The Education and Development Department was established in 1967 as one of the two original branches of the Museum. Its early responsibilities focused on interpreting the Museum's exhibitions to the public. However, as the Museum established itself, the Department reached beyond this early mandate and became an active member of the Anacostia community. Its accomplishments included the development of educational outreach services which used ethnic-based materials; the creation in July 1969 of a Mobile Division to facilitate the Museum's involvement in the community; the formation of a Youth Advisory Council and other cultural arts groups; and the establishment of a Children's Room in February 1972. Renamed the Education Department by 1973, it also played a leading role in developing programs at the Museum which focused on urban problems and the concerns of incarcerated community members.

Zora B. Martin-Felton joined the Museum at its founding as Program Director, and by 1971 was named Supervisory Program Manager of the Education and Development Department. In 1979 she became an Education Specialist, and in 1989 was referred to as Chief of the Education Department. Fletcher A. Smith came to the Museum in July 1969 as the Coordinator of the new Mobile Division. He later took the title of Program Manager of the Division, which was renamed the Outreach Services Branch. The Branch was terminated after Smith's resignation in September 1978.

Box 1 of 17

• Program Committee, 1968-1969
• Special Campaign Invitations, Fund-raisers
• Cedar Lane Unitarian Summer Day Camp, July 1969
• Correspondence (Zora Martin), 1974
• Suggestion Box, 1973-1975
• Neighborhood Advisory Committee, 1967-1972
• Carver Museum
• Planning Notes for Exhibits Design and Production Lab, 1971-1973
• Memoranda and Correspondence, 1976
• Friends of the ANM, 1967
• Exhibit, Education, and Research Committee, 1973
• Neighborhood Advisory Committee, Membership Acknowledgment Letter
• Campaign Correspondence, 1968
• Fund Raising Campaign, 1970
• Fund Raising, 1969-1970
• Clay Class
• Donations from SI Gift Shops, 1968
• Program Committee, 1969-1970
• Correspondence, 1975
• Fund Raising Campaign, Bornstein Letter
• Inner Voices, Outside Chapter, 1971
• Memoranda and Announcements, 1973-1974
• Z.M. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1974-1976
• Suggestion Box, 1968-1972
• Summer 1969
• Neighborhood Advisory Committee, 1970
• Exhibits Committee, 1968
• Festival of the Arts, 1975
• Program, 1971-1974
• Staff, 1971-1974
• Festival of the Arts, 1971
• Trailblazers, 1967-1968
• Survey on Presentation on Nassau and the Bahamas, 1973
• Volunteers
• Suggestion Box, 1975
• Festival of the Arts (Calendars), 1968
• Junior League, 1973
• SI Classes - 3rd Quarter, 1968
• Z.M. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1973
• Exhibit Committee, 1967
• Festival of the Arts, 1972
• Society for Preservation of Weeksville, 1972
• Survey Instrument, Robert Cannady, Jr.
• Urban Ecology, 1970
• Tour Group/Teachers' Brochures, 1969
• ANM Volunteer Appreciation Forms
• Correspondence, 1972
• Country Store, 1967-1968

Box 2 of 17

• Center for Inquiry and Discovery, 1976
• Correspondence, 1968
• Festival of the Arts, 1976
• Festival of the Arts, 1973
• Correspondence, undated
• Correspondence, 1969
• Correspondence, 1971
• Outgoing Correspondence and Memoranda, 1968
• Proposals/Funding, 1974
• Memoranda and Announcements, 1967-1972
• Z. Martin, Outgoing Memoranda, 1971
• Z. Martin, Outgoing Memoranda, 1972
• Z. Martin, Incoming Correspondence, 1967-1968
• Z. Martin, Outgoing Memoranda, 1969
• Z. Martin, Outgoing Memoranda, 1970
• Staff Meeting Minutes, 1968
• Festival of the Arts, 1969
• Incoming Correspondence, 1973
• Z. Martin, Incoming Correspondence, 1973
• Correspondence, 1970
• Junior League Proposal, 1969-1970
• Festival of the Arts, 1974
• Correspondence, 1967
• Z. Martin, Outgoing Memoranda, 1967
• Sixth Anniversary

