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Title: Account of subscriptions toward the Epworth Fund of American University, 1892 July 15
Date: 1892-07-15
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: An account of subscriptions from Chapter # 5338, Epworth League of the Douglas Memorial M.E. Church for the Epworth Fund of American University.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History; Education, Higher -- Washington (D.C.); Epworth League (U.S.) -- History; Douglas Memorial M.E. Church (Washington, D.C.) -- History
Local Identifier: RG1.05.10.07
Type: subscription lists
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.05.10.07
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Alexis Lindsay Interview, October 30, 2013
Date: October 30, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY OF INTERVIEW: In this interview, Claire Davis talks with Alexis Lindsay, the Special Events and Communications Manager at Covenant House Washington. Ms. Lindsay talks about why youth come to Covenant House and the demographics of the homeless youth population in Washington, DC. Ms. Lindsay also reflects on how to end youth homelessness and the types of services that Covenant House Washington provides for youth. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: Covenant House Washington; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; youth homelessness
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1519
Rights statement: The document is freely shared under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Title: Alisa Hill Interview, March 05, 2013
Date: March 05, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: In this interview, Washington, D.C. native Alisa Hill speaks about the phenomenon of homelessness in the city. Alisa shares her personal experiences with homelessness, including her efforts to find shelter and how being homeless has affected her relationships with others. Alisa also discusses her advocacy efforts to bring attention to the issue of homelessness and her outreach with homeless children. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1520
Rights statement: The document is freely shared under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) License.

Title: Black hearings
Date: 1975
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: This flier publicizes a panel called an Advisory Supreme Court of Appeals being hosted by prominent black leaders to hear evidence and testimony of victims and their lawyers in regard to alleged crimes by the United States and state governments against black organizations. The panel took place on February 25, 1975 at the All Souls Church in Washington, D.C. Persons and events depicted on the flier include Dr. Benjamin Chavis, 11 members of the Republic of New Afrika, and the Attica Prison uprising. The panel included Congressman John Conyers, Judge William Booth, Dr. Vincent Harding, Attorney Lenox Hinds, Dr. Aaron Henry, Attorney Etta Kay Hearn, Dr. Charles Cobb, Dr. James Turner, and Rev. David Eaton.
Subject: Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Chavis, Ben, 1948-
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0048
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:70878
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Building proposal, undated
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Request for trustees to pledge $10,000 for Pennsylvania Hall. The Hall of History is completed. The McKinley Hall of Government is in the process of completion.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History; Education, Higher -- Washington (D.C.)
Local Identifier: RG1.04.14.14
Type: proposals
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.04.14.14
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Daniel Hart Interview, October 09, 2013
Date: October 09, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: This a half-hour follow-up interview with Washington, D.C. Hip Hop artist Head Roc also known as Vance Levy. This interview’s content returns to the idea of social and cultural changes in D.C. and its immediate suburbs with a focus on specific cultural landscapes and engagements of people in this time. In it Head Roc, details places in DC that nurtured his own cultural development. He offers a critique of portrayals of the city as dangerous or violent, viewing such notions as stereotypes of the city. He also offers a critique of the educational system that he experienced. The interview concludes with a discussion on gentrification in DC and it possible future effects on the city’s Black cultures.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1528

Title: David Edwards Interview, November 01, 2012
Date: November 01, 2012
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Interview with David Edwards explores what he believes to be the causes of homelessness in Washington, DC and why homelessness continues to be such a persistent issue. Edwards recalls his work history, history as a whistleblower, and history of his own periods of homelessness. Edwards is a self-described advocate-activist and details his plan for reducing homelessness in DC. Edwards is also a poet and novelist, and shares poems and plot lines from his novel. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1529

Title: David Pirtle Interview, November 18, 2013
Date: November 18, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The Homeless Voices Amplification Co-op (HVAC) works to amplify stories of unhoused individuals’ past and present work experiences. Recognizing that unhoused individuals are the most valuable source of knowledge on the realities of their employment, HVAC partners with the unhoused to create space for strategic community reflection as a means to further activism for economic justice. HVAC believes stories have the power to humanize individuals and undermine stigmas and stereotypes in ways statistics cannot. HVAC intends to draw upon the power of these stories to create a powerful, multi-dimensional online platform that can enhance efforts to mobilize the community.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1531

Title: Endorsement of students from Methodist students in Berlin, 1890 May 13
Date: 1890-05-13
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Endorsement of students from Methodist Episcopal church.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History
Local Identifier: RG1.01.05.08
Type: resolutions (administrative records)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.01.05.08
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Eric Sheptock Interview, October 12, 2012
Date: October 12, 2012
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: Eric Sheptock’s interview begins with his pilgrimage from Florida to Washington, DC in 2005 tracing his initial impetus to move through his current advocacy efforts as SHARC (Shelter, Housing and Real Change) chairman. Mr. Sheptock shares his insights on shelters, relationships, affordable housing as well as his personal experience as an advocate for the growing population of unhoused individuals in Washington, DC. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1535

