This episode of the Asbury UMC DC Oral Histories podcast features Bill Johnson, former D.C. Department of Environmental Services director.

Highlights: One-room schoolhouse during Depression, March on Washington, riots aftermath, mail carrier, Asbury lay leader, Mayor Marion Barry’s cabinet.

This podcast was made possible by a grant from the DC Oral History Collaborative, a partnership of HumanitiesDC, Historical Society of DC, and the DC Public Library.

Host: Kelvin Childs
Interviewer: Adelle Banks
Editor/Producer: Adelle Banks
Music: “This Little Light of Mine” performed by E’s Jammy Jams

Asbury United Methodist Church
926 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

STAY CONNECTED:
Email: asburymail@asburyumcdc.org
Website: www.asburyumcdc.org
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This episode of the Asbury UMC DC Oral Histories podcast features Josephine Baker, a longtime educator in D.C. Public Schools and founding member of the D.C. Public Charter School Board.

Highlights: Segregated Washington; Howard University as cultural center; teaching mythology; charter school leadership; importance of Black churches.

This podcast was made possible by a grant from the DC Oral History Collaborative, a partnership of HumanitiesDC, Historical Society of DC, and the DC Public Library.

Host: Kelvin Childs
Interviewer: Pandit Wright
Editor/Producer: Adelle Banks
Music: “This Little Light of Mine” performed by E’s Jammy Jams

Asbury United Methodist Church
926 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

STAY CONNECTED:
Email: asburymail@asburyumcdc.org
Website: www.asburyumcdc.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/asburyumcdc/

This episode of the Asbury UMC DC Oral Histories podcast features Cardell Richardson, a retired Air Force colonel and an executive for more than a decade at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Highlights: Washington during and after 1968 riots; pursuing architecture; DC gentrification; race and the military; faithful church.

This podcast was made possible by a grant from the DC Oral History Collaborative, a partnership of HumanitiesDC, Historical Society of DC, and the DC Public Library.

Host: Kelvin Childs
Interviewer: Pandit Wright
Editor/Producer: Adelle Banks
Music: “This Little Light of Mine” performed by E’s Jammy Jams

Asbury United Methodist Church
926 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

STAY CONNECTED:
Email: asburymail@asburyumcdc.org
Website: www.asburyumcdc.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/asburyumcdc/

This episode of the Asbury UMC DC Oral Histories podcast features Jamesetta Doby, a longtime public educator in Washington, D.C.

Highlights: traveling to segregated Alabama for college; working as a demonstration teacher in D.C. Public Schools; shifting from segregated education; world traveler; choir member.

This podcast was made possible by a grant from the DC Oral History Collaborative, a partnership of HumanitiesDC, Historical Society of Washington, D.C. and the DC Public Library.

Host: Kelvin Childs
Interviewer: Adelle Banks
Editor/Producer: Adelle Banks
Music: “This Little Light of Mine” performed by E’s Jammy Jams

Asbury United Methodist Church
926 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

STAY CONNECTED:
Email: asburymail@asburyumcdc.org
Website: www.asburyumcdc.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/asburyumcdc/

This episode of the Asbury UMC DC Oral Histories podcast features Sandra King-Shaw, an employee of the Girl Scouts in the Washington, D.C., area for more than 25 years.

Highlights: latchkey child; becoming Howard University student; church’s role in social justice movements; membership in church’s first Girl Scout troop; roles as manager for Girl Scouts.

This podcast was made possible by a grant from the DC Oral History Collaborative, a partnership of HumanitiesDC, Historical Society of DC, and the DC Public Library.

Host: Kelvin Childs
Interviewer: Adelle Banks
Editor/Producer: Adelle Banks
Music: “This Little Light of Mine” performed by E’s Jammy Jams

Asbury United Methodist Church
926 11th Street NW
Washington, DC 20001

STAY CONNECTED:
Email: asburymail@asburyumcdc.org
Website: www.asburyumcdc.org
Facebook: www.facebook.com/asburyumcdc/