Box 3 of 17

• Zora Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1980
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1980 (2 folders)
• Marshall Jackson, Incoming Correspondence, 1980
• Schroder Cherry, Incoming Correspondence, 1979-1980
• S. Cherry, Outgoing Correspondence, 1980
• S. Cherry, Outgoing Correspondence, 1979
• M. Jackson, Incoming Correspondence, 1979
• Outreach Correspondence, 1980-1982
• S. Cherry, Incoming Correspondence, 1980-1982
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1979
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1979 (4 folders)
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1978
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1977
• General Outgoing Correspondence, 1978
• Fletcher Smith, Outgoing Correspondence, 1978
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1978 (3 folders)
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1977
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1976

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• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1985
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1984 (2 folders)
• Frances Webb, Incoming Correspondence, 1984
• Robert Hall, Incoming Correspondence, 1984
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1983 (2 folders)
• F. Webb, Incoming Correspondence, 1983
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1983 (2 folders)
• F. Webb, Outgoing Correspondence, 1983-1984
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1982
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1982
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1981
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1981 (2 folders)

Box 5 of 17

• Zora Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1980
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1980 (2 folders)
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1980-1981
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1979 (2 folders)
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1979
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1978 (2 folders)
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1978
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1977
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1977 (2 folders)
• Frances Webb, Incoming Correspondence, 1985
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Correspondence, 1985
• Robert Hall, Outgoing Correspondence, 1985
• F. Webb, Outgoing Correspondence, 1985
• Z. Felton, Incoming Correspondence, 1985

Box 6 of 17

• Zora Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1985
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1984-1985
• Frances Webb, Outgoing Memoranda, 1986
• F. Webb, Outgoing Memoranda, 1983-1984
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1984
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1983 (2 folders)
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1983
• F. Webb, Incoming Memoranda, 1983
• Schroder Cherry, Incoming Memoranda, 1982
• S. Cherry, Outgoing Memoranda, 1982
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1982 (3 folders)
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1982
• Z. Felton, Outgoing Memoranda, 1981 (2 folders)
• Z. Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1981
• S. Cherry, Outgoing Memoranda, 1980-1982
• S. Cherry, Incoming Memoranda, 1980

Box 7 of 17

• Zora Felton, Incoming Memoranda, 1984-1985
• Frances Webb, Incoming Memoranda, 1985
• Robert Hall, Incoming Memoranda, 1985
• Robert Hall, Outgoing Memoranda, 1985
• Budget Statement and Projections, 1981
• Scripts
• Black Heritage Puppets, 1981
• Office of Elementary and Secondary Education Memoranda, 1977-1979
• Summer Film Festival Proposal, 1980
• Summer Course for Credit, 1978
• Books and Pamphlets - Various Exhibits
• Black History Month Material, 1983
• Anacostia Student Exhibition Project, 1982
• OESE Intern Program, 1982
• Articles on St. Elizabeth's Hospital
• Z. Felton Newspaper Clippings
• Outreach Program List
• Mini Exhibit Checklist
• Mailing/Distribution Lists
• Safety Checklist
• Minority Women Survey Sheets, 1979
• Oral/Local History & Research Article, 1979
• Museum Education Roundtable, 1978
• Monthly Program Reports, 1977
• Teacher Workshop Materials, 1985
• Teacher Workshop Questionnaires
• Summer Creative Writing Workshop, 1983
• Eta Phi Sigma Sorority Exhibit, 1984
• Children of South Africa Exhibit Materials
• Harlem Renaissance Exhibit Proposal
• Disabled Access, 1978-1979
• SI Council Meeting Report, May 1977
• Collaborative Education Committee, 1982-1983
• Ed Dwight Sculpture Show, 1983
• Education Dept. Programs and Services
• Anna J. Cooper Simplified Labels, 1980-1981
• African Art File, 1981
• Subscriptions for Magazines and Books
• Kids on the Block Puppets
• Proposal for Children's Exhibit
• Participant Lists for Black History Month Programs
• World Health Organization Cockroach Report, Roaches/Rats Exhibit

