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A Chronology of American Slavery
Revised January 1, 2000
Holt House Media Coverage
Washington
Post Holt Article, September 13, 1998 - The
Ghosts of Jackson Hill
Washington City Paper, April 3-9, 1998 -
History of Cemetery
WAMU Radio Transcript, Oct. 25, 1997 - Zoo's
Chief of Public Affairs Interviewed
Northwest Current, July 23, 1997 - Holt House
History
InTowner, May 1997 - Zoo Breaking Law
Letters And Transcripts
Freedom
Of Information Act Requests To The Smithsonian
Letter
to the Smithsonion from Eddie Becker - Freedom Of
Information Act Appeal
ANC-3C
Letter to Zoo - Supporting Preservation of Holt
House
Transcript
of a Meeting of Zoo Officials and ANC-1C
Photographs
The
Holt House
Cemetery
Site
Skull
Exhumed From Cemetary near Holt House
Geological
Survey Map Of Holt House Area
Updates
Update
July 21, 1998 - More Desecration of
Cemetery
Update,
July 1, 1998 - Cellar Damage
Update,
April 9,1998
Update,
February 6, 1998
Update,
Summer, 1998 - Congress Cuts Funds For Holt House
Maintenance
Research
Chronology
Award
Chronology
Award
Research
Documents on the Cemetery - From the National
Zoo
Tips
on Researching Slavery in Washington, DC
National
Register of Historic Places - Washington DC Sites
Multimedia
Out of Obscurity
The Struggle To Desegregate America's Libraries
Film available
from California Newsreel.
In 1939, just before World War II broke out, five young men staged a civil
protest to open the Alexandria, Virginia public library to African Americans.
One by one they walked into the library and asked for library cards. When
they were refused, each sat down at a separate table with a book quietly
reading. A library clerk who saw them panicked, yelling, "There are
colored people all over the library". The police were summoned and
the men were arrested. By the time the men left the library a crowd had
gathered outside and a news reporter who had been tipped off to the protest
snapped their picture. A few days later, their story was buried under
the news about Hitler's invasion of Poland. The mastermind behind the
Alexandria library sit-in was Samuel Wilbert Tucker, a 26-year-old local
lawyer who had learned about passive resistance from Howard University
theology professor Howard Thurman. Tucker used the protest to file a lawsuit
to end the exclusion of African Americans from the public library.
------ Producer: Matt Spangler, Co-Directors: Matt Spangler
and Eddie Becker. 40 minutes.
Juneteenth and the History of Slavery Remembered
Radio
Documentary (6 minute mp3 audio file)
Walter Hill, Senior Archivist, National Archives and Records Administration,
questions the legacy and memory of slavery and independent historian,
CR Gibbs provides the background to Juneteenth. Original music by Courtney
Dowe, City of Bones. Based on the writing of Amiri Baraka. Originally
broadcast June 19, 2002 for the Pacifica Radio Network Juneteenth Commemoration
(WPFW-FM, Washington, DC). Produced by Eddie Becker.
Florida Vote and the History of Racial Fraud
Radio
Documentary (4.5 minute mp3 audio file)
Historian, Russell Adams, Howard University, places the Florida vote into
the context of old southern Jim Crow vote fraud. Then historian, CR Gibbs
speaks on the civil rights record (or lack of one), of the state of Florida
and how little Florida has changed since Reconstruction. Original music
by Courtney Dowe. Songs “Walking” and “The Day Will Come”.
Originally broadcast June 19, 2002 for the Pacifica Radio Network Juneteenth
Commemoration (WPFW-FM, Washington, DC) Produced by Eddie Becker
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