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Brathwaite, Kwame, Bronx African American History Project
Brathwaite, Kwame, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
112th interview of the Bronx African American History Project
Interviewers: Dr. Mark Naison, Maxine Gordon
Interviewee: Kwame Brathwaite
The interview took place May 17, 2002
Summarized by Concetta Gleason 11-29-06
Kwame Brathwaite, a longtime activist, photographer and expert on the history of jazz in NYC was originally born in Harlem, and his family moved to the Bronx in 1943 when he was five years old. Brathwaite's parents are both from Barbados, but they met in Brooklyn. His father was a tailor who owned several Dry Cleaning businesses, which kept him constantly busy, and his mother was a homemaker who …