Box 8 of 17

• DCPS Gifted and Talented Program Evaluations, 1983
• Shirley Chisholm Lecture, 1976
• ANM General Store
• Blacks in Westward Movement Teacher's Handbook
• Staff and Performer Publications and Publicity
• Combined Federal Campaign Report, 1982
• Museum Education Roundtable, 1982-1984 (2 folders)
• Children's Room: Craft Ideas, Recipes, etc.
• Youth Advisory Committee
• Audio Tape and Exhibit Scripts
• Out of Africa Audio Tape and Exhibit Scripts
• Workshop and Demonstration Reservations
• Summer Workshop, 1977 (2 folders)
• UPO Grandparents' Workshop Evaluation, 1977
• Region I Staff Development, 1977-1978
• Teacher Training Workshops, 1975-1977 (3 folders)
• "Little People," 1974
• Zora Felton Supervisory Meeting Minutes and Reports, 1973-1974
• Mobile Division, 1969-1977 (2 folders)
• Youth Advisory Council, 1969-1974 (4 folders)
• Teaching Resources

Box 9 of 17

• Tour Packet, 1984-1985
• William Marshall Performance, 1986
• Harlem Renaissance Exhibit Scripts (7 folders)
• Children's Exhibit Proposal: "Anacostia As It Was," 1982 (2 folders)
• Exhibit Scripts (SITES), 1981
• "Frederick Douglass Years" News Clippings
• Teacher's Workshops, 1986
• "Images: Black and White"
• Handicapped Materials, 1984
• Teachers Workshop for Gifted and Talented Coordinators, 1983
• Black History Month Workshop, 1985
• "Renaissance" Teachers Course for Credit, 1986
• Teacher Training (Gettysburg), 1985
• Kwanzaa Workshop, 1986
• Kwanzaa Workshop for Teachers, 1985
• Tri-Museum Family Day, 1986
• Tri-Museum Family Day, 1985-1986
• D.C. Humanities Council Proposal, 1986
• Neighborhood Advisory Committee Minutes, 1967-1968
• Kwanzaa booklet comments and feedback, 1973
• Young Audiences Programs, 1986
• National History Day, 1986
• Summer Youth Employment Program, 1982
• "Children of South Africa" Photo Exhibit
• Listing of Afro-American Studies Chairpersons/Directors, 1979
• Northeast Museums Conference, 1984
• Press/News Releases, 1983
• African American Museums Association, 1984
• Aboriginal Artists of Australia, 1980
• African Influence on Afro-American Artists (Exhibit Proposal), 1979
• Kwanzaa
• African Recipes
• African Art Objects for Children's Room
• Docent Evaluation Sheets
• "Green Hornet" (SI Staff Handbook)

Box 10 of 17

• Research File: School Integration
• "Black Women" Exhibit Script
• "Mary McLeod Bethune and Roosevelt's `Black Cabinet'," 1982
• "Science: Man's Greatest Adventure," 1971
• Research Materials on Proposed Exhibit: "Anacostia As It Was: Black Life in the 1800s," 1983
• Jamaica Exhibit
• Bethune Exhibit Script, 1981
• Pinpoints, Inc. Musical on Anna J. Cooper Life
• Black Man in Science Exhibit, 1980
• "Black Women" Exhibit Script, 1977
• D.C. Art Association Show, 1970
• African Exhibition II, 1973
• "This Is Africa," 1968

