![]() Yes, there's a "report abuse" button at the bottom of the page. (1 to 100 of 120 replies in Beware be advised!!!!) Privacy Issue-Google says it can see my full name on Flickr anyone able to see the new photoview page yet? Welcome to the Flickr Help Forum! Click here to get started and to read ourĪre my videos still uploading from iOS app? Flickr forever: Creating the safest most inclusive Discontinuation of the Photostream Edit Pages That was just incredible.This thread was closed automatically due to a lack of responses over the last month. So she was able to find us money to do even more. The state senator of Maryland, Gwendolyn Britt was one of those students. As a result, we told that history and made some great friends out there. We did an anniversary of when the park closed down because they refused to desegregate. So I got out there and was able to bring in-we did some research and we found some of those same students from Howard University who did the boycott in the park. ![]() And my mother and my father claimed they’d talked to me about it, but I didn’t recall that. So that was a part of the history maybe I’d sort of missed somewhere along the way. And I talk with my parents, because my parents were out there during those riots in Easter of ’66 when the park was shut down because African American students had decided to convene on the park and shut the park down if they weren't going to be allowed to go inside. And The Washingtonian Magazine does an article on me. Now you’re the site manager out there.” The next thing I know, it just blows up. “No, that’s the same park as African Americans we couldn’t visit. I know it had some issues with segregation out here.” It was my church that said, “Did you know the history of that park that you’re out there managing?”Īnd I was like, “Heard a little bit about it. Ironically over the last thirty-three years, my career has always been around African American history and civil rights. “It was a very easy fit because the Park Service allowed me to work in areas that I could be of benefit to others and to help tell American history and African American history. “I think it was just because they had never experienced having a Black kid in their classroom.” She left the Grand Canyon with a new perspective of the country and experience in practicing habits of respect for everyone that her parents had instilled in her.Įlder’s own career with the NPS began in the 1980s at Frederick Douglass National Historic Site. “I have to admit that the students weren’t very kind to me out there,” she recalls. “It’s funny to work and be assigned in these same parks that you actually grew up in.” Years later, in the same place where she watched her mother welcome crowds to Fort Dupont Park, she manages the same concert series, even producing the site’s first virtual concert series in 2020.Īs a sixth grader, Elder accompanied her mother to the Ranger Skills training at the Grand Canyon. “I’ve been in the Park Service since I was probably about seven years old, literally,” she said. ![]() Kym Elder recalls accompanying her mother on the National Mall for the U.S. Kym Elder on the Dentzel Carousel at Glen Echo Park. “We never told the community what to do,” she observed. On home turf at Fort Dupont, Short designed programs attuned to community needs. She joined the ranks of rangers after completing courses at American University and graduating from the rigorous Ranger Skills training at Albright Training Center at the Grand Canyon where she learned to rappel, conduct search and rescue, plan interpretive programs, and complete administrative duties. In the 1970s, the National Park Service began diversifying its work force, and Short decided to make good on the childhood dream. When she expressed a desire to become a ranger herself, she also remembered someone telling her: “Sweetheart, they don’t have colored people and they sure don’t have ladies.” I was so adamant about the fact that that was what I wanted to be when I grow up-I want a horse and a hat.” “All the kids were running to him, and I wanted to pat the horse. She vividly remembered meeting a mounted ranger. Lu Ann Jones with Tina Short during the oral history interview in 2014.Ī native of Washington, Tina Short spent her career at Fort Dupont Park, the very place she had attended a day camp and become a National Park Service Junior Ranger.
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