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Collection Name
Mount Pleasant Riot Oral History Project
Title
Arturo Griffiths interview
Handle
http://hdl.handle.net/1961/dcplislandora:42736
Date Created
2018-01-04
Creator/Contributor
Arturo Griffiths, 1949-, interviewee
Scallen, Pat, interviewer
Extent
2:07:21
Note
Arturo Griffiths discusses his childhood in Panama, his family's move to DC, learning English, attending Howard University, his political awakening, DC's latino community, Mayor Barry's relationship with the latino community, the ways in which the 1991 riot affected latinos in Mount Pleasant, and the effects of gentrification in the neighborhood.
Arturo Griffiths is a longtime resident of Mt. Pleasant and community activist. Born in Panama, he attended DC public schools from grade school through high school and studied at Howard University. He is a co-founder of the Latin American Youth Center and has worked in a variety of capacities organizing in the past several decades. Currently he runs Trabajadores Unidos, an organization which supports day laborers in the Washington, DC region.
Neighborhood
Mount Pleasant, Washington, D.C.
City
Washington, D.C.
Subject
Mount Pleasant (Washington, D.C.)
Riots
Gentrification
Race relations
Source
HumanitiesDC, DC Oral History Collaborative
Local identifier
dcpl_dcohc002_02.wav
Rights Information
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-NC/1.0/
In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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