Narrator provides an overview of abolitionist Frederick Douglass' life, work, and spirit from his birth as a slave in Talbot County, Maryland to his death in Washington, D.C. Douglass' experiences with racial prejudice and segregation as well as his involvement in the Underground Railroad and civil rights movements, including women's rights, are explored. Douglass lived in New Bedford (Mass.), Rochester (N.Y.), the neighborhood of Anacostia in Washington, D.C., and England, where he fled for two years after writing "The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" in 1845. Douglass and his son Frederick Jr. recruited black men for the Civil War while his sons Lewis and Charles joined the 54th Massachusetts Regiment. While championing many reform causes, Douglass worked alongside William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Blanche Kelso Bruce, John Mercer Langston, Francis Cardozo, and May Wright Sewall.
Narration. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. AV002692-1 and AV002692-2: same content. AV002692-1: sound beeps throughout recording. Dated 19731201.
Biographical / Historical:
Frederick Douglass Memorial Home was built between 1855 and 1859 for John Welsh Van Hook, an architect from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in Uniontown (also known as Anacostia). In 1877, Frederick Douglass purchased the home and 9 3/4 acres of land, which he named Cedar Hill. Over several years, Douglass purchased additional land and converted the home into a 21 room mansion. In 1900, Douglass' second wife, Helen Pitts Douglass, urged U.S. Congress to charter the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical Association, which received the property in 1903 upon Helen's death. On September 5, 1962, the Frederick Douglass estate became a part of the National Park Service. Groundbreaking ceremonies for a visitor center were held in September 1980. The visitor center opened to the public in February 1982. Douglass' home and estate became a National Historic Site in 1988 and underwent several restorations between 1922 and 2007.;Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) was born into slavery on Maryland's Eastern Shore but fled north in 1838 to settle in Massachussetts. He soon became an abolitionist in the antislavery movement, and by the mid-1840s his commanding eloquence in offering firsthand testimony to the oppressions of slavery had transformed him into one of the movement's most persuasive spokesmen. Douglass' reforming zeal remained strong all his life. After the Civil War put an end to slavery, he continued to be a leading defender of the rights of African Americans during Reconstruction.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV002692-2
General:
Title transcribed from physical asset.
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Through music, dance, and oral presentation, school children showcase what they learned about their African roots and heritage, slavery in the United States, civil rights, black power, racial discrimination, and achievements by black Americans, including Percy Lavon Julian, Jesse Owens, Dorie Miller, Gwendolyn Brooks, Harriet Tubman, Sidney Poitier, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Shirley Chisholm, Thurgood Marshall, and Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the students recites "What Should I Tell My Children Who are Black?" which was written by Dr. Margaret Taylor Goss Burroughs. At the end, the students pledge "you and I are the adult black citizens of tomorrow . . .," and they state their names and what they are going to be (their future professional goals).
Stage performance. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings Record Group. Undated.
General:
Title transcribed from physical asset.
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At Bethlehem Baptist Church in Anacostia, Stokely Carmichael leads a discussion on ways to organize people. He stresses the responsibility of each person to organize people to achieve goal. He explains the power possible when people are properly organized.
Lecture/Meeting. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. AV003065: part 1. AV003058: part 2. Dated 19771021.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV003058
General:
Title transcribed from physical asset.
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With students during a seminar, Stokely Carmichael discusses principles, ideologies, and tactics of capitalism, socialism, nkrumahism, and imperialism. He talks extensively about race; and socialist and capitalist societies and systems. He also speaks about reform movements versus revolutionary movements; Pan-Africanism; scientific socialism; bringing African Revolution to socialism; the Black Panthers; and the All African People's Revolutionary Party.
Seminar/lecture. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. AV003074: part 1, dated 19721014. AV003090: part 2, dated 19721014. AV003075: #3, undated.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV003090
ACMA AV003075
General:
Title transcribed from physical asset.
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During a lecture to students at Howard University, Stokely Carmichael speaks about the movement of black people toward unity with a clear, common ideology based on science. He stresses black people must put theory into practice - organize and take action. He speaks about the differences between revolutionary and reform movements; Pan-Africanism; the All African People's Revolutionary Party; scientific socialism; nkrumahism; capitalism; and imperialism.
Lecture. Part of ACM Museum Events, PR, and Ceremonies Recordings. Poor picture quality. AV000784: poor sound quality, speech until 001510 (followed by Panorama: Nikki Giovanni and Stokely Carmichael and Panorama: Alyce C. Gullattee, James P. Comer, John Williams). Undated.
Local Numbers:
ACMA AV000784
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Copies made from a photograph album compiled by Robert Burnett that appears to relate to three periods. A few photographs dated around 1910-1912 were likely received from Burnett's family and depict family members, ranchers, tipis, and people gathered for White River Frontier Days. Other photographs show Burnette and friends while he was in high school and then in the US Marine Corps during World War II. Many of the later photographs date around 1961-1964, when Burnette was Executive Secretary of the National Congress of American Indians; some of these depict Burnette and other Native Americans with John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, George McGovern, and Stewart L. Udall.
Biographical/Historical note:
Robert Burnette (1926-1984) was a Native American civil rights leader, Tribal Chair of the Rosebud Sioux, and Executive Secretary of the National Congress of American Indians. He is also the coauthor of The Road to Wounded Knee, published in 1974.
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 92-45
Reproduction Note:
Copy negatives made by Smithsonian Institution, 1990.
Location of Other Archival Materials:
The National Museum of the American Indian Archives holds the National Congress of American Indians Records, 1933-1990.
Official Duties, 'Report of Action Taken at the Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus 17, Ohio, to Prepare Personnel for Implementation of AF Letter 35-3, 11 May 1949 - 2 June 1949, Incl.'
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Collection Citation:
Benjamin O. Davis, Jr. Collection, Acc. 1992.0023, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Joint museum purchase with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Gift of Nion T. McEvoy, Chair of SAAM Commission (2016-2018), and McEvoy's fellow Commissioners in his honor; additional funding provided
