Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds
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Object Details
- General
- Title transcribed from contents of recording and physical asset.
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Names
- Anacostia Community Museum
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Traveling Exhibition Service
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Topic
- African Americans
- African American women
- Women
- Creator
- Anacostia Neighborhood Museum
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- Black women: achievements against the odds exhibition records
- Black women: achievements against the odds exhibition records / Series ACMA AV03-028: Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds Audiovisual Records
- Biographical / Historical
- Photographs, artifacts, a slide show, and films form the exhibition - Black women: Achievements Against the Odds - that examines the contributions of 113 American black women in such areas as government, education, fine arts, civil rights, medicine, law, and industry. The women represent the world-famous as well as the little-known and include poet Phillis Wheatley, former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Patricia Roberts Harris, educator Nannie Helen Burroughs, the first female editor-in-chief of the Boston University Law Review Clara Burrill Bruce, author Maya Angelou, sculptor Edmonia Lewis, and businesswoman Eartha M.M. White. The exhibition was created and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service; and it was on display at Anacostia Neighborhood Museum from February 8, 1976 - January 2, 1977 and October 21, 1984 - June 30, 1985.
- Extent
- 1 Video recording (U-matic, 3/4")
- Date
- 1986
- Custodial History
- A Prime Cable of Maryland Presentation. Copyright 1986.
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Identifier
- ACMA.03-028, Item ACMA AV000852
- Type
- Archival materials
- Video recordings
- Citation
- Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds, Anacostia Community Museum Archives, Smithsonian Institution.
- Genre/Form
- Video recordings
- Note
- 010025
- Scope and Contents
- In this documentary, profiles of prominent Black Women provide an overview of the roles and contributions of Black Women in the course of historic and human events. Lucy Terry Prince, Phillis Wheatley, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Maya Angelou, Mary S. Kelsey Peake, Charlotte Forten [Grimke], Ida B. Wells Barnett, Rosa Parks, Laura Wheeler Waring, Lois Mailou Jones, Sarah Parker Remond, Jeanne Spurlock, Julia Pearl Hughes [Coleman], Maggie Lena Walker, Dorothy Bolden, Madame C. J. Walker, Abbie Mitchell, Florence Mills, Ruby Dee, Eunice Hunton Carter, Constance Baker Motley, Shirley Chisholm, and Barbara Jordan are among the many Black Women profiled.
- Documentary film. Related to exhibition 'Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds.' Undated.
- Series 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.
- Record ID
- ebl-1554838807492-1554838807500-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0