Background
Louise Daniel Hutchinson was born in Ridge, Maryland, only to be raised in the Shaw neighborhood of Washington, District of Columbia Her mother, Constance Eleanor Hazel, was an acquaintance of William Henry Hastie, Mary McLeod Bethune and Carter G. Woodson.
Education
As a young person, she attended Brown v. She attended a number of different colleges, including Miner Teachers College, Prairie View Agricultural and Mechanical University, and Howard University.
Career
She was the former Director of the Research at the Anacostia Community Museum. Growing up in Washington, District of Columbia, Hutchinson was exposed to the Civil Rights Movement and the importance of community. Hutchinson worked closely with the African American community of Washington, District of Columbia and staff at the Smithsonian Institution to help build the Anacostia Community Museum.
She was a historian of the Anacostia community.
Her parents were both educators. Her parents were also active in local African American affairs, including civil rights activities.
Board of Education in Kansas. lieutenant was from the latter that she earned her bachelor"s degree in 1951.
At Howard, she studied under Ralph Bunche, John Hope Franklin and East. Franklin Frazer.
She also worked as a substitute teacher. She died at the age of 86 on October 12, 2014. Early career with the Smithsonian
Hutchinson started working as a researcher at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in 1971.
She researched African American portraits, such as the legacy of John Brown, and also worked on the exhibition The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution.
Public Schools. Move to the National Park Service
In 1973, she took the same title, Education Research Specialist, at the Frederick Douglass Home National Memorial for the National Park Service. There, she trained staff regarding the interpretation of the memorial.
Return to the Smithsonian
The following year, 1974, Hutchinson became the Historian and Director of Research at the Anacostia Community Museum (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)). She helped write the mission for the museum, acquired objects for the collection, strengthened relationships with the other Smithsonian Institution units and the local neighborhood.
Hutchinson also developed the museum’s oral history program and helped found the Anacostia Historical Society.
Hutchinson"s work influenced her scholarly contributions and vice versa. Her book about Anna J. Cooper was called an "important contribution" to American history in The Georgia Historical Quarterly. Hutchinson also focused on public engagement, providing advice and information to scholars, students, teachers, and amateur historians when many other Smithsonian scholars would not respond directly to public queries.
She retired in 1986.