Title: Floor Plan for Hall of Sciences, undated
Date: [date of publication not identified]
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Floor Plan for Hall of Sciences or Hall of Technology.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History
Local Identifier: RG1.04.14.07
Type: floor plans (orthographic projections)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.04.14.07
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Halt the attacks on the Argentinian workers' movement!
Date: 1974
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Flier publicizing a demonstration and picket of Argentine Airlines to end the state of siege and the end of fascist terror to be held on Thursday December 19, 1974 in Washington, D.C. A partial list of sponsors includes African Liberation Support Committee; Baltimore Marxist Group; Chile Anti-Fascist Committee; Common Front for Latin America; D.C. Chile Coalition; Fourth International Chile Committee; Friends of the Filipino People; New American Movement; Rio de la Plata Committee; Socialist Party, U.S.A.; Socialist Workers Party ; United Farmworkers; United State Committee for Justice to Latin American Political Prisoners; Venceremos Brigade; Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; Women's Strike for Peace; Young Socialist Alliance; Young Workers' Liberation League; and Youth Against War and Fascism. The flier also prints a woodcut image of a man being held at gunpoint by soldiers, attributed to Rode Mor.
Subject: Argentina -- History -- 20th century
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0118
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:70969
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: James Shabazz Interview, March 20, 2013
Date: March 20, 2013
Creator: Person responsible unknown; Person responsible unknown
Description: SUMMARY: This is an interview with lifelong D.C. Resident, James Shabazz, whom at the time of the interview was currently homeless. He works as a street vendor during the day and spends nights at the CCNV shelter. The interview touches on the subject of homelessness in the district, development of the downtown business district, decline in street vendors, Shabazz’s personal history, his activism and other subtopics surrounding those subjects. PROJECT’S OBJECTIVES: The interviews conducted as part of the DC Oral History and Social Justice Project record how unhoused residents of the greater DC area view the history of homelessness – how did homelessness become such an entrenched part of the city. The interviews will be used to create critical dialogue among people who are currently unhoused in Washington, DC, and then they may be used to assist future advocacy efforts.
Subject: Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library; DC Oral History and Social Justice Project; homelessness; homelessness advocacy
Country: United States
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/humanitiestruck:1542

Title: Join the African Liberation Day demonstration
Date: 1975
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: A flier promoting the African Liberation Day demonstration on Saturday May 24, 1975 in Washington, D.C. The demonstration goals include supporting the struggles against imperialism in South Africa, the Middle East, and Indochina, jobs at home, lowering the prices of oil, no more monetary support for Israel, no more money to South Africa, support for food stamps and health care, and fight imperialism.
Subject: Demonstrations -- United States; National liberation movements -- Africa; Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Country: United States
Local Identifier: SC_Frazier_F_0051
Type: fliers (printed matter)
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:70882
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Letter from Secretary of the Board of Trustees at Dickinson College to John F. Hurst, 03 July 1866
Date: 1866-07-03
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History
Subject -- Personal Name: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Local Identifier: SC_Hurst_0005
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:77254
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Letter to Bishop McCabe, 1898 October 17
Date: 1898-10-17
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: An incomplete hand written letter to Bishop McCabe from unknown author.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History; Education, Higher -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: McCabe, C. C. (Charles Cardwell), 1836-1906
Local Identifier: RG1.06.08.06
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.06.08.06
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Letter to Dr. Edwards, 1891 October 06
Date: 1891-10-06
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Letter discussing possible strategies for endowments and willingness to meet with Bishop Hurst.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History
Subject -- Personal Name: Hurst, J. F. (John Fletcher), 1834-1903
Local Identifier: RG1.03.03.03
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.03.03.03
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Letter to J.F. Robinson, 1900 September 14
Date: 1900-09-14
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: Letter describing the status of progress of founding American University as of September 14, 1900.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History; Education, Higher -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: Robinson, James Frank
Local Identifier: RG1.04.14.01
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.04.14.01
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Letter to Karl F. Heinzen, 1900 March 01
Date: 1900-03-01
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: A letter to Karl F. Heinzen with instructions for including the necessary signatures on the certificates.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History; Education, Higher -- Washington (D.C.)
Subject -- Personal Name: Heinzen, Karl F.
Local Identifier: RG1.05.11.16
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.05.11.16
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

Title: Letter to Rev. C.H. Leeson, 1900 April 20
Date: 1900-04-20
Creator: Person responsible unknown
Description: A letter asking Rev. C.H. Leeson to sell certificates for American University in his district of Fowler, Indiana.
Subject: American University (Washington, D.C.) -- History; Education, Higher -- Washington (D.C.); Epworth League (U.S.) -- History
Subject -- Personal Name: Leeson, Charles H.
Local Identifier: RG1.05.11.23
Type: correspondence
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/RG1.05.11.23
Rights statement: Reproduction and copyright information regarding this item is available from the American University Library -- Archives and Special Collections.

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