By Frank Leone
HistoryMakers Digital Archive is the nation's largest African American video oral history collection and is now available to DC Public Library card holders!
Through their high-quality primary source content, with fully searchable transcripts, the HistoryMakers Digital Archive provides access to thousands of African American lives. The Archive takes you inside their stories to learn more about their history, organizations, communities and careers, and how their significant contributions shaped American life and culture. Click here to explore the HistoryMakers digital archive.
A search for “Foggy Bottom” reveals 15 short videos, here. You can click on a video to see the entire interview. The videos include several of Colbert King of the Washington Post – you can see our video interview of Mr. King. The collection also includes an interview with former DC City Councilmember Charlene Drew Jarvis whose father, Dr. Charles Richard Drew, discovered a method for long-term storage of blood plasma and organized America's first large-scale blood bank. He grew up on E Street in Foggy Bottom. Other interviews discuss Black churches in Foggy Bottom.
We recently discussed the digital tour of DC Black History Sites. Learning about Foggy Bottom’s past by reviewing these videos is another way to celebrate Black History Month! And learn about our neighbors across Rock Creek with a new documentary on “The Hidden History of Black Georgetown.”
Finally, celebrate Black History Month with other Funkstown posts since 2021, including our interview with Colbert King, Since 1868, West End’s Historic Thaddeus Stevens School, Foggy Bottom’s Rev. Leonard Grimes in the Abolition Hall of Fame, Historic Gem St. Mary’s Episcopal Church Celebrates 157 Years, Kennedy Center Honors Foggy Bottom’s Displaced Residents with “We Remain Here” Banners, Happy ‘West End’ Birthday, Duke Ellington, The Underground Railroad in Foggy Bottom, Slavery in Foggy Bottom, What do the Underground Railroad and the GWU’s President’s House Have in Common?, Foggy Bottom’s Lost African American Churches and Community, and Martha Briggs and her Lost Schools.
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