Marita Golden interview

@ DC Public Library

Description

Oral history interview with Marita Golden, an African-American woman who recounts her childhood in Columbia Heights and Foggy Bottom neighborhoods. She describes working as a journalist for the American University newspaper when she was a freshman there and going to cover the devastation of the U Street Corridor after the riots. Ms. Golden recalls becoming a community activist in the U Street area following the riots. She volunteered for Marion Barry's organization, Pride Inc. and for The Freedom School. She was also in the neighborhood to take classes at Howard University. In the late 1960s, Ms. Golden discovered poetry and was able to get her first poem included in the anthology Today's Negro Voices.Marita Golden is an award-winning novelist, writer, and teacher as well as a co-founder of the Hurston/Wright Foundation, a national organization for African-American writers.DC Public Library, Special Collections, OHP 26 U Street Oral History Project - DC's Cultural Corridor

Type:

Sound

Contributors:

Navies, Kelly, interviewer

Rights:

Publication rights for this interview can be granted by the DC Public LibraryIn Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted;