Broadcast about Frederick Douglass

Object Details

Scope and Contents: Mention of Frederick Douglass as "father of Civil Rights." A man talks about his experience teaching and states "there are no labels, that's what I've been talking about in schools . . . I'm tired of the people who did go to these children, who have destroyed their minds, who have said they love them, who have charged them to tell them how to hate."; Clip of broadcast recording. Part of Broadcast Programs. Broadcast from 002022-002122 [also on recording: Benjamin Banneker Park Dedication]. Dated 19711124.

Topic: African Americans; Civil rights leaders; Education; Students; Children

Citation: Broadcast about Frederick Douglass, Record Group 09-037, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.

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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