Psychologist Anne Ashmore-Hudson was born on June 23, 1942, in Atlanta, Georgia. While earning her B.A. degree at Spelman College in Atlanta, she was a student leader on campus during the Civil Rights Movement and a member of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. She was involved in the first sit-in in Atlanta and later spent four days in jail for protesting segregation. She also traveled to Africa with Crossroads Africa while at Spelman. Following her graduation, she earned a master's degree in psychiatric social work from Simmons College in Boston.
Following her graduation from Simmons, Ashmore-Hudson moved to San Francisco and worked with Bill Grier and Price Cobbs, authors of
A licensed clinical psychologist, Ashmore-Hudson founded and for eight years was president of Urban Psychological Associates in Brookline, Massachusetts, the first minority firm in the Northeast to contract with industry to provide employee assistance services. While with Urban Psychological Services, she produced forums on children's mental health and through the Boston Chapter of the Links she produced a video and forum on the images of black women in the media. She was a visiting Fellow of the W. E. B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University from 1985 to 1987, and has taught at San Francisco State University and Boston College. A valued member of academia, Ashmore-Hudson is a visiting scholar at the E. Franklin Frazier Institute for Social Research in the School of Social Work at Howard University, where she focuses on the link between present-day psychopathology and the psychological trauma of slavery.
Ashmore-Hudson serves on the boards of the Washington Ballet, Sasha Bruce Youth Works and is also president of the Potomac Chapter of Links. Her numerous honors include receiving the Clark-Atlanta University Civil Rights Award and being named YWCA Volunteer of the Year in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She has published articles in several magazines and journals and is a popular guest lecturer, panel participant and media consultant.
Ashmore-Hudson lives in Washington, D.C. She has been married since 1990 to James L. Hudson. She has one son, Alan Poussaint, and two stepdaughters, Ayanna and Julia Hudson. She and her husband have also co-parented two godchildren for the last eight years.
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This life oral history interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson was conducted by Larry Crowe on 2003-08-01 in Washington, D.C. and is recorded on 5 30-minute Betacam SP videocassettes. Access copies exist on Betacam SP, VHS, DVD and MPEG-1. The interview contains information on (COMPLETE ONE SENTENCE DESCRIPTION OF INTERVIEW). Accompanying materials in the collection include Anne Ashmore-Hudson's correspondence with The HistoryMakers® related to the interview; a copy of the signed release form and the production report; the biographical information used by the interviewer to prepare for the interview (DETAILS); paper copies of the interview transcripts, 3 1/2" floppy disks with electronic copies of the transcripts; selected quotes for video clips; photocopies of photographs captured on video; XML files with metadata created in editing and cataloguing the interview for The HistoryMakers Digital Video Library; and paper copies of these XML files.
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The HistoryMakers® Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson, August 01, 2003. The HistoryMakers® African American Video Oral History Collection, 1900 S. Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois.