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Jackson, Bessie Interview 1, Bronx African American History Project
Jackson, Bessie Interview 1, Bronx African American History Project
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Bessie Jackson is the President of the Bronx branch of the Society for the Association for the study of African American Life and History, founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in 1915. Jackson came to the Bronx without any family relations in 1946 and finished High School. Jacksonthen returned to her home state ofAlabamato attend Alabama State College, but by 1949, she had returned to and settled in theBronx.
Jacksonwas born and raised on her family’s farm inDallas County,Alabama. She did not begin school until she was six years old, but illness also held her back in first grade. However,Jacksonalways …
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 …