The HistoryMakers® Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson




Overview of the Item

Repository: The HistoryMakers
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Interviewer: Larry Crowe
Videographer: Scott Stearns
Title:Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson
Dates:August 01, 2003
Abstract: (ABSTRACT)
Quantity: 5 Betacam SP videocassettes, 1 half-Hollinger box containing (NUMBER) folders of accompanying materials.
Identification: A2003.176
Language: The interviews and records are in English

Biographical Note

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 Black Rage. She then attended the University of California at Berkeley, earning a master's and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. While there, she was a pioneer in jury selection, and consulted the defense team during the trial of Angela Davis.

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.

Biographical Note by The HistoryMakers®


Scope and Contents

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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All use of materials must be pre-approved by The HistoryMakers® and appropriate credit must be given. All use credits must be pre-approved by The HistoryMakers®. Copyright is held by The HistoryMakers®.


Index Terms

This record series is indexed under the following controlled access terms.
Contributors:
Ashmore-Hudson, Anne, 1942-
Crowe, Larry
Stearns, Scott
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Family Names:
Ashmore-Hudson
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Document Types:
Video oral history interview
Titles:
The HistoryMakers® Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson


Related Material

Accompanying materials: Accompanying materials are filed in (NUMBER) folders in a half-Hollinger box and shelved at The HistoryMakers® Archives and Collection Library by accession number, separately from the videos.


Administrative Information

Location of Originals

Betacam, VHS, DVD and MPEG-1 access copies are held for in-house use at The HistoryMakers®; Betacam SP, VHS and DVD playback hardware is provided for in-house viewing of the access copies; MPEG-1 copies are searchable and viewable via a digital video database.

Preferred Citation

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.


Detailed Description/Tape Listings

Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson, Tape 1, August 01, 2003, TRT: 00:28:20.

Psychologist Anne Ashmore-Hudson shares her family background and memories of her childhood in Atlanta, Georgia. Ashmore-Hudson describes her parents and her brother, and talks about her nurturing neighborhood in Atlanta. She also recalls her and her brother's encounters with racism and her family's connection to slavery.



Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson, Tape 2, August 01, 2003, TRT: 00:28:42.

Psychologist Anne Ashmore-Hudson details her educational experience, from elementary school in Atlanta, Georgia, to her choice of colleges. Ashmore-Hudson contrasts the different kinds of school she attended--public school and Catholic school in Atlanta, and a private boarding school in North Carolina. Ashmore-Hudson then explains her decision to attend Spelman College and details her participation in student-led sit-in demonstrations at Atlanta's City Hall. She recalls her time spent in jail because of the protests and describes the black community's reactions to the student efforts.



Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson, Tape 3, August 01, 2003, TRT: 00:28:32.

Psychologist Anne Ashmore-Hudson continues to discusses her activism at Spelman College, and names influential professors from her undergraduate years. Ashmore-Hudson also talks about her time spent in Malawi as part of Spelman's Crossroads Africa program. Ashmore-Hudson then explains her interest in social work, talking about her masters study at Simmons College of Social Work and her social work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Ashmore-Hudson then explains her decision to earn a Ph.D. in psychology at University of California at Berkeley and then details her role in jury selection for Angela Davis's trial.



Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson, Tape 4, August 01, 2003, TRT: 00:29:36.

Psychologist Anne Ashmore-Hudson details her career as a psychologist, particularly her primary interests in research and practice. Ashmore-Hudson explains the topic of her dissertation, impact theory, and talks about the role that empathy and emotion play in human thought. Ashmore-Hudson also talks about racial identity and shares her hopes and concerns for the black community.



Video Oral History Interview with Anne Ashmore-Hudson, Tape 5, August 01, 2003, TRT: 00:31:31.

Psychologist Anne Ashmore-Hudson discusses her family, including her children, step-children, and her role in co-parenting two young, low-income children in Washington, D.C. Ashmore-Hudson comments on her divorce and remarks on divorce in today's society. She then reflects on effects of popular culture on the black community and emphasizes the impact that individuals can make, citing activist Robert Moses as an example.