Date is based on dcpl_hic_7491.tif's. Built in 1925 to serve African American students; named after John F. Cook, a pre-civil war educator, activist and Chair of Republican Party; Closed in 2008; Now occupied by Mundo Verde Public Charter School, Front entry, street level view of building entrance facing O Street, including lot plan - Cook School SQ NO. 511. Caption states, '+ Public Schools Elementary Cook. O Sts. betw 4th + 5th Sts, N.W. J.F.Cook School 1868. Report of the Schoolhouse Commission, 1908.'
Shows government and other public buildings pictorially. Bilingual map in English and Spanish. Includes notes and index to points of interest. Alternate title at lower left: Mapa foto-picto?rico de la parte central de Washington. Publisht [sic] in English, Spanish, German and French., Heavy card stock encased in mylar; Deterioration along central fold
Shows locations of licensed bars in relation to public schools in the area of Washington D.C. bounded by New Hampshire and Florida Avenues and 15th Street NE/SE, to the Potomac River Includes text noting numbers of students passing licensed bars daily and exhorts the clean up of the city., Halved and mounted on fabric with minor edge tearing and crumbling; May have been prepared by Georgia Robertson of Washington, D.C. for the National Grand Lodge, International Order of Good Templars
Exterior view of the Truxton Circle (North Capitol Street, NE) and Florida Avenue, NE, elevations of Eckington Presbyterian Church. DC streetcar 273 destination 7TH STREET WHARVES is approaching Truxton Circle on Florida Avenue, NE.
Please note this interview was recorded over a telephone call. Craig Simpson reflects on his life as a labor organizer, with special attention to the 1978 Metro Strike and the nearly three decades working with the labor movement as an employee of the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA). Craig remembers the events between 1974 and 1978 that led to the 1978 Metro wildcat strike in precise detail. While the previous generation of bus drivers was entirely white men, the generation that led the strike was majority Black and included an increasing number of women. Craig speaks about how different generations of drivers came together for the strike. He also talks about his own early political development. While in high school he participated in demonstrations against the war in Vietnam and was active in support of a teachers strike. After working at WMATA, Craig worked for a number of labor unions and progressive organizations. Today he continues support labor struggles in various ways., Craig Simpson was born in Glenmont, Maryland. His family moved to White Oak, Maryland when he was 10 years old. He graduated from Springbrook High School in 1969. He started his activism in high school, at which time he attended Anti-Vietnam War rallies and supported a teachers strike. Craig attended University of Maryland and left during his junior year to peruse full time employment. He joined Metrobus in 1974, soon after he joined, he participated in his first wildcat strike. For the decades that followed Craig remained active in the union, organizing.
In this 3-part interview, writer and former journalist David E. Nicholson discusses growing up in Bloomingdale, his experience in DC Public Schools and as part of a small group of Black students who integrated Sidwell Friends School, and his family's involvement with St. George's Episcopal Church., David Nicholson was born in 1951 in Washington, D.C. His family lived in Jamaica, his father’s home, until 1960, when his mother returned to D.C. with her children and moved in with her parents in Bloomingdale. He attended the local public elementary school, then Jefferson Junior High, and Sidwell Friends for high school. Nicholson worked for the Washington Post for 13 years before resigning to write and take care of the family household.
Report of Schoolhouse Commission, 1908, Picture of school buiding. Street scene with young trees along the street. Picture includes a footnote of the name of the school, the city (Washington, DC) and A.P. Clark Jr building architect.
View of Truxton Circle (North Capitol Street) looking south from Lincoln Road, NE. The Eckington Presbyterian Church sits on the left across from the Truxton Fountain, around which several boys sit. Two girls approach the fountain with one of them looking back at the photographer. An automobile is parked in front of the corner houses in the 1600 block of Lincoln Road, NE., Number in title was assigned by Willard Ross
This oral history interview was conducted with Saundra Sanders by Kristin Adair in Washington, D.C. Saundra Sanders was born in 1962 in Washington, D.C. She talks about being raised at 19th and Maryland Ave NE. She gave birth to her only child, a son, just after her graduation from Dunbar Senior High School in 1980. She discusses how she became involved in drug use and criminal activity. In 1984, she was incarcerated for the first time, serving six years. She talks about how she came to spend a total of 20 years cycling in and out of the judicial system due to addiction. Saundra has been clean since 2004 and her last incarceration ended on July 5, 2005. She was released from parole supervision in February 2008. Her adult son has also spent time in the judicial system. Saundra shares how she dedicated her life to giving back to those that share her lived experience, including as a founding member of the Women of the WIRE., Born in Washington, D.C., Saundra Sanders is a founding member of Women Involved in Reentry Efforts (WIRE). She was born and raised in Washington, D.C., where she is currently works with a wide range of programs dedicated to improving the lives of people who suffer from narcotics dependencies and to aid formerly incarcerated women with their re-entry process. Having struggled with addition and spent time incarcerated herself, her life is now in dedicated to helping those who currently struggle with these issues.
Ruth Scarbrough discusses her life as a native Washingtonian transplanted as a teenager in Prince George’s County, Maryland. She reflects on growing up in pre-gentrified northwest and northeast Washington, D.C., the 1968 riots, living in non-diverse communities in Oklahoma, transcribing the Cassius Clay v. United States court case, pursuing career goals without the prerequisite education, and rising to career success in the federal government. She also speaks about raising boys as a single mom, being a servant leader in Asbury United Methodist Church in D.C., COVID experiences, reactions to the George Floyd slaying, the Proud Boys, the Black Lives Matter movement in Washington, D.C., and the challenges faced by the Black urban church particularly in relation to youth., Born in 1948, Ruth Scarbrough is a native Washingtonian who attended D.C. public schools until moving with her family to Prince George’s County, Maryland, after a year at Dunbar High School in northwest Washington. Starting out with the federal government at the level of GS-2 (employed as a dictating machine transcriber), she retired in 2003 as a GS-14, having developed a career in employee relations. Ms. Scarbrough then pursued her dream of nurturing others in the field of health care, joining a pediatric practice, not as the nurse she had hoped to be but still fulfilling her dream. As a military spouse, she lived in Texas and Oklahoma in the late 1960s until returning to the Washington area, ultimately becoming a single mom who raised two successful men in Prince George’s County. She can be found on Asbury’s YouTube Channel as Miss Ruth, Asbury’s iconic children’s messenger.
