African Americans -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Center For Applied Linguistics Negro American Dialect Project Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: GTM-821215
Scope and Contents
Records of the Center For Applied Linguistics Negro American Dialect Project, including: teaching materials; interviews with Black children from Washington, DC (open reel recordings and transcripts); and demographic information on the participants in the study.
Dates:
1965 - 1970
Edward I. Devitt, SJ Papers
Collection
Identifier: GTM-000007
Scope and Contents
The Edward I. Devitt, SJ Papers contain diaries, sermons, correspondence, manuscripts, and miscellaneous material. Of note are his accounts of early post-war social and political events in Washington, DC (box 1 folders 1-2), which often focus on the Black population of the area. Within his near-daily diaries he describes the assassination and funeral of Abraham Lincoln; post-war legislation such as the Freedmen's Bureau Bill; anniversary celebrations of emancipation in the District; and the...
Dates:
1854 - 1920