Box 11 of 17

• Oral Histories and A.J.C. Scripts, 1975
• Barnett-Aden Collection, 1974 (2 folders)
• "The Message Makers," 1974 (2 folders)
• Script Writing, 1975
• D.C. Art Association Show, 1972
• "Evolution of a Community," 1972 (3 folders)
• Black Scientists, 1970-1971 (3 folders)
• "Accent," 1971
• D.C. Art Association Annual Exhibit, 1971
• Martin Luther King Exhibit, 1971
• Black Patriots, 1970
• Lorton Reformatory, 1970 (3 folders)
• "The Rat: Man's Invited Affliction," 1969 (2 folders)
• Negro History Exhibit, 1969
• "This Thing Called Jazz," 1968
• Museum Opening, 1967

Box 12 of 17

• "The Renaissance: Black Arts of the Twenties," 1985 (4 folders)
• "Through Their Eyes: The Art of Lou and Di Stovall" (3 folders)
• "Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds," 1984-1985
• Robinson/Lebby Art Show
• "Portraits In Black," Harmon Collection, 1983
• Children's Exhibit: "Anacostia As It Was..." Material
• "Black Wings," 1984

Box 13 of 17

• "Portraits in Black," 1983
• "Black Wings: The American Black in Aviation," 1984 (4 folders)
• Black Women in the `80's
• "Out of Africa," 1979 (6 folders)
• "Anna J. Cooper," 1978-1979 (2 folders)
• Africa: Kingdoms to Colonization
• D.C. Art Association, 1978
• "Harlem Renaissance"
• Inventory (Fletcher Smith), 1978
• Mini Exhibits
• Exhibit Script: "Frederick Douglass Years" (Mobile)
• Africans and Afro-Americans: Response and Resistance
• "Anacostia Story," 1977 (2 folders)
• Anacostia Exhibit Part II
• "Black Women: Achievements Against the Odds," 1976 (2 folders)
• "Frederick Douglass Years"

Box 14 of 17

• Requisition/Duplication Forms, 1985 (2 folders)
• Requisitions, Photo Work Orders, 1985
• Time Cards, FY 1985
• Requisitions, SF-44s, FY 1986
• Memo to FW, FY 1986
• Corr from RH, FY 1986
• Memo to RH, FY 1986
• Corr to FW, FY 1986
• Memo to ZMF, FY 1986
• Corr to ZMF, FY 1986
• Requisitions, SI-4s, FY 1986
• Budget, FY 1986
• Memo from ZMF, FY 1986
• Corr to RH, FY 1986
• Corr from FW, FY 1986
• Memo from Frances Webb, 1985
• Corr from ZMF, FY 1986
• Memo from RH, FY 1986
• Corr to ZMF, FY 1986

Box 15 of 17

• Frederick Douglass Years Current Materials
• Region I Teacher Training: 1975-1976
• Peer Teachers Evaluation Sheets - 3/2/79
• (In-School) Festival of the Arts Performances, 1977
• Teacher Training: Region I Meetings - 1976-1977
• Title I, Region I T/T 5/19 and 5/20/80
• Oakcrest Elementary School (P.G.Co.) - African Exchange and Kwanzaa 11/28/90
• Staff Development Day Schedule 1979
• Prince George's County Social Studies Teachers (Staff Development - Africa) 11/1/79
• Montgomery County H.R. 18 Classes - April 1979
• Montgomery County Quarterly Integrated Education (QIE) Teacher Specialists Workshop - 9/21/79
• Teacher Training Region A CBC Chairpersons 12/13/82; Gifted and Talented Coordinators 12/14/82
• Region A - "How to Turn..." Teacher/Training 3/12/81
• Evaluations: "How to Turn Your Classroom into a Museum"
• Region I - Teacher Training for Title I Teachers 5/19/80 and 5/20/80
• Teacher Training: "How and Why" Workshop 2/6/80
• UDC Media Workshop - January 1980
• Q.I.E. Teacher Workshop - 9/79
• Anacostia Pre-School Teachers/Parents Workshop on "Africa..." and Kwanzaa
• Teacher Training: OESE Group (Metropolitan Washington) - "Out of Africa" - July 12, 1979
• Training: Met. Girl Scouts and Arlington, VA, Rec. Dept. 7/9/79 and 7/19/79
• Evaluations: Museum-School Relations - Office of Museum Programs - SI 3/15/79
• Two-W Teachers (DCPS) Workshop Evaluation 3/15/79
• City-Wide Peer Teachers Workshop 12/1/78
• Region I Staff Development: "Museum Workshop" - 10/30/78
• SI-OESE Teacher Training Workshops 1977
• Budget FY 1987
• Budget FY 1986 and (FY 86 Budget Update/Planning Statement)
• Budget FY 1985
• Budget FY 1984
• Education Development Five-Year Planning Proposal - 1/16/78
• Five-Year Planning FY 1981-1985
• Educators' Coordinators Meetings 1986-1987
• School Without Walls 1988-1989
• Mid-Atlantic Museums Association
• Museum Education: SI Council Meetings 10/85
• Smithsonian Committee for Wider Audience
• Education Department Evaluation
• Five-Year Planning Statement - Education Department 1983
• Budget FY 1983
• Lunch Bag Forum - Education Department 1983

