National Park Service

Description

This project entails the development and implementation of an oral history project focused on Meridian Hill Park. The project seeks to elicit, through 10 oral interviews with users and community members, a history of Meridian Park as a place of social contestation, resistance, and creativity as related to (but not limited to) African American Civil Rights movement. This project will also attain interviews pertaining to the community history of the park and its evolution through time. Information from this project will form an oral history archive, inform ongoing ethnographic work at the park, and lend itself for the development of interpretive media.

Who can apply

• Others

Contact

JOHN BECHTOLD <br/>John_Bechtold@nps.gov<br/>
John_Bechtold@nps.gov