Oral history interview with George Phillips
Object Details
- General
- Associated documentation, including partial transcripts, for this interview is available in the Anacostia Community Museum Archives. The textual transcripts are not verbatim of the audio recordings.
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Interviewer
- Santos, Dario
- Names
- Phillips, George Wendell
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Brasília (Distrito Federal, Brazil)
- Brazil
- Washington (D.C.)
- Topic
- Associations, institutions, etc.
- Exchange of persons programs
- Interviews
- Interviewer
- Santos, Dario
- Culture
- Brazilians
- See more items in
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. Exhibition Records / Series 3: Oral History Interviews
- Sponsor
- Funding for partial processing of the collection was supported by a grant from the Smithsonian Institution's Collections Care and Preservation Fund (CCPF).
- Extent
- 2 Digital files
- 1 Sound cassette
- Date
- 1993 February 15
- Archival Repository
- Anacostia Community Museum Archives
- Type
- Archival materials
- Digital files
- Sound cassettes
- Citation
- Black Mosaic: Community, Race, and Ethnicity among Black Immigrants in Washington, D. C. exhibition records, Anacostia Community Museum, Smithsonian Institution.
- Collection Rights
- Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
- Note
- The total playing time of interview recording is approximately 50 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- George Phillips, the Executive Director of the D.C. Partners of Brasilia, spoke about his long history of working with people from Latin America, particularly Brazil. He explained D.C. Partners of Brasilia works with people from all over Brazil, but particularly with those from Brasilia, and works to encourage Brazilian-U.S. relations by actively promoting social exchange between Washington, DC and its sister city Brasilia. Note, Phillips is not Brazilian. Phillips spoke about D.C. Partners of Brasilia's projects and partnerships in Brazil and Washington, DC area, the carnival sponsored by D.C. Partners of Brasilia, his perception and understanding of Brazilians, and his trips to Brazil. George Phillips was interviewed by Dario J. Santos at the House of Brazil Club. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise and static. Interviewee's voice can be heard clearly for the most part.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003359-0
- Metadata Usage
- CC0