Box 16 of 17

• Anacostia Museum Statistical Records 1983-1988
• Correspondence to Robert Hall 1988
• Volunteers 1987-1988
• Correspondence to Zora Martin-Felton 1986-1987
• Statistics - Museum Visitorship 1976-1977
• Correspondence to Zora Martin-Felton FY 1987
• Correspondence from Zora Martin-Felton FY 1987
• Memorandums from Zora Martin-Felton FY 1987
• Memorandums from Frances Webb FY 1987
• Memorandums from Robert Hall FY 1987
• Correspondence from Robert Hall FY 1987
• Correspondence to Frances Webb FY 1987
• Correspondence from Frances Webb FY 1987
• Memorandums to Zora Martin-Felton FY 1987
• Kwanzaa Workshop Anacostia Museum 12/12/87
• Education and Museum Policymaking by Schroeder Cherry 5/5/86
• Education Department Minutes 1986
• Comments - Cassette Tape Evaluations 1986
• Wider Opportunities for Women, Inc. Intern Ms. Nkereuwen Iniang 4/85
• SI: Internal Control Review 1984
• OESE Interns 1984
• Volunteer-Run After-School Art Program Kathleen Zielinski and JoNell Rice 1984
• Volunteers 1983
• Internship Applications/Applicants 1983
• Inventory - Education Department, Zora Felton 1981-1982
• Evaluation Forms

Box 17 of 17

• Zora Felton's Activities FY 1988
• Exhibit Schedule FY 1988
• Zora Felton's Activities FY 1988-1989
• 1987 Correspondence to Zora Felton 7/87-11/87
• Outreach - 1987 (Summer) J. Pass
• Education Department Staff Meetings 1986
• Teacher Seminars/Workshops/Previews FY 1985
• FY 1983 Five-Year Planning Statement
• FY 1983
• Outreach 1981-1983
• Planning Statement, etc. - April 12, 1984
• Budget Statement: FY 1984-1989
• FY 1981 Budget: Objectives, Planned Expenditures and Support Requirements
• Education Department Budget 1981
• Outreach 1981
• Budget FY 1980
• Outreach 1980
• Cafritz-Smithsonian Education Busing Program 1979-1980
• Five-Year Plan 1/78
• Budget FY 1978
• Outreach Programs 1978-1979
• Budget: 1977 FY 1979
• Budget: FY 1977
• New Anacostia Museum Annex/Demographics on AM as of 1977
• Budget: FY 1976
• Summer Art Workshop for Children by Bronwyn Jones (D.C. Public School Teacher) 1976
• Anacostia Center for Education - Planning Meeting at Malcolm X (1976)
• Budget: FY 1975
• Budget Justification: 1975
• 1969-1975: Budgets, Narratives, Proposals
• Budget FY 1969-1975
• African American Museums Association
• "Anna J. Cooper," Exhibition Programs and Commissioned Play
• Colonial Williamsburg Black Perspective: Slide Narration and Research Materials
• Learning Activity Center Evaluation Sheets Plus Master List
• OESE Teacher Intern Program and High School