Boys learn to use hand tools at the Metropolitan Police's No. 10 Boy's Club which met at All Souls from 1937 to 1954. The club moved out after declining the church's request that it drop its whites only policy.
Executive Director Laurence C. Staples (front row at left) posed with All Souls children in front of Pierce Hall, 1930. Staples held the post from 1924 to 1959.
Project directors of the 2012 DC Community Heritage Project grants were interviewed for this film that was shown at a community showcase event. The interviews are supported with video clips, and photographs from the grant projects.
In 2012, the Soul of the City program was conducted in conjunction with the DC Department of Human Services. Young people participating in the DHS Summer Youth Employment Program visited museums, took walking tours, learned about video production,…