Oral history interview with Patrick Hylton
Object Details
- General
- Title created by ACMA staff using text written on sound cassette, contents of audio recording, textual transcript, and/or associated archival documentation.
- Names
- Howard University
- Garvey, Marcus, 1887-1940
- Haile Selassie I, Emperor of Ethiopia, 1892-1975
- Hylton, Patrick C.
- Manley, Michael, 1924-1997
- Rodney, Walter (Walter Anthony) (1943-03-23-1980-06-13)
- Shearer, Hugh Lawson
- Collection Creator
- Smithsonian Institution. Anacostia Community Museum
- Place
- Jamaica
- West Indies
- Washington (D.C.)
- United States
- Occupation
- Lawyers
- Topic
- Africans
- Caribbeans
- Caribbean Americans
- Playwrights
- Civil rights movements
- Social history
- Race
- Racism
- Discrimination
- Imperialism
- African diaspora
- Rastafari movement
- Rastafarians
- Violence
- Police
- Reggae music
- Ska (Music)
- Rocksteady (Music)
- Dancehall (Music)
- Music
- Interviews
- Culture
- Jamaicans
- 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
- 3 Digital files
- 2 Sound cassettes
- Date
- circa 1992-1993
- 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 1 hour and 45 minutes.
- Scope and Contents
- Patrick Hylton explained he came to the United States from Jamaica in 1968 to attend Howard University, and how Howard University was a "hub" for the civil rights movement. Hylton described the geography, social and political environment, living conditions, quality of life, race, and racism in Jamaica and the Caribbean. His explanation included how prime minister Hugh Shearer and later prime minister Michael Manley governed the country, the banning of Walter Rodney from the country, demonstrations, and comparisons and contrasts between Jamaica and the United States. He spoke about the effects of colonialism on Africans and people of the African diaspora. Hylton spoke in detail about Marcus Garvey, and the formation and history of the Rastafarian movement, including Haile Selassie, Leonard P. Howell and the Dreadlocksomes, Joseph Nathaniel Hibbert and the Combsomes, Archibald Dunkley, beliefs, police violence against Rastafarians, and the mythical belief of "black heart man", later personified by the Rasta man. He described the violence, discrimination, and oppression Rastafarians experienced; the visit to Ethiopia by a Rastafarian delegation, organized by Norman Manley, to meet Haile Selassie; and Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica. Hylton also spoke about his involvement in the civil rights movement in Jamaica and in the United States; what he witnessed in courtrooms as an attorney; plays and poems he wrote; development and history of reggae, ska, rocksteady and dancehall music; and the evolution of music as a whole. Interview is in English. Digital audio files include white noise and static, and a little background noise; interviewee's voice is soft and difficult to hear at times.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of the materials requires an appointment. Please contact the archivist to make an appointment: ACMarchives@si.edu.
- Record ID
- ebl-1712088000981-1712088003371-1
- Metadata Usage
- CC0