Object Details
Creator
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Names
Anacostia Community Museum
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
Birney Elementary School
Collection Creator
Anacostia Community Museum
Citation
Birney Elementary School: We Only Just Begun, Record Group AV09-023, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
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.
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General
Title transcribed from physical asset.
Place
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
Washington (D.C.)
United States
Africa
Topic
African Americans
African American schools
Students
African American youth
Youth
African culture
Slavery
Enslaved persons
Civil rights
Civil rights movements
Civil rights leaders
Black power
Race discrimination
African American history
Creator
Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
See more items in
Museum Events, Programs, and Projects, 1967-1989
Extent
1 Video recording (open reel, 1/2 inch)
Date
circa 1970
Custodial History
Copyright holder unknown. Field 110 might be incorrect.
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Identifier
ACMA.09-023, Item ACMA AV003102
Type
Archival materials
Video recordings
Drama
Genre/Form
Video recordings
Drama
Note
010231
Collection Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Some items are not accessible due to obsolete format and playback machinery restrictions. Please contact the archivist at acmarchives@si.edu.
ACMA.09-023_ref517
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ACMA.09-023
ACMA
Record ID
ebl-1568815250523-1568815250651-0