William Brown-Orleans spoke extensively about Fanti people, and their identity, culture, philosophy, values, and language. He told many stories to exemplify what he explained about Fanti culture, including language, marriage, naming of children, expected births, and importance of ancestorial roots. Brown-Orleans also spoke about the Ashanti people, and their culture; and the formation and building membership of a Fanti organization in 1989 to promote the culture and identity of Fanti people.
Brown-Orleans explained white men's arrival in Ghana, and white men's contact with Fanti people and Ashanti people; how Fanti people allowed their culture to be alternated; the relationship between white people and Fanti people, and white people and Ashanti people; and Fanti people embraced the white men and their culture, and coexistence.
Brown-Orleans spoke about why he migrated with his wife and kids to the United States in 1978; attending university in Ghana; being the headmaster of a senior high school in Ghana; visiting Ghana often; writing poems in his dialect, Fanti; repairing family home in Ghana; Ghanaian churches in the Washington, DC area; Fanti performance troupe in Washington, DC; and the work of the Ghanaian Embassy, where he works.
Interview is in English and Fanti (minimal). Digital audio files include white noise and static, and a little sound interference. Interviewee's voice is low volume on occasion, but it is intelligible for the most part.
General:
Associated documentation for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives.
Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
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Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Carrington Lloyd Buddoo, known as Lloyd Buddoo, explained the public school system in Jamaica, including the requirement of purchasing own books, free education from age 7 to 15, and local examinations, as well as details about his personal experience attending school in Jamaica. He discussed saving money and his experience attending high school at the age of 19 and being head boy of the school, and then teaching elementary school, visiting Chicago in the United States, and working at the Department of Statistics before attending Mico College.
Buddoo detailed some of the history of Mico College. After attending Mico College, Buddoo explained he taught high school in Jamaica for one year before returning to the United States to complete a bachelor's degree at Howard University, where he fought to obtain credit for courses he took at Mico College and graduated with honors. He also explained that the courses in Jamaica where more intense than the courses he took at Howard and he completed his courses in a year and half while working full time. After graduation from Howard, Buddoo explained he could not get a job so he decided to be a cab driver, and that he decided to go to law school at Howard University after getting a traffic ticket and being treated unfairly in court.
Buddoo also talked about his family, his children, picking oranges and grapefruits, and growing vegetables in his garden. He explained why he would not return to Jamaica, discrimination in Jamaica, specifically where he lived in Jamaica, living and work conditions in Jamaica, how Jamaicans saved money to immigrate to the United States or England, and that public health and cleanliness are better in Jamaica than in the United States.
Carrington Lloyd Buddoo was interviewed in June 1994. Interview is in English. Buddoo's interview follows the conclusion of Dorothy Baker's interview on ACMA_AV002379_B. Digital audio files include white noise and static; interviewee can be heard clearly for the most part.
General:
Associated documentation, including partial transcripts, for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives. The textual transcripts are not verbatim of the audio recordings.
Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
Collection Restrictions:
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Sponsor:
Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
Illustration: A man sits and ponders whether he should stay or leave. The poster includes a large question mark over the figure. Text above the image, "Me Voy O Me Quedo?"
Local Numbers:
AC0615-0000004.tif (AC Scan)
1997.3100.39 (Museum Cat. No.)
Exhibitions Note:
In the exhibition "Posters from the Division of Community Education (DIVEDCO) of Puerto Rico, 1948-1989," Sept. 17, 2008-Jan. 18, 2009, at the Smithsonian's S. Dillon Ripley Center.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
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Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, purchased through the American Women's History Initiative Acquisitions Pool, administered by the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative; in memory of Catrina Hill
