inch)

15 Sound recordings (open reel, 1/4 inch)

Citation

Broadcast Programs, Record Group 09-037, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

Type

Collection descriptions

Archival materials

Video recordings

Sound recordings

Topic

Community museums

Civil rights leaders

Place

Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)

Washington (D.C.)

United States

Identifier

ACMA.09-037