Object Details
Interviewee
Shackleton, Polly , 1910-1997
Names
Carver Theater (Washington, DC)
Frederick Douglass Memorial Home
Ladybird Johnson's Beautification Committee
Anderson, Stanley J.
Hutchinson, Louise Daniel (19280603-20141012)
Marsh, Caryl
Ripley, S. Dillon (Sidney Dillon), 1913-2001
Shackleton, Polly , 1910-1997
Collection Creator
Anacostia Community Museum
Collection Citation
ACM 25th Anniversary Oral History Project, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution
Scope and Contents note
Polly Schackleton describes being a part of Ladybird Johnson's Beautification Committee and working with a group of young people in the Anacostia area, which led to her involvement with the Anacostia Neighborhood Museum (now Anacostia Community Museum). She discusses the positive effect the museum had on the neighborhood by providing opportunities for residents and by focusing on local history. She talks about how the museum changed after relocating, by having a much better facility, but also being less accessible to the neighborhood. She also describes the important contributions of John Kinard, Stanley Anderson, Louise Hutchinson, and Zora Martin-Felton.
The interview was recorded on August 2, 1991. The audio quality is clear throughout the recording with some minor background noise.
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Place
Anacostia (Washington, D.C.)
Provenance
Conducted as part of the ACM 25th Anniversary Oral History Project, which includes approximately 100 interviews of residents and influential people of the Anacostia area of Washington, DC.
Interviewee
Shackleton, Polly , 1910-1997
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Sponsor
This project received support from the Smithsonian American Women's History Initiative.
Biographical / Historical
Polly Shackleton (1910-1997) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. She attended Garland Junior College and Simmons College's School for Social Work. She also studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the New School for Social Research. She moved to Washington DC in 1939 and worked on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's presidential campaign. She served as editor for Who's Who in American Art, and American Art Annual. During World War II, she worked as an information specialist and researcher for the Office of War Information. From 1951 to 1962, she worked for the American Institute of Architects. In 1956, she became a delegate to the Democratic National Convention, serving on the platform committee. In 1967, President Johnson appointed her to the newly created unelected DC Council. In 1974, she won the first election for Ward Three, and served from 1975 to 1987. Her efforts helped in the passing of 60 pieces of legislation that became DC law.
Extent
1 Sound cassette
Date
1991 August 2
Container
Box AV 56
Archival Repository
Anacostia Community Museum Archives
Identifier
ACMA.09-034, Item AV001622
Type
Archival materials
Audio
Sound cassettes
Oral histories (document genres)
Genre/Form
Oral histories (document genres)
Restrictions
Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
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Record ID
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